Apparent electrostatic persistence lengths (i.e., those found by substituting the perturbed for the unperturbed mean-square gyration radius in the wormlike chain theory) obtained from static light scattering for variably ionized acrylamideJsodium acrylate copolymers varied approximately as the inverse square root of the ionic strength, C,, and linearly with fractional ionization. While this doe...

Confocal Raman spectroscopy has been implemented within the molecularly thin films of a surface forces apparatus. Applying this technique to an initial system, we investigate the confinement and shear-induced changes in the Raman spectra of poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) liquids confined between atomically smooth mica surfaces at thicknesses less than the unperturbed radius of gyration of the po...

The objective of this study is to identify how dimensions of organizational flexibility enable inventory flow integration, evidently an efficiency imperative, across the supply chain. The paper investigates the impact of product modularity, use of teams and IT infrastructure reconfigurability as dimensions of organizational flexibility, on inventory flow integration across the supply chain. Dat...

We prove that the integrated density of states (IDS) associated to a random Schrödinger operator is locally uniformly Hölder continuous as a function of the disorder parameter λ. In particular, we obtain convergence of the IDS, as λ → 0, to the IDS for the unperturbed operator at all energies for which the IDS for the unperturbed operator is continuous in energy.

Today's competitive world has led managers to shift from traditional management to scientific management. Supply chain management is one of key issues in industries because, considering a high number of competitors in today's competitive world, competition has been extended from company level to the level of competition on their supply chain. For any organization seeking to achieve its goals in...

We present a geometric Melnikov method to analyze two-dimensional stable or unstable manifold associated with saddle point in three-dimensional nonvolume preserving autonomous flows. The time-varying perturbed location of such is obtained under very general, and arbitrary time-dependence, perturbations. demonstrate the explicit computability leading-order spatio-temporal using our formulas. In ...