Rafael A. Garcia

Characterizing Wool Keratin (2009)

Jeanette M. Cardamone, Alberto Nuñez, Rafael A. Garcia, Mila Aldema-Ramos

Keratin from wool is a reactive, biocompatible, and biodegradable material. As the biological structural component of skin (soft keratins) and of nails, claws, hair, horn, feathers, and scales (hard...

Characterizing Wool Keratin (2009)

Jeanette M. Cardamone, Alberto Nuñez, Rafael A. Garcia, Mila Aldema-Ramos

Keratin from wool is a reactive, biocompatible, and biodegradable material. As the biological structural component of skin (soft keratins) and of nails, claws, hair, horn, feathers, and scales (hard...

A multi-site campaign to measure solar-like oscillations in Procyon. I. Observations, Data Reduction and Slow Variations (2008)

Arentoft, Torben, Kjeldsen, Hans, Bedding, Timothy R., Bazot, Michael, Christensen-Dalsgaard, Joergen, Dall, Thomas H., ...

We have carried out a multi-site campaign to measure oscillations in the F5 star Procyon A. We obtained high-precision velocity observations over more than three weeks with eleven telescopes, with...

GOLF - NG spectrometer, a space prototype for studying the dynamics of the deep solar interior (2005)

Chieze, Sylvaine Turck, Carton, Pierre Henri, Ballot, Jerome, Barriere, Jean Christophe, Thomas, Philippe Daniel, Delbart, Alain, ...

The GOLFNG (Global Oscillations at Low Frequency New Generation) instrument is devoted to the search for solar gravity and acoustic modes, and also chromospheric modes from space. This instrument...

An extension of LaSalle's invariance principle for switched systems (2005)

Mancilla-Aguilar, Jose Luis, Garcia, Rafael A.

This paper addresses invariance principles for a certain class of switched nonlinear systems. We provide an extension of LaSalle's Invariance Principle for these systems and state asymptotic...

Prion Infected Meat-and-Bone Meal Is Still Infectious after Biodiesel Production

Bruederle, Cathrin E., Hnasko, Robert M., Kraemer, Thomas, Garcia, Rafael A., Haas, Michael J., Marmer, William N., ...

The epidemic of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) has led to a world-wide drop in the market for beef by-products, such as Meat-and-Bone Meal (MBM), a fat-containing but mainly proteinaceaous...