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Diffusions of Multiplicative Cascades
A multiplicative cascade can be thought of as a randomization of a measure on
the boundary of a tree, constructed from an iid collection of random variables
attached to the tree vertices. Given an initial measure with certain regularity
properties, we construct a continuous time, measure-valued process whose value
at each time is a cascade of the initial one. We do this by replacing the
random variables on the vertices with independent increment processes
satisfying certain moment assumptions. Our process has a Markov property: at
any given time it is a cascade of the process at any earlier time by random
variables that are independent of the past. It has the further advantage of
being a martingale and, under certain extra conditions, it is also continuous.
We discuss applications of this process to models of tree polymers and
one-dimensional random geometry.Comment: 30 pages; added section on Holder continuit
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Anillin, a contractile ring protein that cycles from the nucleus to the cell cortex.
We report the cDNA sequence and localization of a protein first identified by actin filament chromatography of Drosophila embryo extracts as ABP8 (Miller, K. G., C. M. Field, and B. M. Alberts. 1989. J. Cell Biol. 109:2963-2975). The cDNA encodes a 1201-amino acid protein which we name anillin. Anillin migrates at 190 kD on SDS-PAGE. Anillin is expressed throughout Drosophila development and in tissue culture cells. By immunofluorescence, anillin localizes to the nucleus of interphase cells, except in the syncytial embryo where it is always cytoplasmic. During metaphase, it is present in the cytoplasm and cortex, and during anaphase-telophase it becomes highly enriched in the cleavage furrow along with myosin II. In the syncytial embryo, anillin, along with myosin-II, is enriched in cortical areas undergoing cell cycle regulated invagination including metaphase furrows and the cellularization front. In contractile rings, metaphase furrows, and nascent ring canals, anillin remains bound to the invaginated cortex suggesting a stabilizing role. Anillin is not expressed in cells that have left the cell cycle. Anillin isolated from embryo extracts binds directly to actin filaments. The domain responsible for this binding has been mapped to a region of 244 amino acids by expression of protein fragments in bacteria. This domain, which is monomeric in solution, also bundles actin filaments. We speculate that anillin plays a role in organizing and/or stabilizing the cleavage furrow and other cell cycle regulated, contractile domains of the actin cytoskeleton
Reducing model uncertainty effects in flexible manipulators through the addition of passive damping
An important issue in the control of practical systems is the effect of model uncertainty on closed loop performance. This is of particular concern when flexible structures are to be controlled, due to the fact that states associated with higher frequency vibration modes are truncated in order to make the control problem tractable. Digital simulations of a single-link manipulator system are employed to demonstrate that passive damping added to the flexible member reduces adverse effects associated with model uncertainty. A controller was designed based on a model including only one flexible mode. This controller was applied to larger order systems to evaluate the effects of modal truncation. Simulations using a Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) design assuming full state feedback illustrate the effect of control spillover. Simulations of a system using output feedback illustrate the destabilizing effect of observation spillover. The simulations reveal that the system with passive damping is less susceptible to these effects than the untreated case
Molecular Electroporation and the Transduction of Oligoarginines
Certain short polycations, such as TAT and polyarginine, rapidly pass through
the plasma membranes of mammalian cells by an unknown mechanism called
transduction as well as by endocytosis and macropinocytosis. These
cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) promise to be medically useful when fused to
biologically active peptides. I offer a simple model in which one or more CPPs
and the phosphatidylserines of the inner leaflet form a kind of capacitor with
a voltage in excess of 180 mV, high enough to create a molecular electropore.
The model is consistent with an empirical upper limit on the cargo peptide of
40--60 amino acids and with experimental data on how the transduction of a
polyarginine-fluorophore into mouse C2C12 myoblasts depends on the number of
arginines in the CPP and on the CPP concentration. The model makes three
testable predictions.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figure
Microwave power coupling in a surface wave excited plasma
In recent decades, different types of plasma sources have been used for
various types of plasma processing, such as, etching and thin film deposition.
The critical parameter for effective plasma processing is high plasma density.
One type of high density plasma source is Microwave sheath-Voltage combination
Plasma (MVP). In the present investigation, a better design of MVP source is
reported, in which over-dense plasma is generated for low input microwave
powers. The results indicate that the length of plasma column increases
significantly with increase in input microwave power.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figure
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