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  • Tactile sensing in dexterous robot hands – review 
    Kappassov, Zhanat; Corrales, Juan-Antonio; Perdereau, Véronique (2016-05-06)
    Tactile sensing is an essential element of autonomous dexterous robot hand manipulation. It provides information about forces of interaction and surface properties at points of contact between the robot fingers and the ...
  • Targeting Mechanotransduction at theTranscriptional Level: YAPandBRD4 Are Novel Therapeutic Targets for the Reversal of Liver Fibrosis 
    Zhubanchaliyev, Altynbek; Temirbekuly, Aibar; Kongrtay, Kuralay; Wanshura, Leah C.; Kunz, Jeannette (Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2016-12-01)
    Liver fibrosis is the result of a deregulated wound healing process characterized by the excessive deposition of extracellular matrix. Hepatic stellate cells (HSCs), which are activated in response to liver injury, are the ...
  • Technical manual: a survey of scintillating medium for high-energy particle detection 
    Baitenov, Adil; Iakovlev, Alexander; Beznosko, Dmitriy (2016)
    There are various particle detection methods used nowadays and the most common is using scintillators. Among scintillating materials, solid plastic and water-based liquid scintillators (WbLS) are the latest development. ...
  • Terminating black holes in asymptotically free quantum gravity 
    Bambi, Cosimo; Malafarina, D.; Modesto, Leonardo (2014-02-03)
    We study the homogeneous gravitational collapse of a spherical cloud of matter in a super-renormalizable and asymptotically free theory of gravity. We nd a picture that di ers substantially from the classical scenario. ...
  • The Asymmetric Active Coupler: Stable Nonlinear Supermodes and Directed Transport 
    Kominis, Yannis; Bountis, Tassos; Flach, Sergej (Scientific Reports, 2016-09-19)
    We consider the asymmetric active coupler (AAC) consisting of two coupled dissimilar waveguides with gain and loss. We show that under generic conditions, not restricted by parity-time symmetry, there exist finite-power, ...
  • The distributed particle detectors and data acquisition modules for Extensive Air Shower measurements at "HT-KZ" experiment 
    Duspayev, A.; Batyrkhanov, A.; Beremkulov, T.; Beznosko, Dmitriy; Iakovlev, A.; Yessenov, M.; Beisembaev, R. U.; Zhukov, V. V. (2015)
    "HorizonT-Kazakhstan" (HT-KZ) is an extensive air shower new detector system of a new type to be constructed at Nazarbayev University (NU), Astana, KZ. It is based on the idea of a previous generation detector that is ...
  • The gamma half-Cauchy distribution: Properties and applications 
    Alzaatreh, Ayman; Mansoory, M.; Tahirz, M. H.; Zubair, M.; Ghazalik, Shakir Ali (Hacettepe Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, 2016)
    A new distribution, namely, the Gamma-Half-Cauchy distribution is proposed. Various properties of the Gamma-Half-Cauchy distribution are studied in detail such as limiting behavior, moments, mean deviations and Shannon ...
  • The general solution for relativistic spherical shells 
    Kijowski, J.; Magli, G.; Malafarina, D. (2005)
    The general exact solution of the Einstein-matter field equations describing spherically symmetric shells satisfying an equation of state in closed form is discussed under general assumptions of physical reasonableness. ...
  • The “Horizon-T” Experiment: Extensive Air Showers Detection 
    Beisembaev, R . U .; Beisembaeva, E.A.; Dalkarov, O.D.; Ryabov, V.A.; Stepanov, A.V.; Vildanov, N.G.; Vildanova, M.I.; Zhukov, V.V.; Baigarin, K.A.; Beznosko, Dmitriy; Sadykov, T.X.; Suleymenov, N.S (arXiv.org, 2016)
    Horizon - T is a n innovative detector system constructed to study Extensive Air Showers (EAS) in the energy range above 10 16 eV coming from a wide range of zenith angles (0 o - 85 o ). The system ...
