Cells exhibit qualitatively different behaviors on substrates with different rigidities. The fact that cells are more polarized on the stiffer substrate motivates us to construct a two-dimensional cell with the distribution of focal adhesions dependent on substrate rigidities. This distribution affects the forces exerted by the cell and thereby determines its motion. Our model reproduces the ex...

Some renormalization group approaches have been proposed during the last few years which are close in spirit to the Nightingale phenomenological procedure. In essence, by exploiting the finite size scaling hypothesis, the approximate critical behavior of the model on infinite lattice is obtained through the exact computation of some thermal quantities of the model on finite clusters. In this wo...

Applications of the principle of reduction of couplings to the standard model and supersymmetric grand unified theories are reviewed. Phenomenological applications of renormalization group invariant sum rules for soft supersymmetry-breaking parameters are also reviewed. ∗ To appear in the Proceedings of the Ringberg Symposium on Quantum Field Theory, Tegernsee, Germany, June 1998. 1 Application...

In recent years, the field of entrepreneurship has witnessed an emerging body of research that operates within an interpretive paradigm. In contributing to this research tradition, this article explicates an interpretive, phenomenological form of inquiry, described by Thompson et al (1989) as the ‘phenomenological interview’. Particular attention is paid to the ontological and epistemological f...

Objective To reflect on the characteristics of the phenomenological interview as part of a phenomenological research in nursing research and to present some practical recommendations for its realization. Method Reflective theoretical study conducted in October and November of 2016 about the development of the phenomenological interview in nursing, based on the scientific literature and critic...

We compute the order αs (next-to-leading) corrections to the Wilson coefficients of the ∆F = 2 effective Hamiltonian in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model with completely arbitrary soft terms. These results are relevant for phenomenological studies of neutral meson mixings in the presence of large squark mass splittings, in particular in hierarchical scenarios of supersymmetry. These cor...

A phenomenological multi-response multi-parameter Acetone–Butanol–Ethanol fermentation dynamic model is developed and calibrated for process studies. The was constructed based on other models reported in the literature with a maximum likelihood parameter estimation over experimental data from literature. After estimation, rigorous statistical analysis conducted to evaluate standard deviations o...