Комп’ютерне моделювання характеристик одноелектронних транзисторів

Proposed methods of modeling of electrical and temperature characteristics of single-electrontransistor for providing information to system of computer-aided design Electronics Workbench.Analyzed dependence in current-voltage characteristics of nano-device trough values of temperature andoperating modeРазработаны методы моделирования электрических и температурных характеристик одноэлектронного транзистора для информационного обеспечения системы автоматизированного схемотехническогопроектирования Electronics Workbench. Проанализирована зависимость вольт-амперных характеристик наноприбора от влияния температуры и рабочего режимаРозроблено методи моделювання електричних та температурних характеристик одноелектронного транзистора для інформаційного забезпечення системи автоматизованого схемотехнічного проектування Electronics Workbench. Проаналізовано залежність вольт-амперних характеристик наноприладу від впливу температури таробочого режим

Use of algorithm of the prevention complex of inflammatory processes in the oral cavity in metabolic syndrome

The aim of the work was to evaluate in the experiment the effectiveness of the developed treatment-and-prophylactic complex for the prevention of periodontal tissue disorders under metabolic syndrome simulation. Materials and methods. The study of biochemical and immunological changes in the blood serum, liver and gingival tissue was performed during simulation on the metabolic syndrome of alimentary genesis on Wistar rats, all animals were divided into 5 groups: 1) intact; 2) with simulated metabolic syndrome; 3) in a week after the start of MS simulation 5 times a week in the morning perorally administered a “Capillaroprotect” aqueous solution (bioflavonoid, antioxidant) produced by “Ekosvit Oil” (Ukraine) at a rate of 135 mg/kg; 4) under similar conditions receiving the preparation based on the dihydroquercetin were locally applied on gums a new dental elixir based on bee products and adaptogens of plant origin by 0,5 ml/rat with a tampon, which has held for 5–7 minutes; 5) during MS simulation from the second week were used the preparation based on the dihydroquercetin, the dental elixir topically on gums and physiotherapy. Results. Under conditions of experimental MS simulation with a diet rich in saturated fats and carbohydrate there are systemic disorders in the body: reduced nonspecific antimicrobial protection, increased microbial contamination, intensification of lipid peroxidation, the development of inflammation and hepatotoxicity. Prophylactic administration of the proposed dihydroquercetin preparation to animals in the process of simulation of MS significantly inhibits the established disorders, positively affecting the biochemical parameters of the blood serum, liver tissue, periodontium, reducing triglycerides, total cholesterol, glucose level, restoring the state of non-specific resistance, lipid metabolism, preventing inflammation and hepatosis, as well as contamination with pathogenic microflora. Conclusion. The proposed treatment-and-prophylactic complex, which includes the dihydroquercetin preparation, used per os in combination with local therapy of periodontal tissues with a tooth elixir based on propolis and biologically active substances of plant origin adaptogens with ultraphonophoresis under induced metabolic syndrome significantly removed the negative effects of its most important component

The \u3cem\u3eChlamydomonas\u3c/em\u3e Genome Reveals the Evolution of Key Animal and Plant Functions

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a unicellular green alga whose lineage diverged from land plants over 1 billion years ago. It is a model system for studying chloroplast-based photosynthesis, as well as the structure, assembly, and function of eukaryotic flagella (cilia), which were inherited from the common ancestor of plants and animals, but lost in land plants. We sequenced the ∼120-megabase nuclear genome of Chlamydomonas and performed comparative phylogenomic analyses, identifying genes encoding uncharacterized proteins that are likely associated with the function and biogenesis of chloroplasts or eukaryotic flagella. Analyses of the Chlamydomonas genome advance our understanding of the ancestral eukaryotic cell, reveal previously unknown genes associated with photosynthetic and flagellar functions, and establish links between ciliopathy and the composition and function of flagella

Modelling gravitational instabilities: slab break-off and Rayleigh-Taylor diapirism

A non-standard new code to solve multiphase viscous thermo–mechanical problems applied to geophysics is presented. Two numerical methodologies employed in the code are described: A level set technique to track the position of the materials and an enrichment of the solution to allow the strain rate to be discontinuous across the interface. These techniques have low computational cost and can be used in standard desktop PCs. Examples of phase tracking with level set are presented in two and three dimensions to study slab detachment in subduction processes and Rayleigh–Taylor instabilities, respectively. The modelling of slab detachment processes includes realistic rheology with viscosity depending on temperature, pressure and strain rate; shear and adiabatic heating mechanisms; density including mineral phase changes and varying thermal conductivity. Detachment models show a first prolonged period of thermal diffusion until a fast necking of the subducting slab results in the break–off. The influence of several numerical and physical parameters on the detachment process is analyzed: The shear heating exerts a major influence accelerating the detachment process, reducing the onset time to one half and lubricating the sinking of the detached slab. The adiabatic heating term acts as a thermal stabilizer. If the mantle temperature follows an adiabatic gradient, neglecting this heating term must be included, otherwise all temperature contrasts are overestimated. As expected, the phase change at 410 km depth (olivine–spinel transition) facilitates the detachment process due to the increase in negative buoyancy. Finally, simple plume simulations are used to show how the presented numerical methodologies can be extended to three dimensions.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author’s final draft

