INFLUENCE OF ION ATTACHMENT ON THE VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE ELECTRIC FIELD AND CHARGE DENSITY BELOW A THUNDERSTORM

Influence of ion attachment on the vertical distribution of the electric field and charge density below a thunderstorm

A numerical model called PICASSO [Production d'Ions Corona Au Sol Sous Orage (French) and Production of Corona Ions at the Ground Beneath Thundercloud (English)], previously designed, is used to describe the evolution of the principal electrical parameters below a thunderstorm, taking into read more account the major part played by corona ions

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The bacterial fimbrial tip acts as a mechanical force sensor.

There is increasing evidence that the catch bond mechanism, where binding becomes stronger under tensile force, is a common property among non-covalent interactions between biological molecules that are exposed to mechanical force in vivo.Here, by using the multi-protein tip complex of the mannose-binding type 1 fimbriae of Escherichia coli, we sho

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Modeling Human Innate Immune Response Using Graph Neural Networks

Since the rapid outbreak of Covid-19, profound research interest has emerged to understand the innate immune response to viruses to enable appropriate vaccination.This understanding can help to inhibit virus replication, prolong adaptive immune response, accelerated virus clearance, and tissue recovery, a key milestone to combat coronaviruses (CoVs

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