An A,B-block amphiphilic polymer and a branched polymer were prepared by using a new type of pseudo-living addition-condensation polymerization. The first polymer showed an interphase photoinduced energy transfer in a micellar system, while the second type showed efficient light-harvesting ability.

The chance of developing lung cancer is increased through being exposed to cigarette smoke illustrated by studies. It is vital to understand the development of particular histologic-type cancers regarding the deposition of carcinogenic particles, which are present in human airway. In this paper, the mass transfer and deposition of cigarette smoke, inside the human airway, are investigated apply...

We survey various transfer methods in Q-learning, a type of reinforcement learning, and present a variation on fixed sub-transfer which we call dynamic sub-transfer. We describe the pros and cons of dynamic sub-transfer as compared with the other transfer methods, and we describe qualitatively the situations where this method would be preferred over the fixed version of sub-transfer.

Let $alpha$ be an automorphism of a ring $R$. The authors [On skewinverse Laurent-serieswise Armendariz rings, Comm. Algebra 40(1)(2012) 138-156] applied the concept of Armendariz rings to inverseskew Laurent series rings and introduced skew inverseLaurent-serieswise Armendariz rings. In this article, we study on aspecial type of these rings and introduce strongly Armendariz ringsof inverse ske...

The heat transfer for a non-Newtonian power-law fluid over a moving surface is investigated by applying a uniform suction/injection velocity profile. The flow is influenced by internal heat generation/absorption. The energy equation is solved at constant surface temperature condition. The Merk-Chao series is applied to obtain a set of ODEs instead of a complicated PDE. The converted ordinary diffe...

The cohesiveness of response to external stimuli depends on rapid distortion-free information transfer across the network. Aligning with the information from the network has been used to model such information transfer. Nevertheless, the rate of such diffusion-type, neighbor-based information transfer is limited by the update rate at which each individual can sense and process information. More...

A problem of obtaining an optimal file transfer on a file transmission net N is to consider how to transmit, with a minimum total cost, copies of a certain file of information from some vertices to others on N by the respective vertices’ copy demand numbers. This problem is NP-hard for a general file transmission net. So far, some class of N on which polynomial time algorithms for obtaining an ...

background: the role of embryo transfer (et) in the success of in vitro fertilization/intra cytoplasmic sperm injection treatment is not well understood. in the present study we classified et technique as difficult and easy types according to certain strict criteria, and compared the pregnancy outcome of the two et types.   methods: this study was performed retrospectively on 295 infertile pati...