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2025, Banach Journal of Mathematical Analysis

By using Blunck's operator-valued Fourier multiplier theorem, we completely characterize the existence and uniqueness of solutions in Lebesgue sequence spaces for a discrete version of the Cauchy problem with fractional order 1 < α ≤ 2. This characterization is given solely in spectral terms on the data of the problem, whenever the underlying Banach space belongs to the UMD-class.

2025, Banach Journal of Mathematical Analysis

By using Blunck's operator-valued Fourier multiplier theorem, we completely characterize the existence and uniqueness of solutions in Lebesgue spaces of sequences for a discrete version of the Cauchy problem with fractional order 1 < α ≤ 2. This characterization is given solely in spectral terms on the data of the problem, whenever the underlying Banach space belongs to the U M D-class.

2025

Block copolymers can be used as a template to order nanoparticles to obtain functional polymer nanocomposites. While progress has been made in understanding the distribution of spherical particles in the block copolymer, significantly less work has focused on the distribution of nanorods in block copolymers. Nanocomposites containing anisotropic particles could have enhanced mechanic, electrical and optical properties and become candidates for numerous applications such as conductive membranes or coatings with controlled optical properties. Understanding the thermodynamic origins that regulate the distribution of nanorods in block copolymers is of central importance in obtaining desired structures, and molecular modeling could be a powerful tool to guide experiments. In the talk, I will first introduce our extension of polymer field theory that enables the study of the equilibrium properties of block copolymer thin films containing nanorods. Then I will present how the geometry of the nanorod, including its aspect ratio and size, affects the distribution of nanorods in thin films. Finally, we will examine the role of surface wetting on the distribution of nanorods. We find the rods segregate to defects in the block copolymer structure, which agrees well with ongoing experiment.

2025, Combinatorial Pattern Matching

Crystal lattices are infinite periodic graphs that occur naturally in a variety of geometries a d which are of fundamental importance in polymer science. Discrete models of protein fold-;kg use crystal lattices to define the space of protein conformations. Because various q s t a l lxtices provide discretizations of the same physical phenomenon] it is reasonable to expect &t there will exist "invariants" across lattices that define fundamental properties of protein fdding process; an invariant defines a property that transcends particular lattice formulations. This paper identifies two classes of invariants, defined in terms of sublattices that are related 1-0 the design of algorithms for the structlire prediction problem. The first class of inxafiants E used to define a master approximation algorithm for which provhble performance g u m r m e s i s t . This algorithm can be applied to generalizations of the hydrophobic-hydrophilic model that have lattices other than the cubic lattice, including most of the crystal lattices commonly Ked in protein folding lattice models. The second class of invariants applies to a related h t i c e model. Using these invariants, we show that for this model the structure prediction problem is iatractable across a variety of three-dimensional lattices. It turns out that these two clof inlaxiants are respectively sublattices of the two-and three-dimensional square lattice. -4s the quare lattices are the standard lattices used in empirical protein folding studies, our results pmvide a rigorous confirmation of the ability of these lattices to provide insight into biological phenomenon. Our results are the first in the literature that identify algorithmic paradigms fm &e protein structure prediction problem which transcend particular lattice formulations.

2025, arXiv (Cornell University)

We study the pedestrian escape from an obscure corridor using a lattice gas model with two species of particles. One species, called passive, performs a symmetric random walk on the lattice, whereas the second species, called active, is subject to a drift guiding the particles towards the exit. The drift mimics the awareness of some pedestrians of the geometry of the corridor and of the location of the exit. We provide numerical evidence that, in spite of the hard core interaction between particles -namely, there can be at most one particle of any species per site, -adding a fraction of active particles in the system enhances the evacuation rate of all particles from the corridor. A similar effect is also observed when looking at the outgoing particle flux, when the system is in contact with an external particle reservoir that induces the onset of a steady state. We interpret this phenomenon as a discrete space counterpart of the drafting effect typically observed in a continuum set-up as the aerodynamic drag experienced by pelotons of competing cyclists.

