The laws of thermodynamics constrain the action of biochemical systems. However, thermodynamic data on biochemical compounds can be difficult to find and is cumbersome to perform calculations with manually. Even simple thermodynamic questions like 'how much Gibbs energy is released by ATP hydrolysis at pH 5?' are complicated excessively by the search for accurate data. To address this problem, ...

In the works of K.A. Pericak-Spector and S. Spector [9, 10] a class of self-similar solutions are constructed for the equations of radial isotropic elastodynamics that describe cavitating solutions. Cavitating solutions decrease the total mechanical energy and provide a striking example of non-uniqueness of entropy weak solutions (for polyconvex energies) due to pointsingularities at the cavity...

We propose a simple effective model for the description of interfaces in 2d statistical models, based on the first-order treatment of an action corresponding to the length of the interface. The universal prediction of this model for the interface free energy agrees with the result of an exact calculation in the case of the 2d Ising model. This model appears as a dimensional reduction of the Nam...

Superpixels are becoming increasingly popular for use in computer vision applications. However, there are few algorithms that output a desired number of regular, compact superpixels with a low computational overhead. We introduce a novel algorithm that clusters pixels in the combined five-dimensional color and image plane space to efficiently generate compact, nearly uniform superpixels. The si...

This paper presents a numerical investigation for laminar forced convection flow of a radiating gas in a rectangular duct with a solid element that makes a backward facing step. The fluid is treated as a gray, absorbing, emitting and scattering medium. The governing differential equations consisting the continuity, momentum and energy are solved numerically by the computational fluid dynamics t...

Logged forests cover four million square kilometers of the tropics, capturing carbon more rapidly than temperate and harboring rich biodiversity. Restoring these is essential to help avoid worst impacts climate change. Yet monitoring tropical forest recovery challenging. We track abundance early-successional species in a restoration concession Indonesia. If are carefully chosen, they can be use...

Superpixel segmentation is widely used in the preprocessing step of many applications. Most of existing methods are based on a photometric criterion combined to the position of the pixels. In the same way as the SLIC method, based on k-means segmentation, a new algorithm is introduced. The main contribution lies on the definition of a new distance for the construction of the superpixels. This d...