R. Czerw, B. Foley, D. Tekleab, A. Rubio, P. M. Ajayan, and D. L. Carroll School of Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29634 Department of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland Departamento de Fisica de Materiales, UPV/EHU, Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Centro Mixto CSIC-UPV/EHU, 20018 San Sebastian, Spain Department of Ma...

The complete description of the lifetime of a droplet on a solid substrate evaporating in a ‘stick–slide’ mode is obtained. The unexpectedly subtle relationship between the lifetime of such a droplet and the lifetimes of initially identical droplets evaporating in the extreme modes (namely the constant contact radius and constant contact angle modes) is described and summarised in an appropriat...

Didemnum perlucidum is a colonial ascidian that is cryptogenic in southern Brazil but introduced in many regions around the world. It is common in ports and marinas where it may form large colonies although its role in fouling communities is poorly understood. The goal of this study was to evaluate the role of D. perlucidum in a marine fouling community comprised mainly of non-indigenous specie...

Information precipitates the flow of time from scratch. Information as a noun equivalent of the transitive verb “inform” stands out in the contrast between a direct and an indirect object of the verb, that is to say, between the messenger of a message and its dative. The root of the contrast is sought in the occurrence of the flow of time in the sense that the flow requires both the invariant r...

We present a model of how DNA knots and links are formed as a result of a single recombination event, or multiple rounds of (processive) recombination events, starting with an unknotted, unlinked, or a (2,m)-torus knot or link substrate. Given these substrates, according to our model all DNA products of a single recombination event or processive recombination fall into a single family of knots ...

A number of Internet applications rely on the Domain Name System (DNS) to support their operations. Many applications use the DNS to locate services for a domain; some, for example, transform identifiers other than domain names into formats that the DNS can process, and then fetch application data or service location data from the DNS. Proposals incorporating sophisticated application behavior ...