2025

This article analyzes F\olner sequences of projections for bounded linear operators and their relationship to the class of finite operators introduced by Williams in the 70ies. We prove that each essentially hyponormal operator has a proper F\olner sequence (i.e. a F\olner sequence of projections strongly converging to 1). In particular, any quasinormal, any subnormal, any hyponormal and any essentially normal operator has a proper F\olner sequence. Moreover, we show that an operator is finite if and only if it has a proper F\olner sequence or if it has a non-trivial finite dimensional reducing subspace. We also analyze the structure of operators which have no F\olner sequence and give examples of them. For this analysis we introduce the notion of strongly non-F\olner operators, which are far from finite block reducible operators, in some uniform sense, and show that this class coincides with the class of non-finite operators.

2025, Lecture Notes in Computer Science

2025, arXiv (Cornell University)

In this note we consider a Markov chain formed by a finite system of interacting birth-and-death processes on a finite state space. We study an asymptotic behaviour of the Markov chain as its state space becomes large. In particular, we show that the appropriately scaled Markov chain converges to a diffusion process, and derive conditions for existence of the stationary distribution of the limit diffusion process in special cases.

2024, Journal of Statistical Physics

The automaton known as 'Langton's ant' exhibits a dynamical transition from a disordered phase to an ordered phase where the particle dynamics (the ant) produces a regular periodic pattern (called 'highway'). Despite the simplicity of its basic algorithm, Langton's ant has remained a puzzle in terms of analytical description. Here I show that the highway dynamics obeys a discrete equation where from the speed of the ant (c = √ 2/52) follows exactly.

2024, Bulletin of the American Physical Society

2024

We continue our study of a q-difference version of a second-order differential operator which depends on a real parameter. This version was introduced in our previous three articles on the subject. First we study general symmetric and scale-invariant operators on a Hilbert space. We show that if the index of defect of the operator under consideration is (1, 1), then the operator either does not admit any scale-invariant self-adjoint extension, or it admits exactly one scale-invariant self-adjoint extension, or it admits exactly two scale-invariant self-adjoint extensions, or all self-adjoint extensions are scale invariant. We then apply these results to the differential operator and the corresponding difference operator under consideration. For the continuous case, we show that the interval of the parameter, for which the differential operator is not semi-bounded, contains an infinite sequence of values for which all self-adjoint extensions are scale-invariant, while for the remaini...

2024, Acta Botanica Brasilica

RESUMO: A cultura de anteras tem sido largamente utilizada para obtenção de linhagens duplo-haplóides homozigotas em apenas uma geração ao invés das sete requeridas pelos programas convencionais de melhoramento. A cevada é uma das espécies cultivadas p'lra a qual esta técnica encontra-se bem estabelecida embora, a resposta varie grande mente em função do ge nótipo e das condiçõ.es ambientais de cultivo das plantas doadoras. P0I1anto, para empregar esta técnica como apoio ao melhoramento, é necessário adaptar meios e métodos para satisfazer os requelimentos específicos de cada material. O objetivo deste trabalho foi estudar a capacidade androgenética de híbridos entre cultivares e linhagens brasileiras de cevada e estabelecer um protocolo eficiente de regeneração de duplo-haplóides em número suficiente para viabilizar a sua utilização. Dois meios de cultura foram utilizados para indução de androgênese , N6 e MS, com pequenas modificações. A eficiência dos tratamentos foi avaliada através da freqüência de anteras responsivas e de regeneração de plantas verdes, porcentagem de albinismo e duplicação espontânea. Foi feita uma análise citológica e hi stológica no decOITer da cultura com o intuito de compreender melhor a gênese dos duplo-haplóides produzidos in "vitro". Os resultados mostram que a porcentagem média de anteras responsivas no meio N6 (30,32%) foi maior do que no meio MS (6,39%). Observou-se uma considerável influência do genótipo dos pais utilizados nos cruzamentos: alguns têm maior capacidade androgenética, ou por apresentarem um elevado número de. anteras responsivas, ou por regenerarem plantas com maior freqüência. Diferentes genótipos diferem, também, quanto à freqüência de albinismo e duplicação espontânea entre as plantas regeneradas. A análise citológica e histológica dos grãos-de-pólen confirmou a adoção de um padrão esporofítico de desenvolvimento, através de mitoses subseqüentes que levam à formação de grãos-de-pólen multicelulares, em um primeiro momento, e à formaçâo de embriões ou de massas celulares desorganizadas, os calos, logo a seguir. Estas estruturas diferenciaram-se no próprio meio de indução, dando oligem a plantas verdes e albinas. Um total de 192 plantas duplo-haplóides, originadas de diferentes genótipos, foram cultivadas até a produção de grãos. As sementes foram coletadas, multiplicadas e estão sendo avaliadas agronomicamente.

