... releasing Another problem arising is the long-range effect of microscopic forces such as thevanderWaals force The significant amount ofthevanderWaals force can disturb thedynamicsofthe ... vanderWaals force It also examines the ability ofthe control laws in attenuating the effect ofvanderWaals force on the system The control laws covered includes both linear and nonlinear A ... so that the retardation effect ofthevanderWaals force is neglected Therefore, only non-retarded vanderWaalsforces are considered Chapter VanderWaals Force 3.4 18 Hamaker Constant In determining...
... and his unpublished data (Kaminaka, personal communication) These data were obtained from a similarly aged (ca 50 years) Castanopsis cuspidata stand near the study site This adjacent stand has ... Fluctuation in annual leaf input and the first peak of leaf input (April–May) before and after the T9119 disturbance The closed circles are annual leaf input values; the closed squares are the ... survivors) In 1992, the annual leaf input and the first peak of leaf input (April–May) decreased to 35% and 25% ofthe respective preT9119 disturbance values obtained for an adjacent stand (annual leaf...
... correlated systems, the excited states and thevanderWaals interactions properly, neither Moreover, finding an accurate and universally-applicable Exc remains 18 Chapter Methodology a significant ... faces to graphene and is above the hole center of graphene’s hexagonal lattice, is the most stable configuration The approximately quadratic increase, rather than exponential increase, indicates ... Topological insulator and topological phase transition in 2D materials Topological insulator (TI) is an exotic quantum phase state of matter, with charge excitation gaps inthe bulk and gapless Dirac...
... transitions amongst internal states ofvanderWaals dimers Vibrationally averaged effects have always injected uncertainty into the derivation of basic structural parameters, ' and inthe case of fluxional ... versions ofthe structures participating inthe motion Theory plays an invaluable part inthe analysis and characterisation of these species Often only a very small portion ofa spectrum is available ... are attractive in that they offer an understanding oftheforces involved but not easily lead to ac curate calculation Inthe last two decades, as theoretical and computational chemistry have emerged...
... polycrystalline layer made up of grains which have a great disparity of shape and size In this work, the grains are supposed to be quasi-spherical, identical in size, and single-crystal They are jointed, ... weak and does not involve electronic transfer, the electrons ofthe atom or the molecule remain located inthe vicinity ofthe adsorbate involving a simple deformation ofthe orbitals The binding ... finally studied at the end of this article In each case, the interaction between the semiconductor material and the gases is approached by means ofthe adsorption theory of Wolkenstein in order...
... several ways For a1 n x a2 n x2 is the remainder ofthe division of xn by the instance, one has that a0 n characteristic polynomial ofA Further, by elementary techniques of linear algebra one can ... can also compute them in terms ofthe eigenvalues ofA an approach using the solutions to an associated linear difference equation may be seen in Remark 2.2 As mentioned inthe introduction, all ... the stability of fixed points in some ofthe cases Recall that a fixed point of our system x∗ , y∗ always verifies y∗ λ for some real eigenvalue λ ofthe matrix A We will say in such case that the...
... Plantation Plantation Plantation 22 30 42 42 49 73 95 Natural Natural Natural Natural Plantation Plantation Natural Natural 40 54 Plantation 60 28 Plantation Plantation 450 Natural Plantation Age ... magnesium are released at the soil surface, counteracting the desaturation and the aluminisation ofthe soil exchangeable pool In acid soils with low amounts of Ca-bearing minerals as inthe present ... UNISTAT statistical package (v 5.0) in order to compare the data ofthe three stands ofthe chronosequence Analysis of variance was used to identify the main factors of variability from the whole...
... at the strategies used by Ellina binti Abdul Majid in Perhaps in Paradise to dramatize the theme ofa girl inthe process of becoming woman Chapter Eleven examines Playing Madame Mao to evaluate ... communication at the start ofthe narrative Take for instance the novel, The Soul of Malaya (1931), by Henry Fauconnier The language in use at a certain point inthe novel is signalled to the reader, ... The National Language (Bahasa Kebangsaan) which is standard Malay became gradually the medium of instruction in all schools in Malaysia after 1976 Although English was phased out slowly as a medium...
