In FY14, the objectives of our analyses of the WP-3D based LASP measurements are to understand: 1) marine atmospheric boundary layer (MABL) structure and characteristics during the DYANMO/LASP field campaign; 2) influence of convection on MABL structure and the variability of atmospheric boundary layer thermodynamic properties across the DYNAMO domain during the suppressed and active phase of M...

The electrochemical reactions of hydrogen oxidation and steam reduction have been investigated for a porous cermet electrode made Ni 3YSZ. characterizations performed over large range gas compositions at 700°C. It has shown that the fuel response is activated by potential under anodic current while limiting density appears cathodic polarization. Moreover, impedance diagrams exhibit shape repres...

Strain patterns within the forearc at a convergent margin adjacent to a passing fault-fault-trench triple junction show a systematic evolution. We describe late Neogene and Quaternary deformation in northern coastal California in the last 3 m.y. associated with the migration of the Mendocino triple junction. Deformation in the North American forearc near Humbolt Bay consists of a 30-km-wide zon...

We investigate an idealized model of microtubule dynamics that involves: (i) attachment of guanosine triphosphate (GTP) at rate λ, (ii) conversion of GTP to guanosine diphosphate (GDP) at rate 1, and (iii) detachment of GDP at rate μ. As a function of these rates, a microtubule can grow steadily or its length can fluctuate wildly. For μ = 0, we find the exact tubule and GTP cap length distribut...

We study the quantum phase transition of the 1D weakly interacting Bose gas in the presence of disorder. We characterize the phase transition as a function of disorder and interaction strengths, by inspecting the long-range behavior of the one-body density matrix as well as the drop in the superfluid fraction. We focus on the properties of the low-energy Bogoliubov excitations that drive the ph...

In this paper, we consider the existence of triple positive solutions to the boundary value problem of nonlinear delay differential equation

About the "normal growth" approximation in the dynamical theory of phase transitions L. Truskinovsky Nonequilibrium phase transitions can often be modeled by a surface of dis-continuity propagating into a metastable region. The physical hypothesis of "normal growth" presumes a linear relation between the velocity of the phase boundary and the degree of metastability. The phenomenological coeffi...

Myelin, made by oligodendrocytes, is essential for rapid information transfer in the central nervous system. Oligodendrocyte precursors (OPs) receive glutamatergic synaptic input from axons but how this affects their development is unclear. Murine OPs in white matter express AMPA receptor (AMPAR) subunits GluA2, GluA3 and GluA4. We generated mice in which OPs lack both GluA2 and GluA3, or all t...

We investigate the behavior of various spin-systems that are subject to the highly correlated and extremely diluted quenched disorder as provided by the fractal aerogel model. For these systems, it is (easily) established that, at all temperatures, the free energy is identical to that of the corresponding uniform system. The surface tension, however, behaves quite differently. Foremost, at any ...