2024, Physical Review Letters

A new distribution for systems of particles in equilibrium obeying exclusion of correlated states is presented following the Haldane's state counting. It relies upon an ansatz to deal with the multiple exclusion that takes place when the states accessible to single particles are spatially correlated and it can be simultaneously excluded by more than one particle. The Haldane's statistics and Wu's distribution are recovered in the limit of non-correlated states of the multiple exclusion statistics. In addition, an exclusion spectrum function G(n) is introduced to account for the dependence of the state exclusion on the occupation-number n. Results of thermodynamics and state occupation are shown for ideal lattice gases of linear particles of size k (k-mers) where multiple exclusion occurs. Remarkable agreement is found with Grand-Canonical Monte Carlo simulations from k=2 to 10 where multiple exclusion dominates as k increases.

2024, RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

Most derivative securities must be priced by numerical techniques. These models contain`distribution errora and`nonlinearity errora. The Adaptive Mesh Model (AMM) sharply reduces nonlinearity error by grafting one or more small sections of "ne high-resolution lattice onto a tree with coarser time and price steps. Three di!erent AMM structures are presented, one for pricing ordinary options, one for barrier options, and one for computing delta and gamma e$ciently. The AMM approach can be adapted to a wide variety of contingent claims. For some common problems, accuracy increases by several orders of magnitude with no increase in execution time.

2024, Acta Botanica Brasilica

2024, arXiv (Cornell University)

This is a series of 5 lectures around the common subject of the construction of self-adjoint extensions of symmetric operators and its applications to Quantum Physics. We will try to offer a brief account of some recent ideas in the theory of self-adjoint extensions of symmetric operators on Hilbert spaces and their applications to a few specific problems in Quantum Mechanics.

2024, Holzforschung

Summary The transverse mechanical properties of the wood fibre play important roles in the use of wood and its fibres in various applications. However, the variation in properties of fibres from different parts of the tree and the relation of these properties to the structure of the fibre is not yet established. This study focuses on the variation in the transverse elastic modulus of the fibre wall and its relation to the fibril structure of the S2- and S1-layer. For this reason the local fibril angle of radial and tangential fibre walls were measured by polarisation confocal microscopy. It was shown that the variation in fibril angle of the S2-layer seems to have very little influence on the transverse modulus of the fibres. Instead the thickness and fibril angle of the S1- and thus also the S3-layer should contribute to the variation in transverse modulus between earlywood and transition wood fibres. The importance of the ray cells for the transverse elastic properties of the wood...

2024, Journal of Statistical Physics

We consider the nite-di erence counterpart, i. e. the true lattice analog of Maxwell's equations and equations that govern the propagation of acoustic waves in a medium with a periodic dielectric structure. In particular, the vector nature of electromagnetic waves is fully taken into account. The existence of true gaps for these lattice models is proved for a two-component medium for which the dielectric constant i s e v erywhere real and positive, and the dielectric constant o f the background is essentially larger than the one corresponding to the embedded component.

2024, Journal of Statistical Physics

2024, Annales Henri Poincaré

We consider ferromagnetic long-range Ising models which display phase transitions. They are one-dimensional Ising ferromagnets, in which the interaction is given by Jx,y = J(|x − y|) ≡ 1 |x−y| 2−α with α ∈ [0, 1), in particular, J(1) = 1. For this class of models one way in which one can prove the phase transition is via a kind of Peierls contour argument, using the adaptation of the Fröhlich-Spencer contours for α = 0, proposed by Cassandro, Ferrari, Merola and Presutti. As proved by Fröhlich and Spencer for α = 0 and conjectured by Cassandro et al for the region they could treat, α ∈ (0, α+) for α+ = log(3)/ log(2)−1, although in the literature dealing with contour methods for these models it is generally assumed that J(1) ≫ 1, we will show that this condition can be removed in the contour analysis. In addition, combining our theorem with a recent result of Littin and Picco we prove the persistence of the contour proof of the phase transition for any α ∈ [0, 1). Moreover, we show that when we add a magnetic field decaying to zero, given by hx = h * •(1+|x|) −γ and γ > max{1 − α, 1 − α * } where α * ≈ 0.2714, the transition still persists.

