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Regulation of Macromolecular Synthesis during Sea Urchin Development
1979
Immediately following fertilization the sea urchin egg enters a period of very rapid cell division that cleaves the egg cell into about one thousand proportionately smaller cells, which form the swimming blastula, i.e. a larval form that is less vulnerable to environmental injuries since it is capable of actively swimming away from them.
Reliable measures of plastic deformations for elastic plastic structures in shakedown conditions
2020
A new formulation for evaluating reliable measures of the plastic deformations occurring in the transient phase of a structure in shakedown conditions is proposed. The structure is thought as constituted by elastic perfectly plastic material and subjected to a combination of fixed and cyclic loads. The proposed formulation consists in the search for the optimal plastic strain field that minimize a suitable objective function defining a strain energy measure related to the plastic strains at the shakedown limit. The typical self-stress field can be obtained as the elastic structural response to an assigned plastic strain field respecting appropriate ductility limits for the material. Without…
Influence of protecting devices on the optimal design of elastic plastic structures
2008
The paper concerns the minimum volume design of structures constituted by elastic perfectly plastic material. The relevant optimal design problem is formulated on the grounds of a statical approach and two different resistance limits are considered: in particular, it is required that the optimal structure satisfies the elastic shakedown limit and the instantaneous collapse limit, imposing for each different condition a suitably chosen safety factor. For sake of generality, the structure is thought as discretized into compatible finite elements and subjected to loads quasi-statically acting as well as to dynamic (seismic) loads. The effects of the dynamic actions are studied on the grounds o…
Synthetic electromagnetic knot in a three-dimensional skyrmion
2018
We experimentally simulate a quantum-mechanical particle interacting with knotted electromagnetic fields.
Compensation of missing wedge effects with sequential statistical reconstruction in electron tomography.
2014
Electron tomography (ET) of biological samples is used to study the organization and the structure of the whole cell and subcellular complexes in great detail. However, projections cannot be acquired over full tilt angle range with biological samples in electron microscopy. ET image reconstruction can be considered an ill-posed problem because of this missing information. This results in artifacts, seen as the loss of three-dimensional (3D) resolution in the reconstructed images. The goal of this study was to achieve isotropic resolution with a statistical reconstruction method, sequential maximum a posteriori expectation maximization (sMAP-EM), using no prior morphological knowledge about …
3D-Ultrastructure, Functions and Stress Responses of Gastropod (Biomphalaria glabrata) Rhogocytes
2014
Rhogocytes are pore cells scattered among the connective tissue of different body parts of gastropods and other molluscs, with great variation in their number, shape and size. They are enveloped by a lamina of extracellular matrix. Their most characteristic feature is the "slit apparatus", local invaginations of the plasma membrane bridged by cytoplasmic bars, forming slits of ca. 20 nm width. A slit diaphragm creates a molecular sieve with permeation holes of 20×20 nm. In blue-blooded gastropods, rhogocytes synthesize and secrete the respiratory protein hemocyanin, and it has been proposed-though not proven-that in the rare red-blooded snail species they might synthesize and secrete the he…
EPR on Radiation-Induced Defects in SiO2
2014
Continuous-wave electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy has been the technique of choice for the studies of radiation-induced defects in silica (SiO2) for 60 years, and has recently been expanded to include more sophisticated techniques such as high-frequency EPR, pulse electron nuclear double resonance (ENDOR), and pulse electron spin echo envelope modulation (ESEEM) spectroscopy. Structural models of radiation-induced defects obtained from single-crystal EPR analyses of crystalline SiO2 (alfa-quartz) are often applicable to their respective analogues in amorphous silica (a-SiO2), although significant differences are common.
"Efficiency in the SR3$\ell$ region with $\ell=$$\tau$" of "Search for trilepton resonances from chargino and neutralino pair production in $\sqrt{s}…
2021
The combined $\tilde\chi^{\pm}_{1}\tilde\chi^{\mp}_{1} + \tilde\chi^{\pm}_{1}\tilde\chi^{0}_{1}$ reconstruction efficiencies in the SR3$\ell$ region. Results are given as a function of $\tilde\chi^{\pm}_{1}/\tilde\chi^{0}_{1}$ mass and branching fraction to Z bosons, and are derived separately when requiring that the charged-lepton decays of $\tilde\chi^{\pm}_{1}/\tilde\chi^{0}_{1}$ are into $\tau$-leptons only
"Triangle, Efficiency in SR3$\ell$, $\ell=(e, \mu, \tau)$" of "Search for trilepton resonances from chargino and neutralino pair production in $\sqrt…
2021
The combined $\tilde\chi^{\pm}_{1}\tilde\chi^{\mp}_{1} + \tilde\chi^{\pm}_{1}\tilde\chi^{0}_{1}$ reconstruction efficiencies in the SR3$\ell$ region for $\tilde\chi^{\pm}_{1}/\tilde\chi^{0}_{1}$ masses of 700 GeV. Results are given as a function of the branching fractions to Z and Higgs bosons
"Triangle, Efficiency in SR4$\ell$, $\ell=(e, \mu, \tau)$" of "Search for trilepton resonances from chargino and neutralino pair production in $\sqrt…
2021
The combined $\tilde\chi^{\pm}_{1}\tilde\chi^{\mp}_{1} + \tilde\chi^{\pm}_{1}\tilde\chi^{0}_{1}$ reconstruction efficiencies in the SR4$\ell$ region for $\tilde\chi^{\pm}_{1}/\tilde\chi^{0}_{1}$ masses of 700 GeV. Results are given as a function of the branching fractions to Z and Higgs bosons