This paper introduces a Moving Finite Elements Method (MFEM) based on cubic Hermite polynomial local approximations to handle Population Balance Equations (PBE) modeling breakage phenomena. The adequacy and performance of the MFEM framework are tested in two case studies involving breakage: a benchmark problem with known analytical solution and the hydrolysis of starch. Both examples emphasize ...

A molecular understanding of genetic disease in which peroxisomal functions are impaired depends on analysis of the structure of normal and mutant enzymes of peroxisomes. We report experiments describing the isolation, characterization, and immunocytochemical localization of enoyl-CoA hydratase/3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase bifunctional enzyme (PBE) of the peroxisomal fatty acid beta-oxidatio...

We show by counter-example that the soundness security requirement for witness encryp-tion given by Garg, Gentry, Sahai and Waters (STOC 2013) does not suffice for the securityof their own applications. We introduce adaptively-sound (AS) witness encryption to fill thegap. We then introduce asymmetric password-based encryption (A-PBE). This offers gains overclassical, symmetric p...

We propose a different way to satisfy both gradient expansion limiting behavior and the Lieb-Oxford bound in a generalized gradient approximation exchange functional by extension of the Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof (PBE) form. Motivation includes early and recent exploration of modified values for the gradient expansion coefficient in the PBE exchange-correlation functional (cf. the PBEsol functional...

In this work, we present how domain modeling and Programming by Example techniques can be combined to carry through a EUD approach. Our techniques are based on detecting iteration patterns from user monitoring as well as extracting knowledge about the user interface itself. Combining those, dynamic behavior can be characterized, getting maximum amount of semantic at each user step. This approac...

Procedures are the basic units of compilation in traditional optimization frameworks. This presents problems to compilers targeting EPIC architectures, since the limited scope of a single procedure is usually insufficient for extracting ILP and identifying enough optimization opportunities. Although inlining can expand the scope of optimization routines, it is not applicable to all call sites a...

We apply the adaptive multilevel finite element techniques described in [20] to the nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann equation (PBE) in the context of biomolecules. Fast and accurate numerical solution of the PBE in this setting is usually difficult to accomplish due to presence of discontinuous coefficients, delta functions, three spatial dimensions, unbounded domains, and rapid (exponential) nonlin...

using different DFT methods including B3LYP/6-31G(d), VWN/6-31G(d), PBE/TZP and PBE/6-31G(d) shows that, contrary to C60 , which prefers D5d symmetry, the ground state of B80 + adopts S6 point group symmetry. A D3d structure is identified as a saddle point among the S6 minima of B80 . The distortion of D3d to S6 in B80 + is attributed to a superposition of Jahn–Teller and pseudo-Jahn–Teller eff...

This paper analyzes a single television station’s choice of airing tune-ins (preview advertisements). I consider two consecutive programs located along a unit line. Potential viewers know the earlier program but are uncertain about the later one. They may learn its location through a tune-in if they watch the earlier program and the television station chose to air a tune-in, or by sampling it f...

The bark extract of Pinus Maritima (PBE), a rich in phenolic acids, polyphenols and in particular flavonoids mixture, was examined for skin cancer preventive action that was evaluated in two different experimental animal tumor models induced by ultraviolet radiation (UVR) and combination of UVR with 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene. Significant decrease in the number of animals bearing tumors and...