Radial displacement of field reversed configuration (FRC) plasma was observed in translation experiments using computer tomography (CT) at two different cross sections in the FIX machine. Two sets of CT devices were installed at the upstream and downstream sides of the confinement chamber. Each CT device has three arrays of detectors sensitive to the near-infrared radiation. The Fourier-Bessel ...

Controlling chemical reactions by the supramolecular confinement effects of nanopores has attracted great attention. Here we show that open metal sites in porous coordination frameworks can constitute more powerful and strict templates for precision syntheses. A Fe(III) dicarboxylate framework functionalized with triangularly arranged metal sites is used to accomplish [2+2+2] cyclotrimerization...

The purpose of this research was to evaluate the nonlinear dynamic response of rigid and semi-rigid steel frames under Far-Fault Earthquake Records. Accordingly, the fragility curve of the moment frames with rigid and semi-rigid connections was determined. Considering the analytical knowledge of structures in the past, the analysis and design of steel frames based on the assumptions of rigid or...

We present an extension of a smoothing approach to Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). We have previously introduced Square-Root SAM, a Smoothing and Mapping approach to SLAM based on Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) optimization. It iteratively finds the optimal nonlinear least squares solution (ML), where one iteration comprises of a linearization step, a matrix factorization, and a backsub...

Background: Pilot and large-scale production of recombinant proteins requires the presence of stable clones capable of producing large quantities of recombinant proteins. Not only the process of selecting stable clones is time consuming, but also the continuous culturing of clones in large-scale production may cause loss of incoming plasmid and recombinant genes. Thus, considering the advanceme...

Acknowledgments We dedicate this work to the late Andrew Spielman, our coauthor and beloved mentor. We thank J. Rivero, I. Pérez, M. Méndez, I. Matheus, M. Aguiar de Bracho, I. Carreño, J.M. Hernández, A. Nagy, A. Suarez, N. Moncada, M. Kilpatrick, E. Rodriguez, E. Marquez, E. Marian, B. Hernández; C. Rivero-Blanco, M. Azar, J. Rodriguez, H. Montañez, F. Alfonzo, and G. Rangel for their contrib...

This study aimed to clarify the relationship between the mechanical environment at the fracture site and endogenous fibroblast growth factor-2 (FGF-2). We compared two types of fracture healing with different callus formations and cellular events using MouseFix(TM) plate fixation systems for murine fracture models. Left femoral fractures were induced in 72 ten-week-old mice and then fixed with ...

let $x$ be a sufficiently nice scheme. we survey some recent progress on dualizing complexes. it turns out that a complex in $kinj x$ is dualizing if and only if tensor product with it induces an equivalence of categories from murfet's new category $kmpr x$ to the category $kinj x$. in these terms, it becomes interesting to wonder how to glue such equivalences.