Electrowetting (EW) induced droplet motion has been explored in the past decade in view of its promising applications in the field of microfluidics. This paper demonstrates the potential of energy-based analyses for modeling the performance of EW-based fluid actuation systems. Analyses based on system energy minimization offer simplified modeling tools to predict overall performance of EW syste...

Electrowetting (EW) induced droplet motion has been explored in the past decade in view of its promising applications in the field of microfluidics. This paper demonstrates the potential of energy-based analyses for modeling the performance of EW-based fluid actuation systems. Analyses based on system energy minimization offer simplified modeling tools to predict the overall performance of EW s...

Modern parton distribution function (PDF) determinations either neglect higher-order corrections in the electroweak (EW) coupling or implement them approximately for a subset of PDF processes. We present new tool, PineAPPL, which supports perturbative correction arbitrary powers EW and strong constant, stores theoretical predictions independently used PDFs so-called interpolation grids. These a...

Anatomical studies in birds have suggested that choroidal blood flow may be regulated by a circuit involving the following serially-connected components: the retina-the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN)-the medial subdivision of the nucleus of Edinger-Westphal (mEW)-the ciliary ganglion-the choroidal blood vessels. In order to better clarify the role of this circuit, we examined the effects of elec...

Advanced tumors produce an excessive amount of transforming growth factor β (TGFβ), which promotes tumor progression at late stages of malignancy. The purpose of this study was to develop anti-TGFβ therapeutics for cancer. We synthesized a novel small-molecule TGFβ receptor I kinase (activin receptor-like kinase 5) inhibitor termed N-[[4-([1,2,4]triazolo[1,5-a]pyridin-6-yl)-5-(6-methylpyridin-2...

The former Imperial County Services Building was a six-story reinforced concrete structure in the El Centro, California, severely damaged by the 1979 Imperial Valley earthquake. It represents a rare case of an instrumented building that has been damaged, and thus can serve as a full-scale benchmark to evaluate and further develop structural health monitoring methods. This paper presents an anal...

A 3 × 2 factorial arrangements with completely randomized design, with a total of 72 Leghorn Hy-line (W-36) laying hens in the second cycle (98 wk old) of production were randomly assigned to 24 wire cages (45.7×30×30 cm3) and fed with diets containing three levels of guar meal (GM; 0, 4 and 8%) and two levels of β-mannanase (Hemicell®) enzyme (0.00 and 0.05%) for 12 wk period. There...

A precise measurement of the top mass is a central goal of the CDF and D0 experiments which, by 2006, collected an integrated luminosity of ∼ 1 fb during the Tevatron run II operations. The top mass enters as an important parameter in the calculation of electroweak (EW) observables. In global fits of the EW observables to Standard Model (SM) parameters, the top mass therefore provides an indire...

Chronic ethanol abuse causes up-regulation of NMDA receptors, which underlies seizures and brain damage upon ethanol withdrawal (EW). Here we show that tissue-plasminogen activator (tPA), a protease implicated in neuronal plasticity and seizures, is induced in the limbic system by chronic ethanol consumption, temporally coinciding with up-regulation of NMDA receptors. tPA interacts with NR2B-co...

In astronomy light emission is characterized by a frequency ω0/2π, a redshift z (sometimes a blueshift), a FWHM (Full Width Half Maximum) and an EW (Equivalent Width). ω0 relates to the nature of the concerned atom or molecule, z allows to determine the speed and the distance of the body through the Hubble law, FWHM measures the wave spectral width, and EW defines a kind of SNR (Signal-to-Noise...