The fatty acid compositions of 5 freshwater heterotrophic flagellates were studied using laboratory cultures. The flagellates Bodo saltans, Paraphysomonas vestita, Spumella pudica, Polytoma uvella and Chilomonas paramecium were cultured on Synura medium enriched either with Régilait milk powder (MP medium; Régilait, St Martin Roche, France) or with Tabimin dry fish food (DFF medium; Tetra, Mell...

Apoptotic DNA fragmentation is mediated by a caspase-activated DNA fragmentation factor (DFF)40. Expression and folding of DFF40 require the presence of DFF45, which also acts as a nuclease inhibitor before DFF40 activation by execution caspases. The N-terminal domains (NTDs) of both proteins are homologous, and their interaction plays a key role in the proper functioning of this two-component ...

where k1, k2 > 0 are positive constants, Ω ⊂ R is a bounded domain with a smooth boundary ∂Ω and V (u, v) ∈ C(R,R). We refer to [CdFM], [CM], [dFF], [dFM] and [HvV] for variational study of such elliptic systems. However, it seems that the multiplicity of positive solutions for such elliptic systems is not well studied. Here, we study a case related to some models (with diffusion) in mathematic...

Previous work on radiation hardening has focused on designing memory elements to tolerate direct hits by high energy particles. The study of latch designs to tolerate high energy particle induced transient pulses arising in the combinational part of the circuit and traveling to the inputs of DFFs has been ignored. In this work, we look at ways to slow down the input stage of latches by insertin...

Errors resulting from magnification variations of optical system are largely generated in threemensional shape measurements based on depth-from-focus. Focus measures are wrongly or ambiguously tracted, due to the variations. In this paper, a DFF-based methodology considering these magnification riations is proposed to make accurate measurements in surface morphology with high depth discontinuit...

In this paper the low energy limit of the BESS model is studied in a systematic way. The method consists in eliminating the heavy vector field, by use of its classical equations of motion, in the infinite mass limit. After the elimination of the heavy degrees of freedom we get additional terms to the Standard Model lagrangian. After a finite renormalization of the ordinary gauge bosons wave fun...

Isolation and enumeration of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) as cancer biomarkers have been challenging due to their extremely low abundance in blood. This paper reports an ultra high-throughput technique for CTCs isolation from blood using the inherent Dean vortex flows present in curvilinear channels, aptly termed Dean Flow Fractionation (DFF). Using a 2-inlet 2-outlet spiral microchannel, the...