Mixtures of powder and liquid are ubiquitous in nature as well industries exhibit complex flowing deforming behaviors, including sol to gel transition under shear stress. In order better understand the characteristic features this type mixture, we observed behavior a mixture colloidal silica particles water model system vibration. The showed different states, from powder-like viscous fluid-like...

Self-suspension is becoming an increasingly prominent characteristic in real-time systems such as: (i) I/O-intensive systems (ii) multi-core processors, and (iii) computation offloading systems with coprocessors, like Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). In this paper, we study the schedulability of multisegment self-suspension tasks under fixed-priority scheduling, where the executions of a multi...

We consider complements of links in the suspension of an orientable surface S of genus g > 0, and show that their fundamental groups naturally admit presentations which are analogues of Dehn presentations of classical link complements. For certain links, we show that they admit canonical cubings of non-positive curvature, and that certain groups admitting Dehn-like presentations contain closed ...

The infrastructure of the pericardial cells of adult female Drosophila melanogaster is illustrated. The data presented suggest that the pericardial cell internalizes by pinocytosis complex and possibly toxic compounds present in suspension in the haemolymph. These compounds are broken down to soluble molecules within lysosome-like vacuoles. The pericardial cells thus behave like the reticulo-en...

We isolated a Mycoplasma hominis-like mycoplasma from a stock culture of Chlamydia pneumoniae TW-183 obtained from the American Type Culture Collection and eradicated the contaminant by treating the stock suspension with a nonionic detergent, Igepal CA-630. The M. hominis-like mycoplasma neither inhibits nor enhances the infectivity of C. pneumoniae for HEp-2 cells.