Arcobacter spp. have recently been genetically differentiated as a genus distinct from Campylobacter. Physiologically, Arcobacter spp. are aerotolerant bacteria, while Campylobacter spp. are microaerophilic. However, since Arcobacter spp. have been difficult to grow to high population densities in broth media, alternative culture techniques were investigated. A biphasic culture system was devel...

In this paper we discuss some recent advances in rnolecular dynamics of liquid crystals by means of NMR relaxation studies [1,2]. In particular, pulsed NMR techniques using a deuteron probe enable separation of spectral densities of motion [3-8] in liquid crystals. These spectral densities contain information on the frequency spectra of fluctuations from motions such as director fluctuations, m...

in this paper, at first we have formulated the lowest order constrained variational method for the relativistic case of an interacting fermion system at finite temperature. then we have used this formalism to calculate some thermodynamic properties of liquid in the relativistic regime. the results show that the difference between total energies of relativistic and non-relativistic cases of liqu...

A statistical mechanical based equation of state has been employed to calculate the liquid density of lead, mercury, bismuth and lead-bismuth and lead-lithium eutectic alloys.The equation is basically that of Song, Mason and Ihm [Ihm G, Song Y, Mason EA. J. Chem. Phys.1991; 94: 3839] which is modified by Ghatee and Boushehri. Three temperature dependent parameters are required to use this e...

The high-frequency sound velocity v( infinity ) of liquid water has been determined to densities of 1.37 g/cm(3) by inelastic x-ray scattering. In comparison to the hydrodynamic sound velocity v(0), the increase of v( infinity ) with density is substantially less pronounced, indicating that, at high density, the hydrogen-bond network is decreasingly relevant to the physical properties of liquid...

Orientation distributions in droplets of liquid crystals with homeotropic anchoring are computed with a simulated annealing algorithm that minimizes the free energy of the Oseen-Frank continuum theory. The droplets exhibit multiple orientational steady states that are separated by finite energy barriers over the entire range of the dimensionless ratio of surface to elastic forces, with maximum ...