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Jožef Stefan Institute
Facility•Ljubljana, Slovenia•
About: Jožef Stefan Institute is a facility organization based out in Ljubljana, Slovenia. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Liquid crystal & Dielectric. The organization has 3828 authors who have published 12614 publications receiving 291025 citations.
Topics: Liquid crystal, Dielectric, Thin film, Ferroelectricity, Phase (matter)
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a whispering gallery mode resonator made of nematic liquid-crystal droplets with a wavelength tunability approximately two orders of magnitude larger than that of conventional solid-state micro-resonators.
Abstract: Whispering-gallery-mode resonators made of nematic liquid-crystal droplets offer a wavelength tunability approximately two orders of magnitude larger than that of conventional solid-state microresonators.
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TL;DR: The 2.75 Å crystal structure of the complex between the catalytic domain of human MT1‐MMP and bovine TIMP‐2 is solved and two large insertions remote from the active‐site cleft that might be important for interaction with macromolecular substrates are displayed.
Abstract: The proteolytic activity of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) towards extracellular matrix components is held in check by the tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMPs). The binary complex of TIMP-2 and membrane-type-1 MMP (MT1-MMP) forms a cell surface located 'receptor' involved in pro-MMP-2 activation. We have solved the 2.75 A crystal structure of the complex between the catalytic domain of human MT1-MMP (cdMT1-MMP) and bovine TIMP-2. In comparison with our previously determined MMP-3-TIMP-1 complex, both proteins are considerably tilted to one another and show new features. CdMT1-MMP, apart from exhibiting the classical MMP fold, displays two large insertions remote from the active-site cleft that might be important for interaction with macromolecular substrates. The TIMP-2 polypeptide chain, as in TIMP-1, folds into a continuous wedge; the A-B edge loop is much more elongated and tilted, however, wrapping around the S-loop and the beta-sheet rim of the MT1-MMP. In addition, both C-terminal edge loops make more interactions with the target enzyme. The C-terminal acidic tail of TIMP-2 is disordered but might adopt a defined structure upon binding to pro-MMP-2; the Ser2 side-chain of TIMP-2 extends into the voluminous S1' specificity pocket of cdMT1-MMP, with its Ogamma pointing towards the carboxylate of the catalytic Glu240. The lower affinity of TIMP-1 for MT1-MMP compared with TIMP-2 might be explained by a reduced number of favourable interactions.
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TL;DR: Impairing autophagy by disabling the lysosome function is being investigated as an adjuvant therapeutic approach to sensitize cells to apoptosis-inducing agents as well as a promising strategy in this context as it would not only disable Autophagy, but also promote apoptosis through the initiation of thelysosomal pathway.
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TL;DR: Liquid processing techniques, based on iterative centrifugation cascades, can be designed to achieve either highly efficient nanosheet size-selection and/or monolayer enrichment to enrich liquid exfoliated WS2 dispersions.
Abstract: While liquid exfoliation is a powerful technique to produce defect-free nanosheets in large quantities, its usefulness is limited by broad nanosheet thickness distributions and low monolayer contents. Here we demonstrate liquid processing techniques, based on iterative centrifugation cascades, which can be designed to achieve either highly efficient nanosheet size-selection and/or monolayer enrichment. The resultant size-selected dispersions were used to establish quantitative metrics to determine monolayer volume fraction, as well as mean nanosheet size and thickness, from standard spectroscopic measurements. Such metrics allowed us to design and optimize centrifugation cascades to enrich liquid exfoliated WS2 dispersions up to monolayer contents of 75%. Monolayer-rich dispersions show relatively bright photoluminescence with narrow line widths (<35 meV) indicating the high quality of the nanosheets. The enriched dispersions display extinction spectra with distinct features, which also allow the direct e...
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TL;DR: 3-D vision on humanoid robots with complex oculomotor systems is often difficult due to the modeling uncertainties, but it is shown that these uncertainties can be accounted for by the proposed approach.
Abstract: Acquisition of new sensorimotor knowledge by imitation is a promising paradigm for robot learning. To be effective, action learning should not be limited to direct replication of movements obtained during training but must also enable the generation of actions in situations a robot has never encountered before. This paper describes a methodology that enables the generalization of the available sensorimotor knowledge. New actions are synthesized by the application of statistical methods, where the goal and other characteristics of an action are utilized as queries to create a suitable control policy, taking into account the current state of the world. Nonlinear dynamic systems are employed as a motor representation. The proposed approach enables the generation of a wide range of policies without requiring an expert to modify the underlying representations to account for different task-specific features and perceptual feedback. The paper also demonstrates that the proposed methodology can be integrated with an active vision system of a humanoid robot. 3-D vision data are used to provide query points for statistical generalization. While 3-D vision on humanoid robots with complex oculomotor systems is often difficult due to the modeling uncertainties, we show that these uncertainties can be accounted for by the proposed approach.
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Vladimir Cindro | 129 | 1157 | 82000 |
Igor Mandić | 128 | 1065 | 79498 |
Jure Leskovec | 127 | 473 | 89014 |
Matej Orešič | 82 | 352 | 26830 |
P. Križan | 78 | 749 | 26408 |
Jose Miguel Miranda | 76 | 336 | 18080 |
Vito Turk | 74 | 271 | 23205 |
Andrii Tykhonov | 73 | 270 | 24864 |
Masashi Yokoyama | 73 | 310 | 18817 |
Kostya Ostrikov | 72 | 763 | 21442 |
M. Starič | 71 | 530 | 19136 |
Boris Turk | 67 | 231 | 27006 |
Bostjan Kobe | 66 | 279 | 17592 |
Jure Zupan | 61 | 228 | 12054 |
Mario Sannino | 60 | 281 | 17144 |