Re-accelerated radioactive ions beams of He from the SPIRAL facility at GANIL have been used to perform the first experimental investigations at energies around the Coulomb barrier of fusion and direct reactions with the most neutron rich He. Two experiments (in the He+Cu and He+Au systems) have been performed, using the complementarity of in-beam and off-beam techniques, to measure integral an...

The acrosome reaction is a unique event in the lifespan of sperm characterized by the exocytosis of the acrosomal content and the release of hybrid vesicles formed by patches of the outer acrosomal membrane and the plasma membrane. This unique regulated exocytosis is mediated by essentially the same membrane fusion machinery present in neuroendocrine cells. However, whereas secretion in neuroen...

Images of the same scene obtained from visual and thermal camera present complementary information to each other, as both the cameras capture the images following different phenomenon. Thus prominent features of the images are combined into a single image that is suitable for human and machine perception. In this paper pixel level image fusion using weighted average and channel-based color fusi...

The combined dinuclear system (DNS) and statistical model implanted in KEWPIE2 have been used to study the prospects for synthesis of a superheavy element (SHE) with $Z=119$ $^{54}$Cr+$^{243}$Am fusion reaction. method calculation has verified by description evaporation residue cross sections measured $^{48}$Ca+$^{243}$Am calculated results partial total complete fusion, quasifission, fast fiss...

Deuteron implantation experiments on Ti and Pd foils have been made for the examination of the “cold” deuteron fusion reaction. In the center of a target chamber fitted to a 300 keV deuteron accelerator, a Ti or Pd foil sample was set to face toward 3 nsec pulsed deuteron beams collimated with a 3 mm diameter aperture. A Si-SSD was placed behind the foil to detect high energy charged particles ...

In the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, vacuoles are inherited by the projection of vesicles and tubules from the mother-cell vacuole into the growing daughter cell during the S phase. These vesicles then fuse and form the daughter-cell organelle. We have described previously in vitro reactions of the formation of vacuole-derived segregation structures and of vacuole-vacuole fusion. Homo...

Previous reports have indicated that the entry of Semliki Forest virus (SFV) into cells depends on a membrane fusion reaction catalyzed by the viral spike glycoproteins and triggered by the low pH prevailing in the endosomal compartment. In this study the in vitro pH-dependent fusion of SFV with nuclease-filled liposomes has been used to select for a new class of virus mutants that have a pH-co...

This work demonstrates a sustainable nuclear fusion reaction of hydrogen using a clay flower port as a reactor vessel. Our novel approach uses a “charge mirror” that reduces the electromagnetic repulsion between nuclei enough to allow fusion initiation at room temperature. The device can also be used as a secure error-free transgalactic communications pipe with zero latency and near infinite ba...