Nanosilver of nanometer-sized silver (Ag+) particles (2-5 nm diam) are used in various applications as an anti-microbial. Boric acid (H3BO3) is water soluble (pH=7). Boric acid is ethylene synthese inhibitor and reduce ethylene production through reducing the ACC synthase and ACC oxidase delays senescence of flower. In this study of different concentrations of boric acid and nano-silver was eva...

introduction studying motility of biological objects is an important parameter in many biomedical processes. therefore, automated analyzing methods via microscopic videos are becoming an important step in recent researches. materials and methods in the proposed method of this article, a hypothesis testing function is defined to separate biological particles from artifact and noise in captured v...

This paper describes the use of spatially-sparse inputs to influence global changes in the behavior of Dynamic Movement Primitives (DMPs). The dynamics of DMPs are analyzed through the framework of contraction theory as networked hierarchies of contracting or transversely contracting systems. Within this framework, sparsely-inhibited rhythmic DMPs (SI-RDMPs) are introduced to both inhibit or en...

The beautiful structural colors in bird feathers are some of the brightest colors in nature, and some of these colors are created by arrays of melanin granules that act as both structural colors and scattering absorbers. Inspired by the color of bird feathers, high-visibility structural colors have been created by altering four variables: size, blackness, refractive index, and arrangement of th...

For a fixed simple curve in a nonautonomous flow, the fluxing index of a passively-advected Lagrangian particle is the total number of times it goes across the curve within a given time interval. Such indices naturally induce flux sets, equivalence classes of the particles at the initial time. This line of research mainly concerns donating regions, the explicit construction of the flux sets fro...

Thermodenuding particles can provide insights into aerosol composition and may be a way to create particles in laboratory chambers that better mimic the atmosphere. The relative volatility of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) was investigated by evaporating organics from the particles using a thermodenuder (TD) at temperatures between ∼ 60 and 100 C. Volatility was influenced by the parent hydroc...

Let T1 and T2 be two countable strongly minimal theories with the DMP whose common theory is the theory of vector spaces over a fixed finite field. We show that T1 ∪ T2 has a strongly minimal completion.

Learning to perform complex tasks out of a sequence of simple small demonstrations is a key ability for more flexible robots. In this paper, we present a system that allows for the acquisition of such task executions based on dynamical movement primitives (DMPs). DMPs are a successful approach to encode and generalize robot movements. However, current applications involving DMPs mainly explore ...