Rational design of molecules that exhibit a thermotropic bicontinuous cubic (Cub) phase has been earnestly desired. In this work, we describe the suitable selection of a molecular motif that has enabled the systematic exploitation of eight new series of Cub-phase molecules with symmetric molecular cores, N-n (1), PB-n (2), S-n (3), and PEB-n (4), and unsymmetric cores, B-N-n (5), B-PB-n (6), B-...

Abstract—This paper introduces a novel dynamic eventbased scheduling mechanism for networked control systems (NCSs) composed of multiple linear heterogeneous stochastic plants whose feedback loops are closed over a shared constrained communication channel. Each subsystem competes for the channel access in order to update its own controller with true local state values. Employing an emulation-ba...

Antibodies against spike proteins of influenza are used as a tool for characterization of viruses and therapeutic approaches. However, development, production and quality control of antibodies is expensive and time consuming. To circumvent these difficulties, three peptides were derived from complementarity determining regions of an antibody heavy chain against influenza A spike glycoprotein. T...

This paper describes a novel approach to improving across-wafer CD uniformity through the litho-etch sequence. Our approach is to compensate for systematic CD perturbations by employing all available control authority though the litho-etch process sequence. In particular, we find that the most effective control input for regulating spatial variations in CD is found in the post exposure bake (PE...

Our objective was to compare mammary tissue gene expression profiles during a Streptococcus uberis (S. uberis) mastitis challenge between lactating cows subjected to dietary-induced negative energy balance (NEB; n = 5) and cows fed ad libitum to maintain positive energy balance (PEB; n = 5) to better understand the mechanisms associated with NEB and risk of mastitis during the transition period...

Fragile X syndrome is a neuro-developmental disease caused by transcriptional inactivation of the gene FMR1 (fragile X mental retardation 1) and loss of its protein product FMRP. FMRP has multiple neuronal functions which are implemented together with other proteins. To better understand these functions, the aim of this study was to reveal new protein interactors of dFMRP. In a forward genetic ...

Nucleophilic substitution reactions of 2-thiopheneethyl benzenesulfonates (2-TEB) and 3-thiopheneethyl benzenesulfonates (3-TEB) with anilines and N,N-dimethylanilines (DMA) are investigated in acetonitrile at 60.0 C. The cross-interaction constants ρ XZ determined for the reactions with anilines are large negative (− 0.50) which are comparable to those for the similar predominantly frontside-a...

We review recent methodological developments within a parametric empirical Bayesian (PEB) framework for reconstructing intracranial sources of extracranial electroencephalographic (EEG) and magnetoencephalographic (MEG) data under linear Gaussian assumptions. The PEB framework offers a natural way to integrate multiple constraints (spatial priors) on this inverse problem, such as those derived ...

The current research examines the extent to which attitudes and personality traits are predictive of pro-environmental behavior (PEB). Concretely, we tested relationship between attitudes, HEXACO traits, actual PEB (donating potential prize money a organization; N = 257). Additionally, controlled for influence helping pro-social organization) by addressing whether have distinct impact on or peo...

Since 1996 the Population Estimates Branch (PEB) of the Census Bureau has used a housing unit method to produce population estimates for subcounty areas. The distributive housing unit method uses data on building permits, mobile home shipments and housing unit loss to distribute county population to incorporated places and minor civil divisions within counties. The availability of Census 2000 d...