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2024, This Digital Resource was created from scans of the Print Resource

This study discusses a new constitutive model called the High-Rate-Brittle (HRB) Microplane model and also presents the details of a new software package called the Virtual Materials Laboratory (VML). The VML software package was develope' d to address the challenges of fitting complex material models such as the HRB Microplane model to material property test data, and to study the behavior of those models under a wide variety of stress-and strain-paths. The VML code is used to fit the new HRB Microplane model to a well-characterized conventional strength concrete called WESsooo. The ability of the HRB Microplane model to provide high-fidelity simulations of material property experiments was also demonstrated. Finally, the behavior of the HRB Microplane model was examined with respect to penetration applications of interest. It was shown that, when adequately fit to the quasi-static material data, the HRB Microplane model did not have significant predictive capabilities. This was attributed to the rate-dependent response of the material. After various rate effects were introduced into the HRB Microplane model, the quantitative predictive nature of the calculations dramatically increased. DISCLAIMER: The contents of this report are not to be used for advertising, publication, or promotional purposes. Citation of trade names does not constitute an official endorsement or approval of the use of such commercial products. All product names and trademarks cited are the property of their respective owners. The findings of this report are not to be construed as an official Department of the Army position unless so designated by other authorized documents.

2024, Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society - Simon Stevin

The paper studies bounded or unbounded operators which can act as analysis operators or synthesis operators of various signal processing including generalized frames, semi-frames, discrete frames, Fourier transforms, etc. The paper is... more

2024, Journal of Applied Polymer Science

Calculations for maximum volume fraction (φm) for a monomodal and a bimodal dispersion are given. These are extended to express the volume fraction of dispersed phase (φ < φm) for a bimodal distribution. By substituting the volume fraction, so obtained, various semiempirical laws relating relative viscosity to the volume fraction of the dispersed phase for monomodal dispersions can be extended to bimodal dispersions also. It was mathematically shown that the viscosity of a bimodal dispersion shows a minimum for a particular size ratio of small to large particles for a given relative number concentrations of small to large particles and the interspacing between the small and the large particles. Also, it was shown that an increase in the relative number concentrations of small to large particles, keeping the size ratio of small to large particles and the interspacing between the small and the large particles constant, always increases viscosity. These findings also have practical ...

2024, FEBS Letters

A small number of folding patterns describe in outline most of the known protein globules, the same folds being found in non‐homologous proteins with different functions. We show that the ‘popular’ folding patterns are those which, due to some thennodynamic advantages of their structure, can be stabilized by a lot of random sequences. In contrast, the folds which are rarely or never observed in natural globular proteins can be stabilized only by a tiny number of random sequences. The advantageous folds are few, they tolerate various primary structures, and therefore they can and ought to perform different functions. A connection between the inherent ‘weak points’ of protein folding patterns and positions of active sites are discussed.

2024, Physical Review E

In the absence of RecA-mediated cleavage of the repressor, the λ prophage is exceptionally stable. In fact, the repressed state is then more stable than the gene encoding the repressor. We develop a mathematical treatment that predicts the stability of such epigenetic states from affinities of the molecular components. We apply the model to the behavior of recently published mutants of O R and find that their observed stability indicates that the current view of the O R switch is incomplete. The approach described here should be generally applicable to the stability of expressed states.

