Mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake plays a pivotal role both in cell energy balance and in cell fate determination. Studies on the role of mitochondrial Ca2+ signaling in pathophysiology have been favored by the identification of the genes encoding the mitochondrial calcium uniporter (MCU) and its regulatory subunits. Thus, research carried on in the last years on one hand has determined the structure o...

The mitochondrial calcium uniporter (MCU) gene codifies for the inner mitochondrial membrane (IMM) channel responsible for mitochondrial Ca(2 +) uptake. Cytosolic Ca(2 +) transients are involved in sarcomere contraction through cycles of release and storage in the sarcoplasmic reticulum. In addition cytosolic Ca(2 +) regulates various signaling cascades that eventually lead to gene expression r...

In recent years, several new methods for IC-level electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) testing have been introduced. Therefore, a handy vehicle for IC-EMC testing is required to validate the effectiveness of the new IC-EMC testing methods. This paper proposes an 8051 MCU for IC-EMC testing platform with in-system programming (ISP) and decoupling capacitor (decap) functions. In order to reduce th...

Four types of commercial mosquito control traps, the Mosquito Magnet Pro (MMP), the Sentinel 360 (S360), the BG-Sentinel (BGS), and the Mega-Catch Ultra (MCU), were compared with a standard Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) light trap for efficacy in collecting phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in a small farming village in the Nile River Valley 10 km north of Aswan,...

The MCU subsystem of the IceCube DAQ is the source that provides the capability to ascribe to each "hit" detected by any of the ~5120 Digital Optical Modules (DOM a time-stamp common to the entire IceCube = InIce + IceTop array. This common timestamp shall be referred to as IceCube Time Calibration (ITC). The creation of the ITC requires a complex sequence of information capture at both DOM and...

An automobile anti-theft and alarm system based on MCU and information fusion is introduced in this paper, in which multi sensors are used to collect the information about automobile’s situation firstly, and a MCU is used as the central processing and control center, the FCM and the neural network algorithms are adopted to fuse the multisensor information respectively, finally, the automobile’s...

Image width is important for image understanding. We propose a novel method to estimate widths for JPEG images when their widths are not available. The key idea is that the distance between two decoded MCUs (Minimum Coded Unit) adjacent in the vertical direction is usually small, which is measured by the average Euclidean distance between the pixels from the bottom row of the top MCU and the to...

The paper describes security algorithms and protocols provided by recent WSN stacks where symmetric-key schemes are commonly used. Using these schemes seems to be impractical in large scale networks; hence the paper intends their replacement by public-key schemes for mentioned low cost and low power MCU platforms. Moreover, the paper proposes implementation of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) stac...

In this work, we implement all three digital signature schemes specified in Digital Signature Standard (FIPS 186-3), including DSA and RSA (based on modular exponentiation) as well as ECDSA (based on elliptic curve point multiplication), on an ultra-constrained 4-bit MCU of the EPSON S1C63 family. Myriads of 4-bit MCUs are widely deployed in legacy devices, and some in security applications due...