Michal Borkovec, Ger J. M. Koper Email. [email protected], [email protected] September 15, 2013 Direct link www.colloid.ch/polyelectrolytes In aqueous solutions, bases bind protons, while acids dissociate them. For weak acids and bases, these protonation reactions occur in the intermediate pH range. Dealing with monoprotic or diprotic acids and bases, the corresponding binding isoth...

We present a weak measurement protocol that permits a sensitive estimation of angular rotations based on the concept of weak-value amplification. The shift in the state of a pointer, in both angular position and the conjugate orbital angular momentum bases, is used to estimate angular rotations. This is done by an amplification of both the real and imaginary parts of the weak-value of a polariz...

Two conditions were identified that interfered with the complex polymerization process in biosynthesis of von Willebrand factor (vWf). Treatment of human umbilical vein endothelial cells with tunicamycin inhibited N-linked glycosylation of nascent vWf and the resulting pro-vWf monomers failed to dimerize. The single subunits accumulated in the endoplasmic reticulum and were neither processed fu...

We hypothesize that reduced osmolarity mixed-base (ROMB) solutions can potentially serve as customizable treatments for acidoses, going beyond standard solutions in clinical use, such as 1.0 M sodium bicarbonate. Through in silico quantitative modeling, by treating acidified canine blood using ROMB solutions, and by performing blood-gas and optical microscopy measurements in vitro, we demonstra...

The Cedar DBMS is a database management system developed as part of the Cedar programming environment The system has several unusual aspects, including its interface for applications programming in a strongly-typed procedural anguage and its distribution of computation and data over a network. This paper describes the design goals, architecture, and implementation of the Cedar DBMS.

We obtain upper and lower bounds for running times of exponential time algorithms for the detection of weak backdoor sets of 3CNF formulas, considering various base classes. These results include (omitting polynomial factors), (i) a 4.54 algorithm to detect whether there is a weak backdoor set of at most k variables into the class of Horn formulas; (ii) a 2.27 algorithm to detect whether there ...

In this note we study the weak topology on paired modules over a (not necessarily commutative) ground ring. Over QF rings we are able to recover most of the well known properties of this topology in the case of commutative base fields. The properties of the linear weak topology and the dense pairings are then used to characterize pairings satisfying the so called α-condition.

In his Introduction to Metamathematics [13, § 64], S.C. Kleene distinguishes between a “strong sense” and a “weak sense” of propositional connectives when partially defined predicates are present. Each of these meanings is made explicit via certain 3-valued truth tables, which have become widely known as strong Kleene tables and weak Kleene tables, respectively. If the elements of the base set ...

Toward the expansion of the genetic alphabet of DNA, several artificial third base pairs (unnatural base pairs) have been created. Synthetic DNAs containing the unnatural base pairs can be amplified faithfully by PCR, along with the natural A-T and G-C pairs, and transcribed into RNA. The unnatural base pair systems now have high potential to open the door to next generation biotechnology. The ...

For small involutive and integral quantaloids Q it is shown that covariant presheaves on symmetric Q-categories are equivalent to certain subalgebras of a speci c monad on the category of symmetric Q-categories. This construction is related to a weakening of the subobject classi er axiom which does not require the classi cation of all subalgebras, but only guarantees that classi able subalgebra...