  • The implementation of the computer system Aleks for placement in mathematical courses at Nazarbayev university 
    Adaricheva, Kira; Assylbekov, Zh. (Nazarbayev University School of Science and Technology, 2013)
    The ALEKS computer system, well-known on the American con- tinent as an individualized teaching tool and placement test into a series of high school and college level courses, was implemented by the Mathematics Department ...
  • The instability of black hole formation in gravitational collapse 
    Joshi, Pankaj S.; Malafarina, D. (2011-01-11)
    We consider here the classic scenario given by Oppenheimer, Snyder, and Datt, for the gravitational collapse of a massive matter cloud, and examine its stability under the introduction of small tangential stresses. We show, ...
  • The logistic-X family of distributions and its applications 
    Tahir, M. H.; Cordeiro, Gauss M.; Alzaatreh, Ayman; Mansoor, M.; Zubair, M. (Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 2016-12-16)
    The logistic distribution has a prominent role in the theory and practice of statistics. We introduce a new family of continuous distributions generated from a logistic random variable called the logistic-X family. Its ...
  • Theoretical concepts of unlimited-power reflectors, absorbers, and emitters with conjugately matched layers 
    Valagiannopoulos, Constantinos; Tretyakov, Sergei A. (American Physical Society, 2016-09-12)
    Recently, it was shown that by using special artificial materials it is possible to ensure that all electromagnetic modes of free space are conjugately matched to the modes of a material body and, thus, all modes deliver ...
  • Theoretical design of triphenylamine-based derivatives with asymmetric D–D–π–A configuration for dye-sensitized solar cells 
    Balanay, Mannix P.; Enopia, Camille Marie G.; Lee, Sang Hee; Kim, Dong Hee (Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 2015-04-05)
    Abstract The use of theoretical techniques in the structural development of dye-sensitized solar cells helps in the efficient screening of the dyes. To properly rationalize the dye’s design process, benchmark calculations ...
  • Theory and application of explicitly correlated Gaussians 
    Mitroy, Jim; Bubin, Sergiy; Horiuchi, Wataru; Suzuki, Yasuyuki; Adamowicz, Ludwik; Cencek, Wojciech; Szalewicz, Krzysztof; Komasa, Jacek; Blume, D.; Varga, Ka´lma´n (2013)
    The variational method complemented with the use of explicitly correlated Gaussian basis functions is one of the most powerful approaches currently used for calculating the properties of few-body systems. Despite its ...
  • The p90 Ribosomal S6 Kinase (RSK) Is a Mediator of Smooth Muscle Contractility 
    Artamonov, Mykhaylo; Momotani, Ko; Utepbergenov, Darkhan; Franke, Aaron; Khromov, Alexander; Derewenda, Zygmunt S.; Somlyo, Avril V. (2013)
    In the canonical model of smooth muscle (SM) contraction, the contractile force is generated by phosphorylation of the myosin regulatory light chain (RLC20) by the myosin light chain kinase (MLCK). Moreover, phosphorylation ...
  • Thermodynamics and gravitational collapse 
    Malafarina, D.; Joshi, Pankaj S. (2011-06-19)
    It is known now that a typical gravitational collapse in general relativity, evolving from regular initial data and under physically reasonable conditions would end in either a black hole or a naked singularity final state. ...
  • Thermodynamics and the naked singularity in the Gamma-metric 
    Lochan, K.; Malafarina, D.; Singh, T.P. (2010-09-23)
    We investigate a possible way of establishing a parallel between the third law of black hole mechanics, and the strong version of the third law of thermodynamics. We calculate the surface gravity and area for a naked ...
  • The T2K Experiment 
    Beznosko, Dmitriy (2011)
    The T2K experiment is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. Its main goal is to measure the last unknown lepton sector mixing angle 13 by observing e appearance in a beam. It also aims to make a precision ...
  • The T2K ND280 Off-Axis Pi-Zero Detector 
    Beznosko, Dmitriy (2012)
    The Pi-Zero detector (PØD) is one of the subdetectors that makes up the off-axis near detector for the Tokai-to-Kamioka (T2K) long baseline neutrino experiment. The primary goal for the PØD is to measure the relevant ...