We study the thermodynamics and kinetics of an RNA toehold-mediated strand displacement reaction with a recently developed coarse-grained model of RNA. Strand displacement, during which a single strand displaces a different strand previously bound to a complementary substrate strand, is an essential mechanism in active nucleic acid nanotechnology and has also been hypothesized to occur in vivo....

We evaluated the diaphragmatic excursion, volumetric measurement, maximal inspiratory pressure (PI(max)), lung function tests (forced vital capacity-FVC, forced expiratory volume in the first second-FEV1, mean forced expiratory flow between 25 and 75% of the FVC maneuver-FEF(25-75%), peak expiratory flow-PEF and maximal voluntary ventilation-MVV), displacement of the domes diaphragmatics with u...

In this paper we propose a methodology to generate trajectories for a mobile robot which uses an uncertain geometric map to estimate its position and orientation during its displacement. This methodology is based on the definition of particular paths and on defining a cost function to weigh the trade-off between expected localization gain and the risk due to the map uncertainty.

Radiation force-based elasticity imaging is currently being investigated as a possible diagnostic modality for a number of clinical tasks, including liver fibrosis staging and the characterization of cardiovascular tissue. In this study, we evaluate the relationship between peak displacement magnitude and image quality and propose using a Bayesian estimator to overcome the challenge of obtainin...

We obtain the primitively divergent diagrams in κ-deformed scalar field in four-dimensional spacetime with quartic self-interaction in order to investigate the effect of the fundamental length q = 1/(2κ) on such diagrams. Thanks to κ-deformation, we find that the dimensionally regularized forms of the diagrams lead to finite results in the limit of space-time dimension four. The effect of the d...