Mapping vesicle shapes into the phase diagram: A comparison of experiment and theory. Abstract Phase-contrast microscopy is used to monitor the shapes of micron-scale fluid-phase phospholipid-bilayer vesicles in aqueous solution. At fixed temperature , each vesicle undergoes thermal shape fluctuations. We are able experimentally to characterize the thermal shape ensemble by digitizing the vesic...

Though some components play a major role for enhancing the quality of a system, but exactly identifying those components at the early stage is a big challenge. Metrics that are designed at the early stage guide both the test manager and the system analyst in decision making. In this paper, we propose an Influence Metric at the architectural level to get the influence of a component towards the ...

HYPERDIRE is a project devoted to the creation of a set of Mathematica based programs for the differential reduction of hypergeometric functions. The current version includes two parts: the first one, FdFunction, for manipulations with Appell hypergeometric functions FD of r variables; and the second one, FsFunction, for manipulations with Lauricella-Saran hypergeometric functions FS of three v...

Aim of Software testing is to evaluate an attribute or capability of system and determine that whether it meets required prospects. The most rationally challenging part of testing is to design of test cases. Now a days, UML has been extensively used for object oriented modeling and design. This is due to the fact that UML metamodel extends support to describe structural and behavioural aspects ...

In this position paper, we survey and identify tool features that provide cognitive support for reverse engineering and program comprehension of very large reverse engineered sequence diagrams. From these features we synthesize user requirements for a sequence diagram viewer, to which we add system requirements such as memory and processing scalability. We briefly describe a pluggable sequence ...

In this paper we study the problem of determining the homology groups of a quotient of a topological space by an action of a group. The method is to represent the original topological space as a homotopy limit of a diagram, and then act with the group on that diagram. Once it is possible to understand what the action of the group on every space in the diagram is, and what it does to the morphis...

A novel way of looking at the evolution of star clusters is presented. With a dynamical temperature, given by the mean kinetic energy of the cluster stars, and a dynamical luminosity, which is defined as the kinetic energy of the stars leaving the cluster in analogy to the energy of photons emitted by a star, the dissolution of star clusters is studied using a new dynamical temperature-luminosi...

Proteins often have several motifs with distinct evolutionary histories. Proteins with similar motifs have similar biochemical properties and thus related biological functions. We constructed a unique comparative genomics database termed the SALAD database (http://salad.dna.affrc.go.jp/salad/) from plant-genome-based proteome data sets. We extracted evolutionarily conserved motifs by MEME softw...