Using dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) simulations, we model the interaction between nanoscopic lipid vesicles and Janus nanoparticles in the presence of an imposed flow. Both the vesicle and Janus nanoparticles are localized on a hydrophilic substrate and immersed in a hydrophilic solution. The fluid-driven vesicle successfully picks up Janus particles on the substrate and transports these ...

We use 12 years of holistic research performance scores for each academic in all New Zealand universities to ask whether gendered gaps pay, age, score, and performance-adjusted pay are narrowing with time. find that the gender age score narrowed from 2006 2018, but did not. Controlling field, women’s odds advancement high ranks converged around two-thirds men’s odds. Similarly, lifetime gap has...

Abstract The Machado-Mata decomposition building on quantile regression has been extensively analyzed in the literature focusing gender wage inequality. In this study, we generalize to expectile framework, which, best of our knowledge, never applied strand literature. contrast, recent years, expectiles have gained increasing attention other contexts as an alternative traditional quantiles, prov...

With a rising number of women in middle-level higher education leadership, vast opportunities abound. Yet female academics are faced with sticky floors that jeopardise their significant inflow to senior leadership positions. By arguing intra-feminist issues pertaining leadership’s leaky pipeline have not gained sufficient attention, this study interrogates internal dynamics among academics, ide...

The purpose of this study was to compare the ACL injury rate between two different floor types - wooden floors (parquet, generally having lower friction) and artificial floors (generally having higher friction). ACL injuries have been recorded prospectively from the three top divisions for men and women in Norwegian team handball during seven seasons (1989-2000). A total of 174 ACL injuries hav...

Comparisons of webs spun in the field when both sticky and non-sticky silk supplies were complete, when both were recently depleted, and when only non-sticky supplies were depleted show that Leucauge mariana and Micrathena sexspinosa vary design features of their orbs such as numbers of radii and sticky spiral loops, web area and proportion covered with sticky spiral, sticky spiral symmetry, an...

The low nutritional value of barley for poultry is because of the absence of an intestinal enzyme for efficient depolymerization of (1, 3-1,4)-beta-glucan, the major polysaccharide of the endosperm cell walls. This leads to high viscosity in the intestine, limited nutrient uptake, decreased growth rate, and unhygienic sticky droppings adhering to chickens and floors of the production cages. Con...