Charged dust and shock phenomena in the Solar System

International audienceThe results on shock phenomena in dusty plasmas of the Solar System are reviewed. The problems of dust ion acoustic bow shock in interaction of the solar wind with dusty cometary coma and formation of transient atmospheres of atmosphereless cosmic bodies such as Moon, Mercury, asteroids and comets are considered. The latter assumes the evolution of meteoroid impact plumes and production of charged dust grains due to the condensation of both the plume substance and the vapor thrown from the crater and the surrounding regolith layer. Physical phenomena occurring during large meteoroid impacts can be modeled with the aid of active rocket experiments, which involve the release of some gaseous substance in near-Earth space. New vistas in investigation of shock processes in natural dusty plasmas are determined

FINANCIAL SECURITY OF FUNCTIONING OF THE BUSINESSES IN THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR OF ECONOMY IN THE CONDITIONS OF CHANGES

The problem of the importance of the financial security of business development in the agricultural sector of economy is covered in this article. The importance of inner and outer sources of financing during the organization of their practice has been determined. Special attention is payed towards the problematic questions of build-up of the capacities of financial resources, determination of the optimization of sources of their formation. The problematic questions of bank lending and the implication of the financial resources through the stock market are also covered below. Great attention is directed towards the importance of the state financial assistance for agricultural sector of economy development.The problem of the importance of the financial security of business development in the agricultural sector of economy is covered in this article. The importance of inner and outer sources of financing during the organization of their practice has been determined. Special attention is payed towards the problematic questions of build-up of the capacities of financial resources, determination of the optimization of sources of their formation. The problematic questions of bank lending and the implication of the financial resources through the stock market are also covered below. Great attention is directed towards the importance of the state financial assistance for agricultural sector of economy development

Energy resolution and efficiency of phonon-mediated Kinetic Inductance Detectors for light detection

The development of sensitive cryogenic light detectors is of primary interest for bolometric experiments searching for rare events like dark matter interactions or neutrino-less double beta decay. Thanks to their good energy resolution and the natural multiplexed read-out, Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KIDs) are particularly suitable for this purpose. To efficiently couple KIDs-based light detectors to the large crystals used by the most advanced bolometric detectors, active surfaces of several cm$^2$ are needed. For this reason, we are developing phonon-mediated detectors. In this paper we present the results obtained with a prototype consisting of four 40 nm thick aluminum resonators patterned on a 2$\times$2 cm$^2$ silicon chip, and calibrated with optical pulses and X-rays. The detector features a noise resolution $\sigma_E=154\pm7$ eV and an (18$\pm$2)$\%$ efficiency.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure

Peristaltic Transport of a Couple Stress Fluid: Some Applications to Hemodynamics

The present paper deals with a theoretical investigation of the peristaltic transport of a couple stress fluid in a porous channel. The study is motivated towards the physiological flow of blood in the micro-circulatory system, by taking account of the particle size effect. The velocity, pressure gradient, stream function and frictional force of blood are investigated, when the Reynolds number is small and the wavelength is large, by using appropriate analytical and numerical methods. Effects of different physical parameters reflecting porosity, Darcy number, couple stress parameter as well as amplitude ratio on velocity profiles, pumping action and frictional force, streamlines pattern and trapping of blood are studied with particular emphasis. The computational results are presented in graphical form. The results are found to be in good agreement with those of Shapiro et. al \cite{r25} that was carried out for a non-porous channel in the absence of couple stress effect. The present study puts forward an important observation that for peristaltic transport of a couple stress fluid during free pumping when the couple stress effect of the fluid/Darcy permeability of the medium, flow reversal can be controlled to a considerable extent. Also by reducing the permeability it is possible to avoid the occurrence of trapping phenomenon

Proceedings of the Scientific-Practical Conference "Research and Development - 2016"

This open access book relates to the III Annual Conference hosted by the Russian Federal Ministry of Education and Science in December 2016. This event has summarized, analyzed and discussed the interim results, academic outputs and scientific achievements of the Russian Federal Targeted Programme for Research and Development in priority areas of development of the Russian Scientific and Technological Complex for 2014-2020. It contains 75 selected papers from 6 areas considered priority by the Federal programme: computer science, ecology & environment sciences; energy and energy efficiency; life sciences; nanoscience & nanotechnology; and transport & communications. The chapters report the results of the 3-years research projects supported by the Programme and finalized in 2016

Optimizing Technological Parameters of the Reduction Processes in Treating Steels in a Ladle Furnace

This work reports the possible development of reduction processes when treating the molten metal and slag using a ladle furnace under conditions of intensive stirring with an inert gas. The industrial data have been received, confirming the possibility of decreasing the concentration of ferrous and manganese oxides in the slag and stabilizing the contents of manganese and silicon in the metal

Endothelial cells decode VEGF-mediated Ca2+ signaling patterns to produce distinct functional responses

A single extracellular stimulus can promote diverse behaviors among isogenic cells by differentially regulated signaling networks. We examined Ca2+ signaling in response to VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor), a growth factor that can stimulate different behaviors in endothelial cells. We found that altering the amount of VEGF signaling in endothelial cells by stimulating them with different VEGF concentrations triggered distinct and mutually exclusive dynamic Ca2+ signaling responses that correlated with different cellular behaviors. These behaviors were cell proliferation involving the transcription factor NFAT (nuclear factor of activated T cells) and cell migration involving MLCK (myosin light chain kinase). Further analysis suggested that this signal decoding was robust to the noisy nature of the signal input. Using probabilistic modeling, we captured both the stochastic and deterministic aspects of Ca2+ signal decoding and accurately predicted cell responses in VEGF gradients, which we used to simulate different amounts of VEGF signaling. Ca2+ signaling patterns associated with proliferation and migration were detected during angiogenesis in developing zebrafish