The phospholipase C gene (plc) of Clostridium perfringens possesses three phased A-tracts forming bent DNA upstream of the promoter. An in vitro transcription assay involving C.perfringens RNA polymerase (RNAP) showed that the phased A-tracts have a stimulatory effect on the plc promoter, and that the effect is proportional to the number of A-tracts, and more prominent at lower temperature. A g...

Phased arrays offer major advantages over conventional radiographic inspection of welds: no radiation hazard, chemical disposal or licensing requirements; no disruption of production; near real-time inspection results, plus vertical defect sizing for Engineering Critical Assessment. In comparison with conventional ultrasonics, phased arrays are significantly faster, more flexible, reproducible,...

A planar dual-polarized phased array is proposed for 5G cellular communications. The has the properties of dual-polarization, wideband, and quasi-endfire radiation, which printed on one side a single-layer substrate. design contains two eight-element subarrays including horizontally polarized endfire dipole antennas vertically periodic slot antennas, employed PCB ground plane mobile platform. B...

Recent growth in advanced communication systems has drawn an increasing interest in utilizing phased array technologies. Bandwidth intensive applications such as real-time video streaming and emerging gigabit wireless communications demand higher data rates than ever before. The spatial selectivity of phased arrays can increase the channel capacity and data rate without requiring extra bandwidt...

Domestic wastewater treatment was examined under two different temperature (23+/-3 degrees C and 30+/-1 degrees C) and flow modes (fed-batch and continuous) using single-chamber air-cathode microbial fuel cells (MFCs). Temperature was an important parameter for treatment efficiency and power generation. The highest power density of 422 mW/m(2) (12.8 W/m(3)) was achieved under continuous flow an...

An optimization design method was proposed for linear phased array ultrasonic imaging testing. In the method, main lobe width and the amplitude ratio of side lobe to main lobe were served as optimization objectives to judge the testing precision of phased array beam directivity. The combination of element of width and inter-element space was served as optimize parameter for the optimization obj...

This paper presents the phased array beamforming and imaging using guided waves in anisotropic composite laminates. A generic phased array beamforming formula is presented, based on the classic delay-and-sum principle. The generic formula considers direction-dependent guided wave properties induced by the anisotropic material properties of composites. Moreover, the array beamforming and imaging...