In recent decades, "Public Sphere" is one of the most important concepts in political science. Jurgen Habermas the famous thinker in this approach is the first to use this concept in critical thinking, where he demonstrates how networking is used for communicative actions. Habermas has not included the Internet as an important part of his thought process in the "public sphere", however, I think...

Design is a ubiquitous activity. People can be creative in any sphere of life pursuing design activities. For the last decade, we have been engaged in the development of domain-oriented design environments to enhance individual creativity in a variety of different design domains. Based on the fact that the individual human mind is limited, extensions to our earlier approaches are presented, des...

A single component hard sphere description molten halides and nitrates, applied to self-diffusion and viscosity data, has led to a hard sphere size which for a given cation depends linearly upon the anionic radius. This correlation has been used to predict viscosity coefficients of fused alkali fluorides and to estimate the effective size of the N03~-anion in molten nitrates. The Stokes-Einstei...

We give linear-time quasiconvex programming algorithms for finding a Möbius transformation of a set of spheres in a unit ball or on the surface of a unit sphere that maximizes the minimum size of a transformed sphere. We can also use similar methods to maximize the minimum distance among a set of pairs of input points. We apply these results to vertex separation and symmetry display in spherica...

We give various equivalent formulations to the (partially) open problem about Lboundedness of Bergman projections in tubes over cones. Namely, we show that such boundedness is equivalent to the duality identity between Bergman spaces, A ′ = (Ap)∗, and also to a Hardy type inequality related to the wave operator. We introduce analytic Besov spaces in tubes over cones, for which such Hardy inequa...

social life in the online world. It has become the most acceptable pattern of forging social connections on the web. Every new development has pros and cons in its own sphere, though, and social networking web sites are no different. Online social networks, being a part of the Web 2.0 world, are prone to attacks and malware infections. Social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Orkut ...

For high resolution labeling of influenza virus cell surface antigens on HeLa cells, an immunospecific marker is used with silica sphere cores of 13--14 nm average diameter. These markers are formed using commercially available silica sphere sols. Two other size ranges are available, 7--8 nm and 22--25 nm. The steps for chemical derivatization are described in detail. Amino and aldehyde functio...

A heavy sphere is free to move inside a rotating horizontal cylinder filled with viscous liquid. The steady motion is essentially Stokesian, and the sphere rotates at a fixed location with a lubrication layer between the ball and the wall. The symmetry of the flow field suggests there will be no force to balance the normal component of the ball's weight. However, we show that a normal force can...

A size selective nanorattle was formed by encapsulating soybean peroxidase (SBP) within a ZnS mesoporous hollow sphere. Once encapsulated within the mesoporous hollow sphere, the SBP remained active against molecules smaller than the 3 nm diameter of the mesopores in the shell wall, while molecules larger than the mesopores, which could not pass into the hollow sphere, did not interact with the...