2024, International Journal of Modern Physics B

In this paper, we study a model of resonant multilead point-contact tunneling by using the boundary state formulation. At a critical point, the model is described by multiflavor chiral fermions on an infinite line with a point contact interaction at the origin. By applying the folding procedure, previously developed for the model of resonant point-contact tunneling of a single lead, we map the model onto a nonchiral fermion model defined on the half line. The resonant point-contact tunneling interaction is transcribed into a nonlocal effective boundary interaction in the folded setup, where the boundary state formulation is applicable. We construct the boundary states for the models with two and three leads explicitly and evaluate the correlation functions of currents operators exactly. The electron transport between the leads is dominated by the resonant point-contact tunneling in the low frequency regime. We observe some [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] group theoretica...

2024, arXiv: Quantum Physics

We propose two distinct interpretations of extended probabilities which are realistic for the physical world.

2024, Holz als Roh- und Werkstoff

The fracture mechanisms of wood depend on the mode of loading (Mode I and Mode II) and on the orientation of load application (e.g. TL and RL) within a specimen. Experiments were performed in TL and RL orientation and the critical stress intensity factors K¢c and Kuc were determined for different orientations. The micromechanisms of wood fracture were investigated by SEM observations. The reasons why (1) the KHc are higher than the K1c values, (2) the fracture process of mode II is unstable, (3) the fracture surface is rough and full of warped wood fibers are attempted to answer by considering the micromechanical fracture features of wood. Holzbruchmodelle for Modus I und Modus II Beanspruchung Die Bruchmechanismen yon Holz h~ingen vonder Beanspruchungsart (Modus I oder Modus II Beanspruchung) und yon deren Orientierung im Holz ab (z.B. TL und RL). In dieser Arbeit wurden Experimente in TL and RL Orientierung durchgefiihrt und dabei die Bruchz/ihigkeitswerte, K~c and Kr~ c fiir diese Orientierungen bestimmt. FOr die Untersuchung der Bruchmechanismen stand ein Rasterelektronenmikroskop zur Verft~gung. Unter Einbeziehung der beobachteten verschiedenen mikromechanischen Brucherscheinungen wird versucht, folgende experimentellen Ergebnisse zu erld/iren: 1) Die K~rc Werte sind wesentlich h6her als die K~c Werte, 2) Der Modus II Bruch erfolgt instabil, 3) Die Modus II Bruchfl~ichen sind rauh und bedeckt von gebrochenen und gekrtimmten Fasern.

2024, European Journal of Wood and Wood Products

In military operations, sappers must often breach wooden structures. The formulas for determining the destructive explosive loads available in instructions and manuals used by sappers are simplified because they consider only a few variables, such as structure member diameter, whether the wood is dry or damp, or the wood species of the structure. In this study, the destructive explosive loads needed to breach pine, birch and oak members were computed via the finite element method. Static compression tests in three directions were conducted to define the orthotropic constitutive models of those wood species, and the results were used as an input to the numerical models. The damage model for wood considered different levels of energy criteria. The finite element analyses of contact explosion of TNT charges against cylindrical log beams were conducted for selected wood species, and destructive explosive loads were computed for different log diameters. Assuming different energy criteria...

2024, Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures

Many natural and man-made materials exhibit self-similar hierarchical microstructures on several length scales. The effective macroscopic mechanical properties of such materials or composites are affected by the number of hierarchical levels and the topology of microstructures. Although the effective mechanical properties can be determined numerically using homogenization techniques, the computational costs can become prohibitively high as the level of hierarchy increases. This paper proposes an analytical approach to predicting the effective stiffness of a class of materials and structures with self-similar hierarchical microstructures. For each microstructural configuration, a simple relationship between the effective stiffness and the hierarchical level is established and verified against results of finite element analysis or data in the literature. It is found that the simple relationships we have developed provide quite accurate stiffness predictions of various hierarchical materials and composites including the Menger sponge. For composites, the predicted effective stiffness is accurate even when one of the phases is near its incompressibility limit, with its Poisson ratio close to 0.5. Inspired by the Menger sponge and informed by our topology optimization result, we propose a lighter yet stiffer "cross sponge".

