Cancer therapies fail for several primary reasons; lack of drug effect on the cancerous tissue, lack of selectivity for the cancerous tissue, and/or inadequate delivery to the target tissue. Drug effect and selectivity can be improved by increased und . . .

We study the many-body localization of spin chain systems with quasiperiodic fields. We identify the lower bound for the critical disorder necessary to drive the transition between the thermal and many-body localized phase to be Wc>1.85, based on fini . . .

In earlier studies we recognized that the highly correlated behavior of the f electrons within moderately delocalized light actinide (uranium, neptunium, plutonium) systems is linked to the non-f-band behavior via the hybridization process. By transfo . . .

This review is intended for general readers who would like a basic foundation in carbohydrate structure and function, lectin biology and the implications of glycobiology in human health and disease, particularly in cancer therapeutics. These topics ar . . .

SKS arrivals from ocean bottom seismometer (OBS) data from an offshore southern California deployment are analysed for shear wave splitting. The project involved 34 OBSs deployed for 12 months in a region extending up to 500 km west of the coastline i . . .

Background: Many studies have clearly linked exposure to Second Hand Smoke (SHS) to various somatic diseases, however, few studies have examined the relationship between SHS and mental disorders and those that have were only conducted with specific gr . . .

The electronic structure and the magnetic properties of Mn3GaN are studied as a function of lattice constant and are compared with those of Mn4N. The local moments on the Mn atom in Mn3GaN and the face centered Mn atoms in Mn4N show very similar value . . .

Tin (Sn) is known to be a good catalyst for electrochemical reduction of CO2 to formate in 0.5 M KHCO3. But when a thin layer of SnO2 is coated over Cu nanoparticles, the reduction becomes Sn-thickness dependent: the thicker (1.8 nm) shell shows Sn-li . . .

A potential consequence of individuals compensating for density-dependent processes is that rare or infrequent events can produce profound and long-term shifts in species abundance. In 1983-1984 a mass mortality event reduced the numbers of the abunda . . .

We study the electron transport in semiconducting nanocrystal arrays at temperatures T<<Ec, where Ec is the charging energy for a single grain. In this temperature range, the electron transport is dominated by cotunneling processes. We discuss both el . . .

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An assay using lectin derivatized agarose beads to rapidly and inexpensively identifycell surface lectin receptors was recently described by Latham et al. (1995). In this earlier study, the assay was tested on large, early stage sea urchin embryo cell . . .

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A descriptive survey of a stratified random sample of 326 undergraduates from a large, diverse university in Los Angeles was conducted to assess whether resistance to online shopping might be, in part, related to negative social perceptions of those w . . .

Paulowina elongata is a fast-growing tree species is grown in different climates and types of soils. Environmental adaptability as well as high-yielding biomass make the P. elongata species an ideal candidate for biofuel production. High soil salinity . . .

Using the four-terminal Landauer-Büttiker formula and Green’s function approach, we calculate numerically the spin-Hall conductance in a two-dimensional junction system with the Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling and disorder. We find that the spin-Hall . . .