Drosophila phototransduction is a model system for the ubiquitous phosphoinositide signaling. In complete darkness, spontaneous unitary current events (dark bumps) are produced by spontaneous single Gqα activation, while single-photon responses (quantum bumps) arise from synchronous activation of several Gqα molecules. We have recently shown that most of the spontaneous single Gqα activations d...

Excitation functions for the Gaussian emission source radii difference (R_{out}^{2}-R_{side}^{2}) obtained from two-pion interferometry measurements in Au+Au (sqrt[s_{NN}]=7.7-200  GeV) and Pb+Pb (sqrt[s_{NN}]=2.76  TeV) collisions are studied for a broad range of collision centralities. The observed nonmonotonic excitation functions validate the finite-size scaling patterns expected for the de...

We consider control problems for the variational inequality describing a single degree of freedom elasto-plastic oscillator. We are particularly interested in finding the ”critical excitation”, i.e., the lowest energy input excitation that drives the system between the prescribed initial and final states within a given time span. This is a control problem for a state evolution described by a va...

Over the last years two-photon excitation 4Pi-microscopy with an axial resolution of ~100 nm has been demonstrated in multiple biological applications [1-3]. The artefact-free presentation of the recorded structures has been possible because of the contiguous optical transfer function (OTF), which allows reliable image deconvolution. The use of two-photon excitation (2PE) has been critical to s...

second order advantage of excitation-emission fluorescence matrix was applied for the simultaneous determination of ibuprofen and caffeine. the proposed method is based on the measurement of the native fluorescence and recording emission spectra of ibuprofen and caffeine in different excitation wavelengths. the mixture of these compounds was resolved by multivariate curve resolution coupled wit...