2024

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2024, Journal of Accounting Education

In 2004, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standard No. 123 (revised 2004), Share-Based Payments (SFAS 123R), requiring all entities to recognize as expense the fair value of stock options issued to employees for services provided. Because employee stock options cannot be traded publicly, their fair value must be estimated using a model, with the Black-Scholes-Merton (BSM) and lattice models being the most appropriate alternatives. This teaching note provides an overview of employee stock options, followed by a discussion of the BSM and lattice valuation models, including their application and limitations. A project which has been used in financial accounting courses is also presented. The conceptual discussion coupled with illustrated examples will help students enhance their understanding of fair value estimation of and accounting for employee stock options under the recently adopted SFAS 123R.

2024

We propose a scenario for the prebiotic co-evolution of RNA and of fast folding proteins with large entropy gaps as observed today. We show from very general principles that the folding and unfolding of the proteins synthesized by RNA can function as a heat pump. Rock surfaces can facilitate the folding of amino acid chains having polar and hydrophobic residues, with an accompanying heat loss to the surrounding rock. These chains then absorb heat from the soup as they unfold. This opens the way to the enhancement of RNA replication rates, by the enzymatic action of folded proteins present in greater numbers at reduced temperatures. This gives an evolutionary advantage to those RNA coding amino acid sequences with non-degenerate folded states which would provide the most efficient refrigeration.

2024, Materials and Structures

This paper analysis failure mechanisms and apparent size effects the biaxial tensile-compressive behaviour of concrete. To this end, a probabilistic discret crack model is used, to determine numerically failure surfaces in the tensile-tensile and tensile-compressive loading range, on account of size effects considered as volume effects. The results (failuremechanisms, crack-patterns, volume effects, etc.) are discussed in some details with respect to the loading state applied. Size effects on the failure surface are quantified in terms of stress-invariant ratios at peak load for 8 loading paths. It is found that size effects decrease with the hydrostatic pressure increasing, i.e. when passing from the tensile loading range into the tensile-compressive range. This can be explained by the activation of friction at the crack lips in a stable crack propagation, which regularize mechanical volume effects, and thus apparent size effects.

2024, Physical Review E

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2024, Biophysical Journal

We propose what we believe is a new model to quantitatively describe the l-phage SWITCH system. The model incorporates facilitated transfer mechanism of transcription factor, which can be simplified into a two-step reaction. We first sequentially obtain two indispensable parameters by fitting our model to experimental data of two simple systems, and then apply them to study the natural l-SWITCH system. By incorporating the facilitated transfer mechanism, we find that in RecA À host Escherichia coli, the wild-type l-lysogenic state is in a monostable regime rather than in a bistable regime. Furthermore, the model explains the weak role of Cro protein and probably sheds light on the evolution of l-Cro protein, which is known to be structurally distinct from the other Cros in lambdoid family members.

2023, APS Meeting Abstracts

Experimental evidence suggests that protein molecules adsorbed to hydrophobic surfaces are thermally more stable than in the bulk. To understand this observation, adsorption of a model lattice protein on hydrophobic surfaces was studied... more

2023, Drvna Industrija

The aim of this study was to determine the fracture behavior of southern yellow pine (Pinus taeda L.) and red oak (Quercus falcata) wood under mode I loading in the tangential-radial and tangential-longitudinal crack propagation systems by a compact tension test method. The results of the study indicated that, in general, red oak had a significantly different fracture behavior than southern yellow pine for each of the two crack propagation systems. The fracture toughness was higher in the tangential-radial crack propagation system than that in the tangential-longitudinal crack system, but there was no significant difference between the two crack propagation systems for southern yellow pine. The specific fracture energy of the tangential-longitudinal crack propagation system for both wood species was significantly lower than that of the tangential-radial crack propagation system. It means that more energy per unit area for the tangential-radial crack propagation system was needed to separate a wood sample into two halves. The difference in the fracture behavior of wood by the crack propagation system can be explained by the structural features of the tested samples since the crack propagation of the tangentialradial system crosses the annual ring and wood fibers can bridge the crack surface.

