The power threshold for low (L) to high (H) confinement mode transition achieved by radio-frequency (RF) heating and lithium-wall coating is investigated experimentally on EAST for two sets of walls: an all carbon wall (C) and molybdenum chamber and a carbon divertor (Mo/C). For both sets of walls, a minimum power threshold Pthr of ~0.6 MW was found when the EAST operates in a double null (DN) ...

In-memory computing (IMC) aims to solve the performance gap between CPU and memories introduced by memory wall. However, it does not address energy wall problem caused data transfer over hierarchies. This paper proposes data-locality management unit (DMU) efficiently from a DRAM computational SRAM (C-SRAM) allowing IMC operations. The DMU is tightly coupled within C-SRAM allows one align struct...

Mathematical models of left ventricular (LV) wall mechanics show that fiber stress depends heavily on the choice of muscle fiber orientation in the wall. This finding brought us to the hypothesis that fiber orientation may be such that mechanical load in the wall is homogeneous. Aim of this study was to use the hypothesis to compute a distribution of fiber orientation within the wall. In a fini...

The pathogenicity of the opportunistic human fungal pathogen Candida albicans depends on its ability to escape destruction by the host immune system. Using mutant strains that are defective in cell surface glycosylation, cell wall protein synthesis, and yeast-hypha morphogenesis, we have investigated three important aspects of C. albicans innate immune interactions: phagocytosis by primary macr...

Two models based on convolutional neural networks are trained to predict the two-dimensional instantaneous velocity-fluctuation fields at different wall-normal locations in a turbulent open-channel flow, using wall-shear-stress components and wall pressure as inputs. The first model is fully network (FCN) which directly predicts fluctuations, while second one reconstructs flow linear combinatio...

Cell wall chemistry in the coencocytic green seaweed Codium vermilara (Olivi) Delle Chiaje (Bryopsidales, Chlorophyta) is well understood. These cell walls are composed of major amounts of neutral β-(1→4)-D-mannans (Mn), sulfated polysaccharides (SPs), which include pyranosic arabinan sulfates (ArpS), pyruvylated galactan sulfates (pGaS), and mannan sulfates (MnS); also minor amounts of O-glyco...

BACKGROUND There are only three reports using conventional sonography to detect the gastroesophageal junction through the left lobe liver window in patients with achalasia, and the results were inconsistent. This study further characterizes the sonographic features of achalasia and compares them to characteristics of subjects with gastroesophageal malignancies. METHODS Conventional sonography...

Recessive mutations at three loci cause the collapse of mature xylem cells in inflorescence stems of Arabidopsis. These irregular xylem (irx) mutations were identified by screening plants from a mutagenized population by microscopic examination of stem sections. The xylem cell defect was associated with an up to eightfold reduction in the total amount of cellulose in mature inflorescence stems....

We consider a problem of motion planning under uncertainty. A robot can navigate freely in the plane and, using a built-in vision system, can determine distances and angles. Initially, the robot stands at a point close to a an edge of a polygonal obstacle (e. g. a wall of a huge building) and faces a corner at distance 1 from its position. The other wall which forms the corner is invisible from...