Small multicomponent droplets are of increasing importance in a plethora technological applications ranging from the fabrication self-assembled hierarchical patterns to design autonomous fluidic systems. While often far away equilibrium, involving complex and even chaotic flow fields, it is commonly assumed that these systems with small drops surface tension keeps shapes spherical. Here, studyi...

The present paper examines the effectiveness of financial overcompensation as a means to enhance customer loyalty after a product failure. Overcompensation implies that customers are entitled to a refund that is larger than the purchase price. It is, however, still unclear whether large overcompensations entail saturation effects, or alternatively, result in an actual drop in customer loyalty. ...

The ovary of the neonatal rat has been found to offer very favourable material for an examination of the structural relationship between an oocyte and its surrounding follicle cells, since a large proportion of the follicles are at a similar stage of development and can be examined within a single section under the electron microscope. This has made it possible to examine the changes in cell su...

We have recently observed a transmembrane association between extracellular fibronectin (FN) fibers and elongated focal patches or fibers of vinculin (VN) in G1-arrested stationary Nil 8 hamster fibroblasts, with double-label immunofluorescence microscopy (Singer and Paradiso, 1981, Cell. 24:481-492). We hypothesized that these FN-VN complexes might correspond to focal contacts, the membrane si...

Cranial meninges of humans were studied by electron microscopy after fixation in situ and histochemical demonstration of nicotinamide-adenine dinucleotide diaphorase within mitochon dria. There was an intimate fusion between the innermost portion of the dura mater (dural border cells) and the outermost portion of the arachnoid (arachnoid barrier layer). Cranial meninges did not contain a true s...

We present a series of JCMT, BIMA and VLA observations of the massive star-forming region associated with G35.2–0.7N. These new observations shed considerable light on the nature of the outflows in this region. The combination of our CO, SiO and radio data suggest that there are perhaps as many as four outflows emanating from the core containing G35.2–0.7N. CO J=3→2 maps show that the outflow h...

here, we propose an add-drop and a channel drop filter based on two-dimensional photonic crystal all circular ring resonators. these structures are made of a square lattice of silicon rods with the refractive index n1=3.464 surrounded by air (with refractive index n2=1). the broadest photonic band gap occurs at the filling ratio of r/a = 0.17. two linear defect w1 waveguides couple to the ring....

Approximate joint block diagonalization (AJBD) of a set of matrices has applications in blind source separation, e.g., when the signal mixtures contain mutually independent subspaces of dimension higher than one. The main message of this paper is that certain ordinary approximate joint diagonalization (AJD) methods (which were originally derived for degenerate" subspaces of dimension 1) can als...