2H-Chromenes (2H-1-benzopyran derivatives) display a broad spectrum of biological activities. The 2H-chromene substructure is an important structural motif present in a variety of medicines, natural products, and materials showing unique photophysical properties. Hence, the structural importance of the benzopyran moiety has elicited a great deal of interest in the field of organic synthesis and...

From the electromagnetic form factor of the pion and from the decay modes of the τ lepton involving two or three pions one can see that the isovector–vector quark current couples strongly to the ρ meson whereas the isovector– axial-vector current couples strongly to the a1. Therefore such reactions provide excellent access to studies of the properties of (axial-)vector mesons. It has been shown...

Recent progress in the understanding of star formation is summarized. A consistent picture is emerging where molecular clouds form with turbulent velocity fields and clumpy substructure, imprinted already during their formation. The clouds are initially supported by supersonic turbulence which dissipates however within massive clumps on short timescales, of order their local dynamical timescale...

We develop a semi-analytical model that determines the evolution of the mass, position and internal structure of dark matter substructures orbiting in dark matter haloes. We apply this model to the case of the Milky Way. We focus in particular on the effects of mass loss, dynamical friction and substructure–substructure interactions, the last of which has previously been ignored in analytic mod...

In real-time hybrid model testing, complex ocean structures are emulated by fusing numerical modelling with traditional hydrodynamic testing. This is done partitioning the structure under consideration into a and physical substructure, coupled in real time via measurement control interface. The numerically computed load vector applied to substructure means of multiple actuated winches so that r...

We examined the relationship between continental-level genetic ancestry and racial and ethnic identity in an admixed population in New Mexico with the goal of increasing our understanding of how racial and ethnic identity influence genetic substructure in admixed populations. Our sample consists of 98 New Mexicans who self-identified as Hispanic or Latino (NM-HL) and who further categorized the...

A finite element method is developed to treat the steady-state vibration of two axisymmetric structures—a base substructure and an attached dampersubstructure—that are driven by traveling wave excitation and that couplethrough a spatially distributed hysteretic friction interface. The base substructure is representative of a rotating brake rotor or gear, and the damper is a ring affixed to the ...

AIM To evaluate the population substructure of purebred dogs and cats in order to estimate the true significance of a microsatellite-based DNA match for use as evidence in legal proceedings. The high frequency of animal hair as a forensic evidence submission necessitates the development of mitochondrial analysis tools as well. METHODS Random samples from a large convenience collection of vete...

In cold dark matter cosmological models , structures form and grow by merging of smaller units. Numerical simulations have shown that such merging is incomplete; the inner cores of halos survive and orbit as “subhalos” within their hosts . Here we report a simulation that resolves such substructure even in the very inner regions of the Galactic halo. We find hundreds of very concentrated dark m...

The nearby Ursa Minor dwarf spheroidal (UMi dSph) is one of the most dark matter dominated galaxies known, with a central mass to light ratio M/L ∼ 70. Somewhat anomalously, it appears to contain morphological substructure in the form of a second peak in the stellar number density. It is often argued that this substructure must be transient because it could not survive for the > 10 Gyr age of t...