From dimers to webs

From Private Supply Networks and Shared Supply Webs to Physical Internet Enabled Open Supply Webs

String Webs from Field Theory

The spectrum of stable electrically and magnetically charged supersymmetric particles can change discontinuously as one changes the vacuum on the Coulomb branch of gauge theories with extended supersymmetry in four dimensions. We show that this decay process can be understood and is well described by semiclassical field configurations purely in terms of the low energy effective action on the Co...

From spider webs to a fibre-optic chemical sensor

K. Hey Tow, D. M. Chow, F. Vollrath, I. Dicaire, T. Gheysens, and L. Thévenaz EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Institute of Electrical Engineering, SCI-STI-LT, Station 11, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; University of Oxford, Department of Zoology, Oxford OX1 3PS, United Kingdom; CCTT Optech, 1111 Lapierre St., Montreal QC, H8N 2J4, Canada; Polymer Chemistry & Biomaterials Research Gr...

MspA Nanopores from Subunit Dimers

Mycobacterium smegmatis porin A (MspA) forms an octameric channel and represents the founding member of a new family of pore proteins. Control of subunit stoichiometry is important to tailor MspA for nanotechnological applications. In this study, two MspA monomers were connected by linkers ranging from 17 to 62 amino acids in length. The oligomeric pore proteins were purified from M. smegmatis ...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...