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Dorsal root ganglion neurons maintained in a 3D culture model exhibit similar electrophysiological properties to fresh explants
Tissue engineered culture models provide a powerful tool for neuroscience research1. They overcome limitations associated with monolayer cultures of neurons and glia by maintaining cells in a more realistic 3D spatial arrangement, and permit continuous monitoring and control of variables that cannot be achieved in animal models. Here we report the development of a system for recording electrophysiological behaviour in neurons in 3D culture
High-altitude plume computer code development
The flowfield codes that have been developed to predict rocket motor plumes at high altitude were used to predict plume properties for the RCS motor which show reasonable agreement with experimental data. A systematic technique was established for the calculation of high altitude plumes. The communication of data between the computer codes was standardized. It is recommended that these outlined procedures be more completed, documented and updated as the plume methodology is applied to the varied problems of plume flow and plume impingement encountered by space station design and operation
GRBlog: A Database for Gamma-Ray Bursts
GRBlog is an on-line database providing researchers with quick access to all
information reported in the GCN Circulars. Users of the GRBlog web site
(grad40.as.utexas.edu/grblog.php) can search the circulars and produce
afterglow light curve plots, or compile data tables. The site also offers
advanced search capabilities to aide in statistical studies or comparative
research. Most of the GCNs have already been entered into the GRBlog database,
with the remainder to follow shortly.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures. Proceedings for the 2003 GRB Conference (Santa
Fe, NM, 2003 Sep 8-12
Amenability and co-amenability of algebraic quantum groups
We define concepts of amenability and co-amenability for algebraic quantum
groups in the sense of A. Van Daele. We show that co-amenability of an
algebraic quantum group always implies amenability of its dual. Various
necessary and/or sufficient conditions for amenability or co-amenability are
obtained. Co-amenability is shown to have interesting consequences for the
modular theory in the case that the algebraic quantum group is of compact type.Comment: 25 pages, with some minor corrections, as to appear in the IJMM
Numerical solutions of the one-dimensional nucleon-meson cascade equations
Numerical integration of meson-nucleon cascade equations for accelerator shielding calculation
Firing squibs by low voltage capacitor discharge for spacecraft application
Low voltage capacitor discharge firing circuit to initiate hot bridgewire squibs for spacecraft application
A stellar census of the nearby, young 32 Orionis group
The 32 Orionis group was discovered almost a decade ago and despite the fact
that it represents the first northern, young (age ~ 25 Myr) stellar aggregate
within 100 pc of the Sun ( pc), a comprehensive survey for members
and detailed characterisation of the group has yet to be performed. We present
the first large-scale spectroscopic survey for new (predominantly M-type)
members of the group after combining kinematic and photometric data to select
candidates with Galactic space motion and positions in colour-magnitude space
consistent with membership. We identify 30 new members, increasing the number
of known 32 Ori group members by a factor of three and bringing the total
number of identified members to 46, spanning spectral types B5 to L1. We also
identify the lithium depletion boundary (LDB) of the group, i.e. the luminosity
at which lithium remains unburnt in a coeval population. We estimate the age of
the 32 Ori group independently using both isochronal fitting and LDB analyses
and find it is essentially coeval with the {\beta} Pictoris moving group, with
an age of Myr. Finally, we have also searched for circumstellar disc
hosts utilising the AllWISE catalogue. Although we find no evidence for warm,
dusty discs, we identify several stars with excess emission in the WISE W4-band
at 22 {\mu}m. Based on the limited number of W4 detections we estimate a debris
disc fraction of per cent for the 32 Ori group.Comment: Accepted for publication in MNRAS; 24 pages, 17 figures and 10 table
Galaxies into the Dark Ages
We consider the capabilities of current and future large facilities operating
at 2\,mm to 3\,mm wavelength to detect and image the [CII] 158\,m line
from galaxies into the cosmic "dark ages" ( to 20). The [CII] line
may prove to be a powerful tool in determining spectroscopic redshifts, and
galaxy dynamics, for the first galaxies. We emphasize that the nature, and even
existence, of such extreme redshift galaxies, remains at the frontier of open
questions in galaxy formation. In 40\,hr, ALMA has the sensitivity to detect
the integrated [CII] line emission from a moderate metallicity, active
star-forming galaxy [; star formation rate (SFR) =
5\,\,yr], at at a significance of 6. The
next-generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) will detect the integrated [CII] line
emission from a Milky-Way like star formation rate galaxy (, SFR = 1\,\,yr), at at a significance
of 6. Imaging simulations show that the ngVLA can determine rotation
dynamics for active star-forming galaxies at , if they exist. Based
on our very limited knowledge of the extreme redshift Universe, we calculate
the count rate in blind, volumetric surveys for [CII] emission at
to 20. The detection rates in blind surveys will be slow (of order unity per
40\,hr pointing). However, the observations are well suited to commensal
searches. We compare [CII] with the [OIII] 88m line, and other ancillary
information in high galaxies that would aid these studies.Comment: 11pages, 8 figures, Accepted for the Astrophysical Journa
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