... diffusing away from the surface back into the gas phase PECVD Si3N4 films are used effectively as final passivation layers often in combination with an oxide layer in IC, UV-erasable EPROM and GaAs ... atoms are maintained relatively intact Hence, weak VanderWaalsforcesof attraction or dipole-dipole interactions keep film and substrate together The resultant film is physisorbed onto the substrate, ... α-Ta was the resultant phase With increased substrate bias, β-Ta was deposited The effect of substrate bias appears to be dominant inthe growth phase and not inthe nucleation phase of Ta deposition...
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... because WO3 has a coefficient thermal expansion smaller than glass does and because ofthe heteroepitaxial growth of films WO3 in which the parameters of plane ITO (440) are slightly larger than ... Scherrer also shows that the size of grains in all WO3 films is about 30 – 35 nm Moreover the annealing process and the breakage ofthe double bonds W = O also result inthe limit ofthe shift to the ... preferentially, (020) and (200) peaks are weakened down to the font of (001) peak In these films WO3 particles are well crystallized For a Raman spectrum of that film, peaks, characterizing crystalline...
... Department of Biotechnology (Govt of India) for partial financial support The authors thank Dinesh Kumar for recording the scanning electron micrographs and Shivcharan Prasad and Pinakin Makwana for ... MPTP alone The apparent rate constant of aggregation inthepresenceof dopamine was significantly higher (0.25 h)1) than inthepresenceof MPTP alone (0.096 h)1) This indicates a faster rate of ... urea Effect of dopamine on MPTP and MPP+ induced changes in kinetics ofthe aggregation of a- synuclein a- Synuclein was incubated inthepresenceof 100 lm MPTP, along with 50 lm dopamine Aliquots...
... pay their restaurant bills or cab fares without even considering the alternative “indicates that a certain basic level of honesty, practiced as a matter of habit rather than rational calculation, ... to gain and maintain that status by adhering to certain standards: producing and marketing quality products and services at reasonable prices, providing steady employment ina healthy and safe ... technology was underway, and the global financial markets chased its upside Among the effects of this trend was a rapid increase in corporate buyouts The corporate raiders ofthe era argued that the...
... 269) Table Glycosaminoglycan analysis and calcium measurements ofthe water-soluble matrix, the EDTA-soluble matrix and the EDTA-insoluble matrix of Pinctada maxima nacre Sulfated and nonsulfated ... estimated by the Whiteman Alcian blue binding technique [28,29], using chondroitin sulfate as standard The assay was adapted to the estimation of GAG in more dilute samples by increasing the aliquot ... spite ofthepresenceof mineral, it was possible to analyze the amino acid composition ofthe water insoluble matrix (WIM) Again we found a high content in Gly-Ala, and the global composition was...
... appreciated by taking the derivative ofthe fitting functions ofthe mutant and wild-type data and plotting their ratio, as in Fig 1C This derivative represents the rate of ATP synthesis at each ... When the assay contained valinomycin, the data reported in Fig 1B were obtained In this case, the ATP yield of both wild-type and mutant as a function of illumination time presented a lag phase ... RESULTS The single point mutation aE210K was introduced into the atp2 operon of Rb capsulatus, containing the F0 genes, cloned in an E coli strain The mutated operon was then transferred into a broad-host-range...
... the bag." The Captain saw it at once and laughed heartily over the error he had fallen into inthe latter part of his "first appearance" as captain, in drilling the company as infantry He made ... introduced into the army after he was graduated at the Military Academy In practical engineer drills the Captain was always in control After the men were passably well drilled inthe "Infantry School of ... necessary for the arrival ofthe captain commander in this city" Owing to casualties of service, I had almost continually commanded the company, its train, and the general engineer train ofthe army for...
... 5¢-d(TCAGAAATTAAAGCGG ATGCATTATTTGCATG)-3¢ The upstream primer containing the NdeI restriction site (underlined) was: 5¢-d(GCTAGCATATGAAGCTTAAA AAAATTG)-3¢ and the downstream primer containing the ... clashes with the aromatic ring of Tyr269, and these unfavorable interactions could lead to a decrease of local flexibility and an increased Ea value The validity ofthe above interpretation was ... value almost 2.5-fold higher than the native cold adapted enzyme (Table 1) The mutant G26 1A/ Y26 9A exhibits an Ea almost the same as inthe case ofthe native enzyme (Table 1) Thermal inactivation...