Ephrin-A5 Suppresses Neurotrophin Evoked Neuronal Motility, ERK Activation and Gene Expression

During brain development, growth cones respond to attractive and repulsive axon guidance cues. How growth cones integrate guidance instructions is poorly understood. Here, we demonstrate a link between BDNF (brain derived neurotrophic factor), promoting axonal branching and ephrin-A5, mediating axonal repulsion via Eph receptor tyrosine kinase activation. BDNF enhanced growth cone filopodial dynamics and neurite branching of primary neurons. We show that ephrin-A5 antagonized this BDNF-evoked neuronal motility. BDNF increased ERK phosphorylation (P-ERK) and nuclear ERK entry. Ephrin-A5 suppressed BDNF-induced ERK activity and might sequester P-ERK in the cytoplasm. Neurotrophins are well established stimulators of a neuronal immediate early gene (IEG) response. This is confirmed in this study by e.g. c-fos, Egr1 and Arc upregulation upon BDNF application. This BDNF-evoked IEG response required the transcription factor SRF (serum response factor). Notably, ephrin-A5 suppressed a BDNF-evoked neuronal IEG response, suggesting a role of Eph receptors in modulating gene expression. In opposite to IEGs, long-term ephrin-A5 application induced cytoskeletal gene expression of tropomyosin and actinin. To uncover specific Eph receptors mediating ephrin-As impact on neurotrophin signaling, EphA7 deficient mice were analyzed. In EphA7 deficient neurons alterations in growth cone morphology were observed. However, ephrin-A5 still counteracted neurotrophin signaling suggesting that EphA7 is not required for ephrin and BDNF crosstalk. In sum, our data suggest an interaction of ephrin-As and neurotrophin signaling pathways converging at ERK signaling and nuclear gene activity. As ephrins are involved in development and function of many organs, such modulation of receptor tyrosine kinase signaling and gene expression by Ephs might not be limited to the nervous system

Measurement of associated charm production induced by 400 GeV/c protons

An important input for the interpretation of the measurements of the SHiP ex- periment is a good knowledge of the differential charm production cross section, including cascade production. This is a proposal to measure the associated charm production cross section, employing the SPS 400 GeV/c proton beam and a replica of the first two interaction lengths of the SHiP target. The detection of the produc- tion and decay of charmed hadron in the target will be performed through nuclear emulsion films, employed in an Emulsion Cloud Chamber target structure. In order to measure charge and momentum of decay daughters, we intend to build a mag- netic spectrometer using silicon pixel, scintillating fibre and drift tube detectors. A muon tagger will be built using RPCs. An optimization run is scheduled in 2018, while the full measurement will be performed after the second LHC Long Shutdown

The SHiP experiment at the proposed CERN SPS Beam Dump Facility

The Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) Collaboration has proposed a general-purpose experimental facility operating in beam-dump mode at the CERN SPS accelerator to search for light, feebly interacting particles. In the baseline configuration, the SHiP experiment incorporates two complementary detectors. The upstream detector is designed for recoil signatures of light dark matter (LDM) scattering and for neutrino physics, in particular with tau neutrinos. It consists of a spectrometer magnet housing a layered detector system with high-density LDM/neutrino target plates, emulsion-film technology and electronic high-precision tracking. The total detector target mass amounts to about eight tonnes. The downstream detector system aims at measuring visible decays of feebly interacting particles to both fully reconstructed final states and to partially reconstructed final states with neutrinos, in a nearly background-free environment. The detector consists of a 50 m long decay volume under vacuum followed by a spectrometer and particle identification system with a rectangular acceptance of 5 m in width and 10 m in height. Using the high-intensity beam of 400 GeV protons, the experiment aims at profiting from the 4 x 10(19) protons per year that are currently unexploited at the SPS, over a period of 5-10 years. This allows probing dark photons, dark scalars and pseudo-scalars, and heavy neutral leptons with GeV-scale masses in the direct searches at sensitivities that largely exceed those of existing and projected experiments. The sensitivity to light dark matter through scattering reaches well below the dark matter relic density limits in the range from a few MeV/c(2) up to 100 MeV-scale masses, and it will be possible to study tau neutrino interactions with unprecedented statistics. This paper describes the SHiP experiment baseline setup and the detector systems, together with performance results from prototypes in test beams, as it was prepared for the 2020 Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics. The expected detector performance from simulation is summarised at the end