We present a facile method for the production of fluorescent diamond nanocrystals (DNCs) of different sizes and efficiently quantify the concentration of emitting defect color centers (DCCs) of each DNC size. We prepared the DNCs by ball-milling commercially available micrometer-sized synthetic (high pressure, high temperature (HPHT)) diamonds and then separated the as-produced DNCs by density ...

The data breach of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) during the U.S. presidential election of 2016 is multi-faceted and has wide ranging implications. The discourse of “cybersecurity” is increasingly thought of through the lens of states and other powerful actors like large corporations, as a conflict or war that is waged by specialized combatants while civilians are relegated to the side...

The accumulation of cargo (tau, amyloid precursor protein, neurofilaments etc.) in neurons is a hallmark of various neurodegenerative diseases while we have only little knowledge how axonal transport is regulated. Kinesin-3 UNC-104(KIF1A) is the major transporter of synaptic vesicles and recent reports suggest that a cargo itself can affect the motor's activity. Inspecting an interactome map, w...

Design of recommender system following the latent factor model is widely cast as a matrix factorization problem yielding a rating matrix, which is a product of a dense user and a dense item factor matrices. A dense user factor matrix is a credible assumption as all users are expected to have some degree of affinity towards all the latent factors. However, for items it’s not a reasonable supposi...

Neural control of optomotor responses in Locusta migratoria was studied using a newly developed preparation of intact, tethered, flying locusts. The preparation could perform normal flight behaviour and head movements while neurones in the neck connectives were recorded and stimulated intracellularly. Course deviations simulated by an artificial horizon caused optomotor reactions, e.g. steering...

Context. Molecular line surveys are among the main tools to probe structure and physical conditions in protoplanetary disks (PPDs), birthplace of planets. The large radial vertical temperature as well density gradients these PPDs lead a complex chemical composition, making chemistry an important step understand variety planetary systems. Aims. We aimed study content disk surrounding GG Tau A, w...

The survey conducted in Cuyahoga County, Ohio,1 shows that the single most important cause of voters casting a provisional ballot in the county in the November 2004 election was residential mobility. About 60 percent of the provisional ballots were cast by those who either were voting in Ohio for the first time or who had previously voted in Ohio but had since moved. Among those who had previou...

The mechanosensory neuron that innervates the anteronotopleural bristle of Drosophila melanogaster responds with a burst of action potentials to deflection of the bristle towards the body wall. The decay of the firing rate upon sustained deflection is typical of a slowly adapting mechanosensory neuron. Upon repeated monotonous stimulation, the response decreases and the kinetics of adaptation c...