We have developed a technique that allows SLAC to provide parasitic low-intensity secondary e and e− beams up to 25 GeV to End Stations A and B and to the FFTB during SLC operation. This beam was successfully used for a one-month-long experimental run in End Station A by the SLAC E-146 collaboration. The experiment used 400 MeV to 25 GeV electron beams at intensities averaging one electron per ...

The Soccer League Competition algorithm (SLC) is a new nature-based metaheuristic approach to solve optimization problems. It gets its basis model from the interaction between soccer teams and their players in a soccer league competition, where each player (feasible solution) compete for victory and be the best player. This paper presents a review of the underlaying SLC model and a practical ap...

Pulse-to-pulse variation of the transverse beam orbit, frequently referred to as ' jitter' , has long been a major problem in SLC operation. It impairs the SLC luminosity both by reducing the average beam overlap at the IP and by hampering precision tuning of the final focus. The origin of the fast orbit variation is not fully understood. Measurements during the 1994/95 SLC run showed that it i...

Solute carrier (SLC) transporters are a diverse group of membrane transporter proteins that regulate the cellular flux and distribution of endogenous and xenobiotic compounds. Post-translational modifications (PTMs), such as ubiquitination, have recently emerged as one of the major regulatory mechanisms in protein function and localization. Previously, we showed that SLC amino acid transporters...

Members of the solute carrier (SLC) family of transporters are responsible for the cellular influx of a broad range of endogenous compounds and xenobiotics in multiple tissues. Many of these transporters are highly expressed in the gastrointestinal tract, liver, and kidney and are considered to be of particular importance in governing drug absorption, elimination, and cellular sensitivity of sp...

OBJECTIVE This study aims to describe changes in high-resolution spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) scans with simultaneous fundus autoflorescence (FAF) signals in tubercular serpiginouslike choroiditis (SLC). METHODS Simultaneous SD-OCT and FAF imaging of eyes affected with SLC from acute stage until resolution of lesions was obtained using Spectralis HRA+OCT system (Heide...

Butter cream is an all-purpose icing that is used to both ice and decorate cakes. Cream icings contain up to 40% shortening. As consumers become aware of the need to reduce fat in their diet, the demand for healthy, flavorful, and low-fat food increases. High-amylose corn starch was cooked in an excess-steam jet cooker in the presence of oleic acid. Amylose formed helical inclusion complexes wi...

Inside modern SSDs, a small portion of MLC/TLC NAND flash memory blocks operate in SLC-mode to serve as write buffer/cache and/or store hot data. These SLC-mode blocks absorb a large percentage of write operations. To balance memory wear-out, such MLC/TLC-to-SLC configuration rotates among all the memory blocks inside SSDs. This paper presents a simple yet effective design approach to reduce wr...

Early B cell development is characterized by stepwise, ordered rearrangement of the immunoglobulin (Ig) heavy (HC) and light (LC) chain genes. Only one of the two alleles of these genes is used to produce a receptor, a phenomenon referred to as allelic exclusion. It has been suggested that pre-B cell receptor (pre-BCR) signals are responsible for down-regulation of the VDJH-recombinase machiner...

The release of chemokines by intrinsic renal cells is an important mechanism for the regulation of leukocyte trafficking during renal inflammation. The expression of chemokine receptors by intrinsic renal cells such as mesangial cells (MC) suggests an expanded role for chemokine-chemokine receptor biology in local immunomodulation and potentially glomerular homeostasis. By immunohistochemistry ...