In this paper we discuss the dispersionless limit of the multicomponent 2D Toda hierarchy. The discrete flows of the hierarchy are used to define charge preserving Lax and Orlov–Schulman operators. This construction allows us to perform two types of dispersionless limits, one type leads to the 0-genus universal Whitham hierarchy while the other leads to a dispersionless hierarchy which contains...

Biological processes are often governed by functional modules of large protein assemblies such as the proteasomes and the nuclear pore complex, for example. However, atomic structures can be determined experimentally only for a small fraction of these multicomponent assemblies. In this article, we present an ant colony optimization based approach to predict the structure of large multicomponent...

A hierarchical and scalable microfluidic device constructed from a combination of three building blocks enables highly controlled generation of multicomponent multiple emulsions. The number, ratio and size of droplets, each with distinct contents being independently co-encapsulated in the same level, can be precisely controlled. The building blocks are a drop maker, a connector and a liquid ext...

Theoretical aspects of multicomponent superconductivity and systems with competing interactions are studied using Monte Carlo techniques. Motivated by recent experimental and theoretical results of complex structure formation of vortices in multicomponent systems, possible vortex structure formations due to vortex interactions that are not purely attractive or repulsive are considered. Vortex s...

A simplified spray environment is used to represent the multicomponent nature of liquid fuels and to examine the sensitivity of their vaporization behavior to the various liquidand gas-phase models. Liquid-phase models are the diffusion limit, the infinite diffusion, and the vortex. Gas-phase models are the Ranz-Marshall correlation and the axisymmetric model. Three subsets of equations are sol...

This report documents a Fortran computer code package that is used for the evaluation of gas-phase multicomponent viscosities, thermal conductivities, diiusion coeecients, and thermal diiusion coeecients. The package is in two parts. The rst is a preprocessor that computes polynomial ts to the temperature dependent parts of the pure species viscosities and binary diiusion coeecients. The coeeci...

This paper concerns multicomponent texture classification. The aim is to provide a flexible model when wavelet subband coefficients of components do not have the same distributions. Example of such case is when color textures are represented in a perceptual color space. In this kind of representation, the separability between luminance and chrominance components have to be considered in the mod...

A comparison of the mass spectral response for myoglobin, cytochrome c, and lysozyme is presented for laser electrospray mass spectrometry (LEMS) and electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry (ESI-MS). Analysis of multicomponent protein solutions using nonresonant femtosecond (fs) laser vaporization with electrospray postionization mass spectrometry exhibited significantly reduced ion suppressi...

Multicomponent application paradigms have gained prominence in many significant multidisciplinary scientific applications. In this work, we propose a software strategy called dynamic component extension for multicomponent applications to improve application performance by minimizing processor idling. In this strategy, the processor space of a component is dynamically extended to include the pro...

Many diseases and health risks are the result of unhealthy lifestyles and technology could be used as an intervention. However, designing healthy lifestyle technologies is challenging, as the technology should be able to influence user behavior. In this case study, the design and evaluation process of a persuasive healthy lifestyle assistance technology was investigated. The iterative design an...