In this study we report in-plane nanotracks produced by molecular-beam-epitaxy (MBE) exhibiting lateral self-assembly and unusual periodic and out-of-phase height variations across their growth axes. The nanotracks are synthesized using bismuth segregation on the GaAsBi epitaxial surface, which results in metallic liquid droplets capable of catalyzing GaAsBi nanotrack growth via the vapor-liqui...

It has recently become apparent that collagen fibrils may be composed of more than one kind of macromolecule. To explore this possibility, we developed a procedure to purify fibril fragments from 17-d embryonic chicken sternal cartilage. The fibril population obtained shows, after negative staining, a uniformity in the banding pattern and diameter similar to the fibrils in situ. Pepsin digestio...

Using a model from the literature, the performance of convolutionally interleaved phase shift keying (PSK) and differential phase shift keying (DPSK) trellis codes for digital speech transmission over a shadowed mobile satellite communication channels is determined via digital computer simulation. First the characteristics of fading channels are examined and analyzed in terms of the probability...

Morse inequalities for diffeomorphisms of a compact manifold were first proved by Smale [21] under the assumption that the nonwandering set is finite. We call these the integral Morse inequalities. They were generalized by Zeeman in an unpublished work cited in [25] to diffeomorphisms with a hyperbolic chain recurrent set that is axiom-A-diffeomorphisms which satisfy the no cycle condition. For...

The phenomenon of shadowing of nuclear structure functions at small values of Bjorken-x is analyzed. First, multiple scattering is discussed as the underlying physical mechanism. In this context three different but related approaches are presented: Glauber-like rescatterings, Gribov inelastic shadowing and ideas based on high-density Quantum Chromodynamics. Next, different parametrizations of n...