Due to their non-toxic nature, biodegradability and production from renewable resources, research has shown an increasing interest in the use of biosurfactants in a wide variety of applications. This paper reviews the characterization of rhamnolipid and sophorolipid biosurfactants based on their hydrophilicity/hydrophobicity and their ability to form microemulsions with a range of oils without ...

The present note is devoted to study a functional equation on a locally compact Abelian group group which appears in characterization of probability distributions by the optimality of an estimate. Let X be a second countable locally compact Abelian group, Y = X be its character group, (x; y) be the value of a character y 2 Y at an element x 2 X. Denote by M(X) the convolution semigroup of proba...

Let $L = U_3(9)$ be the simple projective unitary group in dimension 3 over a field  with 92 elements. In this article, we classify groups with the same order and degree pattern as an almost simple group related to $L$. Since $Aut(L)equiv Z_4$ hence almost simple groups related to $L$ are $L$, $L : 2$ or $L : 4$. In fact, we prove that $L$, $L : 2$ and $L : 4$ are OD-characterizable.

Let $G$ be a finite group and $pi(G)$ be the set of all prime divisors of $|G|$. The prime graph of $G$ is a simple graph $Gamma(G)$ with vertex set $pi(G)$ and two distinct vertices $p$ and $q$ in $pi(G)$ are adjacent by an edge if an only if $G$ has an element of order $pq$. In this case, we write $psim q$. Let $|G= p_1^{alpha_1}cdot p_2^{alpha_2}cdots p_k^{alpha_k}$, where $p_1

Applications of nanowires into future generation nanodevices require a complete understanding of the mechanical properties of the nanowires. A great research effort has been made in the past two decades to understand the deformation physics and mechanical behaviors of nanowires, and to interpret the discrepancies between experimental measurements and theoretical predictions. This review focused...

Chairman: J. Jordan (USA); Secretary: K. Izutsu (Japan); Titular Members: A. K. Covington (UK); J. Juillard (France); R. C. Kapoor (India); E. Pungor (Hungary); Associate Members: W. Davison (UK); R. A. Durst (USA); M. Gross (France); K. M. Kadish (USA); R. Kalvoda (Czechoslovakia); H. Kao (China); Y. Marcus (Israel); T. Mussini (Italy); H. W. NUrnberg (FRG); M. Senda (Japan); N. Tanaka (Japan)...

This paper is part of an ongoing research program to understand the cognitive and functional bases for the origins and evolution of spatial language. Following a cognitive-functional approach, we first investigate the cross-linguistic variety in spatial language, with special attention for spatial perspective. Based on this language-typological data, we hypothesize which cognitive mechanisms ar...

The recursive inverse eigenvalue problem for matrices is studied, where for each leading principle submatrix an eigenvalue and associated left and right eigenvectors are assigned. Existence and uniqueness results as well as explicit formulas are proven, and applications to nonnegative matrices, Zmatrices, M -matrices, symmetric matrices, Stieltjes matrices and inverse M -matrices are considered...