A self consistent field theory for compressible polymer mixtures is developed by introducing elements of classical density functional theory into the framework of the Helfand theory. It is then applied to study free surfaces of binary (A,B) polymer blends. Density profiles in the oneand two-phase region are calculated as well as chain end distributions and chain orientations of the minority and...

The sequencing of the human genome holds out the hope for personalized medicine, but it is clear that analysis of DNA or RNA content alone is not sufficient to understand most disease processes. Proteomic strategies that allow unbiased identification of proteins and their post-transcriptional and -translation modifications are an essential complement to genomic strategies. However, the enormity...

The application of a software functional measurement method is an intellectual process carried out on a complex abstract artifact: this process includes both a mapping phase between the measurement model and the software model, and a measurement phase for the instantiation of the measurement rules to the derived mapping model. In industrial contexts, two types of difficulties often occur when m...

The development of software engineering has had a great deal of benefits for the development of software. Along with it came a whole new paradigm of the way software is designed and implemented object orientation. Today it is a standard to have UML diagrams automatically translated into program code wherever possible. However, as few tools really go beyond this we demonstrate a simple functiona...

An adaptive conservative or dissipative numerical method for nonlinear partial differential equations is established. The method not only inherits the welcome conservation or dissipation property of the equation but also uses suitable non-uniform grids at each time step. Our numerical experiments indicate that the method is useful especially for localized solutions such as solitary wave solutio...

In this article, we introduce a class of the generalized mixed additive, quadratic and quartic functional equations and obtain their common solutions. We also investigate the stability of such modified functional equations in the non-Archimedean normed spaces by a fixed point method.

The total enthalpies of the 16 different spin configurations that can be realized in the unit cell of the archetype spin crossover complex [Fe(phen)2(NCS)2] (phen = 1,2-phenanthroline) were calculated, applying periodic density functional theory combined with the Hubbard model and the Grimme-D2 dispersion correction (DFT+U+D2). The obtained enthalpy differences between the individual spin confi...