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Molecular Insights into a-Synuclein and Its N-terminal Peptides at the Membrane Interface

February 1, 2012
Author(s)
Candace M. Pfefferkorn, Frank Heinrich, Alexander J. Sodt, Alexander S. Malstev, Richard W. Pastor, Jennifer C. Lee
The role of phospholipids in modulating α-synuclein (α-syn) conformation is of great interest because α-syn aggregation is linked to Parkinson¿s disease. Using a sparsely tethered-bilayer composed of 1:1 molar ratio of 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3

Numerical Study of the Thermodynamics of Clinoatacamite

February 1, 2012
Author(s)
Ehsan Khatami, Joel Helton, Marcos Rigol
In this Brief Report, we discuss the use of linked-cluster expansions in solving quantum models that break certain symmetries of the underlying lattice. We sketch the algorithm for the numerical linked-cluster expansions (NLCEs) and show that although some

OASIS Collaborative Energy Standards, Facilities, and ZigBee Smart Energy

February 1, 2012
Author(s)
David G. Holmberg, William Cox, Don Sturek
The enterprise integration-style interfaces and information models in the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems (OASIS) collaborative energy standards are designed to address information exchange across the smart grid. This

Polymer Dynamics in Constrained Geometries

February 1, 2012
Author(s)
Christopher Soles, Ryan Nieuwendaal, Huagen H. Peng
The wide-spread interest in the dynamical property of organic materials under strong states of confinement largely began with differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) measurements in the early 90's of the glass transition and heat capacity of glass forming

Resonant control of polar molecules in an optical lattice

February 1, 2012
Author(s)
Thomas M. Hanna, Eite Tiesinga, William F. Mitchell, Paul S. Julienne
We study the resonant control of two nonreactive polar molecules in an optical lattice site, focussing on the example of RbCs. Collisional control can be achieved by tuning bound states of the intermolecular dipolar potential, by varying the applied

Validating the LASSO Algorithm by Unmixing Spectral Signatures in Multicolor Phantoms

February 1, 2012
Author(s)
Daniel V. Samarov, Matthew L. Clarke, Ji Y. Lee, David W. Allen, Maritoni A. Litorja, Jeeseong Hwang
As hyperspectral imaging (HSI) sees increased implementation into the biological and medical fields it becomes increasingly important that the algorithms being used to analyze the corresponding output be validated. While certainly important under any

Development of stabilized zero valent iron nanoparticles

January 31, 2012
Author(s)
Lauren F. Greenlee, Stephanie A. Hooker
Many organic micropollutants have recently been identified in natural water sources and finished drinking water; many of these compounds are not successfully degraded or removed by current water treatment processes. There is an increasing interest in

Measurements and Modeling Study on a High-Aromatic Diesel Fuel

January 31, 2012
Author(s)
Bret Windom, Marcia L. Huber, Thomas J. Bruno, A L. Lown, C T. Lira
The increasing cost of diesel fuel, potential for supply disruptions, and environmental concerns have resulted in a great deal of research to improve the performance and efficiency of diesel engines. This includes significant efforts in the reformulation

Families of Elliptic Curves with Rational 3-torsion

January 30, 2012
Author(s)
Dustin Moody, Hongfeng Wu
In this paper we look at three families of elliptic curves with rational 3-torsion over a finite field. These families include Hessian curves, twisted Hessian curves, and a new family we call generalized DIK curves. We find the number of Fq-isogeny classes

Elucidating the Influence of Local Structure Perturbations on the Metal-Insulator Transitions of V1-x MoxO2 Nanowires: Mechanistic Insights from an X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Study

January 27, 2012
Author(s)
Bruce D. Ravel, C Patridge, Luisa Whittaker-Brooks, S Banerjee
The substitutional doping of Mo within VO2 substantially alters the electronic and structural phase diagrams of the host lattice, most notably by bringing the technologically relevant metal-insulator phase transition temperature in closer proximity to room

Optimization of the TES-bias circuit for a multiplexed microcalorimeter array

January 27, 2012
Author(s)
William B. Doriese, Bradley K. Alpert, Joseph W. Fowler, Gene C. Hilton, Alex S. Hojem, Kent D. Irwin, Carl D. Reintsema, Daniel R. Schmidt, Greg Stiehl, Daniel S. Swetz, Joel N. Ullom, Leila R. Vale
In the detector-bias circuit of a transition-edge-sensor (TES) microcalorimeter, the TES-shunt resistor (Rsh) and the thermal conductance to the cryogenic bath (G) are often considered to be interchangeable knobs with which to control detector speed

Probing the timescale of the exchange interaction in a ferromagnetic alloy

January 27, 2012
Author(s)
Justin M. Shaw, Stefan Mathias, Chan La-O-Vorakiat, Hans T. Nembach, Thomas J. Silva, Mark Siemens, Henry Kapteyn, Margaret Murnane
The underlying physics of all ferromagnetic behavior is the cooperative interaction between individual atomic magnetic moments that results in a macroscopic magnetization. In this work, we use extreme ultraviolet pulses from high-harmonic generation as an

ThermoData Engine (TDE): Software Implementation of the Dynamic Data Evaluation Concept. 7. Ternary Mixtures

January 27, 2012
Author(s)
Vladimir Diky, Robert D. Chirico, Chris D. Muzny, Andrei F. Kazakov, Kenneth G. Kroenlein, Joe W. Magee, Ilmutdin M. Abdulagatov, Jeongwon J. Kang, Michael D. Frenkel
ThermoData Engine (TDE) is the first full-scale software implementation of the dynamic data evaluation concept, as reported in this journal. The present paper describes the first application of this concept to the evaluation of thermophysical properties for

DNA Molecules Descending a Nanofluidic Staircase by Entropophoresis

January 26, 2012
Author(s)
Samuel M. Stavis, Jon C. Geist, Michael Gaitan, Laurie E. Locascio, Elizabeth A. Strychalski
A complex entropy gradient for confined DNA molecules was engineered for the first time. Following the second law of thermodynamics, this enabled the directed self-transport and self-concentration of DNA molecules. This new nanofluidic method is termed

Spin transport in memristive devices

January 26, 2012
Author(s)
Hyuk-Jae Jang, Oleg A. Kirillov, Oana Jurchescu, Curt A. Richter
We report on electron spin transport through electrochemically precipitated copper filaments formed in TaOX memristive devices consisting of Co(60nm)/TaOX(16nm)/Cu(5nm)/Py(60nm) with crossbar-type electrode geometry.The devices show memristive behavior
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