2023, Microscopy Research and Technique

Spruce wood (picea abis) has been widely used as structural element, from buildings to musical instruments, due to its outstanding mechanical performances. The main stem transverse section exhibits growth rings formed by periodic fringes patterns, which are constituted by lamellae‐tracheid arrangements. In order to improve the understanding of each wood microstructure role, the morphology and crystallinity of earlywood and latewood fibers were examined mainly using scanning electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, and X‐ray difracction. Moreover, measurements of effective elastic modulus and hardness were obtained by nanoindentation tests using a Berkovich indenter in order to confirmed increase in compactness of the wood microstructures. The results indicate that variations in mechanical properties values can be associated with well defined microstructural performances for each characteristic fiber type, where those that belong to latewood fiber showed the most improved behavi...

2023, Computers & Structures

Concrete is undoubtedly the most important and widely used construction material of the last centuries. 35 Nevertheless, mathematical models that can accurately capture the particular material behaviour under 36 all loading conditions of significance are scarce at best. Although concepts and suitable models have 37 existed for quite a while, their practical significance is low due to the limited attention to calibration 38 and validation requirements and the scarcity of robust, transparent and comprehensive methods to per-39 form such tasks. Therefore, the manuscript attempts to promote the use of advanced concrete constitu-40 tive models by thoroughly reviewing their differences regarding calibration and validation on a selected 41 consistent experimental data set. More specifically, only two generally available standard experimental 42 tests, i.e. a three-point bending test and a compression cube test, are employed. The quality of fits is 43 objectively quantified using three independent measures based on the mean experimental curves.

2023, Journal of Mathematical Physics

A quasi-Hermitian operator is an operator that is similar to its adjoint in some sense, via a metric operator, i.e., a strictly positive self-adjoint operator. Whereas those metric operators are in general assumed to be bounded, we analyze the structure generated by unbounded metric operators in a Hilbert space. Following our previous work, we introduce several generalizations of the notion of similarity between operators. Then we explore systematically the various types of quasi-Hermitian operators, bounded or not. Finally, we discuss their application in the so-called pseudo-Hermitian quantum mechanics.

2023, Current Opinion in Genetics & Development

The contribution of bacteriophage l to gene control research is far from over. A revised model of the l genetic switch includes extra cooperativity through octamerization of the cI repressor protein, mediated by long-range DNA looping. Structural analysis reveals remarkably subtle transcriptional activation by cI. The action of cI, activation by cII, and aspects of antitermination by N and Q all confirm the utility and versatility of simple, weak adhesive interactions mediated by nucleic acid tethers. New genetic and quantitative analysis of the l gene network is challenging cherished ideas about how complex behaviours emerge from this regulatory system.

2023, Fluid Phase Equilibria

The specific volumes of extruded amorphous starch and its aqueous mixtures containing up to 30 wt.% were investigated between 25 and 160°C over an extended pressure range up to 100 MPa. The specific volume of water was also measured at the same temperature and pressure range. These highly non-ideal systems develop three-dimensional networks of hydrogen bonds, both in the pure state and in mixtures. The experimental data were correlated with the LFHB (lattice-fluid hydrogen-bonding) model. The model is able to describe satisfactorily the volumetric behavior of both pure components and their mixtures.

2023, Microscopy Research and Technique

2023, Bulletin of the American Physical Society

2023, Biochemistry

Integration host factor (IHF), a nucleoid-associated protein in bacterial cells, is implicated in a number of chromosomal functions including DNA compaction. IHF binds to all duplex DNA with micromolar affinity and at sequence-specific sites with much higher affinity. IHF is known to induce sharp bends in the helical axis of DNA in both modes of binding, but the role of IHF in controlling DNA condensation within bacterial cells has remained undetermined. Here we demonstrate that IHF influences the morphology of DNA condensed by polyamines in vitro. In the absence of IHF, spermidine and spermine condense DNA primarily into toroidal structures, whereas in the presence of IHF, polyamines condense DNA primarily into rodlike structures. Computer simulations of DNA condensation in the absence and presence of IHF binding lend support to our model in which DNA bending proteins, such as IHF and HU, promote the condensation of DNA into rodlike structures by providing the free energy necessary to bend DNA at the ends of linear bundles of condensed DNA. We propose that a common function of IHF and HU in bacterial cells is to facilitate DNA organization in the nucleoid by the introduction of sharp bends in chromosomal DNA.

2023, Brazilian Journal of Physics

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2023, Microscopy Research and Technique