The aim of this paper is to determine topological types of torus manifolds which have codimension one extended G-actions. As a result, we show that their topological types are completely determined by their cohomology rings and characteristic classes. Due to this result, we find the counterexample to the cohomological rigidity problem in the category of torus manifolds. Moreover, we find the cl...

Title of Dissertation: N-body Simulations with Cohesion in Dense Planetary Rings Randall Patrick Perrine, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011 Dissertation directed by: Professor Derek C. Richardson Department of Astronomy This dissertation is primarily focused on exploring whether weak cohesion among icy particles in Saturn’s dense rings is consistent with observations—and if so, what limits can be plac...

Density functional theory calculations together with highly resolved gas-phase ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy have been applied to oligothiophene chains with up to eight thiophene rings. One of the important parameters governing the charge transport properties in the condensed phase is the amount of energy relaxation upon ionization. Here, we investigate the impact on this parameter of ...

The title dysprosium coordination polymer, {[Dy(2)(C(10)H(8)O(6))(3)(H(2)O)(2)]·2H(2)O}(n), was synthesized by reacting dysprosium(III) nitrate and the flexible ligand (p-phenyl-enedi-oxy)diacetic acid under hydro-thermal conditions. Each Dy(III) ion is coordinated by nine O atoms in a tricapped trigonal prismatic geometry. The DyO(9) polyhedra form layers parallel to the bc plane. The rigid be...

Over the last 8 years, our laboratory has developed the concept of iminium catalysis, a mode of LUMO-lowering activation that has enabled the invention of a large number of enantioselective organocatalytic transformations including Diels-Alder cycloadditions, Friedel-Crafts alkylations, Mukaiyama-Michael additions, hydrogenations, and heteroconjugate additions.1 Central to the utility of this t...

An 18-year-old male presented with a three-year history of slurred speech, gait impairment, seizures and progressive neurological deterioration. Brain MRI depicted bilateral hyperintense T2-signal in the basal ganglia and white matter abnormalities with a cystic appearance in the frontal lobes. Ophthalmological evaluation disclosed KayserFleisher rings (Figure). Ceruloplasmin was low and urinar...

When viewed from the top, Trichodina is circular; side views of the organism reveal a saucer or dome shape (Fig. 1). It has three rings of cilia (small, hair-like projections) encircling its body and oral cavity, which are used for locomotion and feeding. Its body is supported by a rigid ring of interconnected discs called a chitinoid or denticular ring (Fig. 2). Each disc has a thorn-like inne...

The main molecule of the title compound, C(37)H(36)·CDCl(3), is a hydro-carbon with two naphthalene segments attached to opposite ends of a rigid norbornylogous spacer with an overall structure that is approximately C-shaped. The dihedral angle between the naphthalene ring planes is 9.27 (7)°. The cleft that exists between the naphthalene rings is large enough that the compound crystallizes wit...

Localized Structures often behave as quasi-particles and they may form molecules characterized by well-defined bond distances. In this paper we show that pointwise nonlocality may lead to a new kind of molecule where bonds are not rigid. The elements of this molecule can shift mutually one with respect to the others while remaining linked together, in a way similar to interlaced rings in a chai...

this study proposes a new linear approximation for solving the dynamic response equations of a rocking rigid block. linearization assumptions which have already been used by hounser and other researchers cannot be valid for all rocking blocks with various slenderness ratios and dimensions; hence, developing new methods which can result in better approximation of governing equations while keepin...