Description 1620 amino acids; 177 kDa; after glycosylation, produces a 200 kDa mature glycoprotein; composed of an extracellular domain, a transmembrane domain, a tyrosine kinase domain, and an intracytoplasmic domain in C-term; dimerization. Expression Is tissue specific; mainly in: brain, gut and testis; not in the lymphocytes. Localisation Cell membrane. Function Membrane associated tyrosine...

A broadband reflector with a reflectance up to 97.8% over 144 nm spectral range from 1476 1620 is proposed by comprising double-layer subwavelength gratings one grating layer embedded in SiO2 layer. An analysis of the resonance leaky modes overlapping shows physical mechanism wide broad high-reflectivity band. The tolerance structural parameter analyzed and variation bandwidth explained combini...

English settlers to the New World believed that the climate of Newfoundland would be moderate, New England would be warm, and Virginia would be like southern Spain. They based these beliefs on the seemingly commonsense view that climate is much the same at any given latitude around the globe. What is striking is that these views persisted despite mounting evidence to the contrary. As late as 16...

A novel structure that converts wasted backward amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) to seed photons for the amplifier stage is suggested for a high-power erbium-doped fiber (EDF) broadband source. A considerable increase in output power and bandwidth extension was achieved by placement of a segment of passive EDF in front of the amplifier stage, thus recycling backward ASE as the secondary pum...

We have explored the refractive index changes (RIC) in single-mode aluminum silicate ytterbium-doped optical fibers induced by optical pulses at 980 nm and report dynamical fundamentals of the process. The RIC dynamics is shown to follow the population dynamics of the excited and unexcited ions with a factor proportional to their polarizability difference (PD). The PD dispersion profile indicat...

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India is said to be a socio-linguistic giant and the nerve system of this giant is multilingualism. “Indian multilingualism is huge in size, having 1620 mother tongues reduced to 200 languages.... With the population of many of minorities larger than European countries”(Annamalai E. 2001) . This multilingual character of India is represented by Mumbai City, the industrial capital of India, wher...