ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First of all, I would like to thank Dr. Reinhard Beichel for his patient guidance throughout my study at the University of Iowa. During my study in this department, I have benefited from interactions with many faculty members. I would also like to thank Dr. Geoffrey McLennan for providing part of the experimental data. Dr. Xiaodong Wu contributed the source code for the optimal...

This paper proposes a new mathematical framework that can be applied to biological problems such as analysis of the structures of proteins and protein complexes. In particular, it gives a new method for encoding the three-dimensional structure of a protein into a binary sequence, where proteins are approximated by a folded tetrahedron sequence. The feature of the method is the correspondence be...

ABSTRACT The activity coefficient of oxygen [Formula: see text] in liquid Ag and binary Ag-Te dilute alloys were determined between 1,285 and 1,485 K by coulometric titration using the electrochemical cell (Ir, [O] in liquid metal or alloy | yttria stabilized zirconia | air, Pt). The experimental and evaluation procedures described in the literature were adopted. The oxygen activity coefficient...

The interaction of (perfluorooctyl)nonanol (F8H9OH) with dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) was systematically studied in two-component monolayers at air-water interface. The thermodynamic property and phase morphology of the monolayers were investigated by isotherm measurements and several microscopic methods such as Brewster angle microscopy, fluorescence microscopy, and atomic force micro...

Employing a recently developed technique of component weighted two particle Green's functions in the CPA of a binary substitutional alloy A c B 1−c we extend the existing theory of excitons in such media using a contact potential model for the interaction between electrons and holes to an approximation which interpolates correctly between the limits of weak and strong disorder. With our approac...

an analysis of selected fission fragment angular distributions from helium-ion induced fission is made using an exact theoretical expression. theoretical anisotropies obtained with the transition state model are compared with their corresponding values deduced from the statistical scission model. the nuclear moment of inertia extracted from the model calculations are compared with their estimat...

The increase in the availability of protein interaction studies in textual format coupled with the demand for easier access to the key results has lead to a need for text mining solutions. In the text processing pipeline, classification is a key step for extraction of small sections of relevant text. Consequently, for the task of locating protein-protein interaction sentences, we examine the us...

The Maier-Saupe model for binary mixtures of uniaxial discotic nematogens, formulated in a previous study [1], is used to compute and characterize orientational entropy [2] and orientational specific heat. These thermodynamic quantities are used to determine mixture type (ideal or non-ideal) which arise due to their different intrinsic properties, determined by the molecular weight asymmetry ΔM...

ABSTRACT. We consider a Boltzmann model introduced by Bertin, Droz and Grégoire as a binary interaction model of the Vicsek alignment interaction. This model considers particles lying on the circle. Pairs of particles interact by trying to reach their mid-point (on the circle) up to some noise. We study the equilibria of this Boltzmann model and we rigorously show the existence of a pitchfork b...

The non-thermal, non-pulsed X-ray emission of MSPs is investigated. As in young pulsars, MSPs emit a relativistic wind, which interacting with the interstellar medium and/or a binary companion can significantly contribute to the non-pulsed emission of these pulsars. An application and extension of a simple model developed for young pulsars is applied to the old recycled MSP B1957+20. It is foun...