Adenosine-5'-triphosphate (ATP) is a multifunctional nucleotide, which plays a vital role in many biological processes, including muscle contraction, cells functioning, synthesis and degradation of important cellular compounds, and membrane transport. Thus, the development of ATP-responsive controlled release system for bioorganism application is very significative. Here, an original and facile...

The Flask architecture, which mainly contains object manager (OM) and security server (SS), is widely used to support flexible security policies in operating system. In nature, OM and SS should be isolated from each other to separate decision from enforcement. However, current implementation of Flask, such as SELinux and SEBSD, puts both OM and SS in the same address space. If one component is ...

The formation of effective and precise linkages in bottom-up or top-down processes is important for the development of self-assembled materials. Self-assembly through molecular recognition events is a powerful tool for producing functionalized materials. Photoresponsive molecular recognition systems can permit the creation of photoregulated self-assembled macroscopic objects. Here we demonstrat...

A microporous 3D cobalt(II) coordination polymer featuring pillared layers [Co(2)(ma)(ina)](n) x 2nH(2)O (1 x 2H(2)O) (ma = malate, ina = isonicotinate) was generated by hydrothermal treatment with a void volume of 25.8%, in which the in-situ generated ma ligands connect the Co(II) ions into a 2D lattice with mixed and multiple exchange-bridges, affording a new geometrical topology different fr...

Hosting virtual servers on a shared physical hardware by means of hardware virtualization is common use at data centers, web hosters, and research facilities. All platforms include isolation techniques that restrict resource consumption of the virtual guest machines. However, these isolation techniques have an impact on the performance of the guest systems. In this paper, we study how popular h...

In order to investigate the coupling between the degrees of alignment of elongated particles in binary nematic dispersions, surfactant stabilized single-wall carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been added to nematic suspensions of colloidal rodlike viruses in aqueous solution. We have independently measured the orientational order parameter of both components of the guest-host system by means of polar...

s for talks scheduled for the 2016 annual meeting of the J.B. Johnston Club for Evolutionary Neuroscience are listed in alphabetical order by presenting author. The final schedule of talks will be sent to the membership prior to the meeting and will be available at the registration desk during the meeting. This year’s Karger Invited Guest will be Prof. Menno P. Witter. The title of his talk wil...

The synthesis of the three isomeric tris(pyridylmethylamino)cyclotriguaiacylene cavitands is reported, along with the crystal structures of the 2- and 4-pyridyl derivatives. The generality of a previously described [Ag(2){tris(3-pyridylmethylamino)cyclotriguaiacylene}(2)](2+) dimeric capsule motif and the [Ag(4){tris(4-pyridylmethylamino)cyclotriguaiacylene}(4)](4+) tetrahedron with several sil...

We incorporate the Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) theory of electrostatics into our variational implicit-solvent model (VISM) for the solvation of charged molecules in an aqueous solvent. In order to numerically relax the VISM free-energy functional by our level-set method, we develop highly accurate methods for solving the dielectric PB equation and for computing the dielectric boundary force. We also...

The binding stoichiometry of a host-guest complex can be effectively controlled by the redox chemistry of the guest: a 1:1 inclusion complex of methylviologen dication (MV2+) in cucurbit[8]uril (CB[8]) converts completely and reversibly to a 2:1 inclusion complex of cation radical (MV+.) in CB[8] upon the reduction of the guest.