Cirrus clouds are ubiquitous in the tropical tropopause region and play a major role in the Earth's climate. Any changes to cirrus abundance due to natural or anthropogenic influences must be considered to evaluate future climate change. The detailed impact of cirrus clouds on climate depends on ice particle number, size, morphology, and composition. These properties depend in turn on the nucle...

Water-mediated bond formation: The structure of the peptide GPG-NH2 has been investigated in aqueous solution to understand the role of water in the formation of a β-turn. Using a combination of neutron diffraction enhanced by isotopic substitution, NMR spectroscopy, and computer simulations, it was found that water is an essential component to initiate folding in solution.

The alpha-aminoisobutyric acid-D-proline (Aib-(D)Pro) dipeptide is an obligatory Type I' beta-turn forming segment that nucleates hairpin formation.

Kykyri, Virpi-Liisa Helping Clients to Help Themselves. A Discursive Perspective to Process Consulting Practices in Multi-party Settings Jyväskylä, University of Jyväskylä, 2008, 76 p. (Jyväskylä Studies in Education, Psychology and Social Research ISSN 0075-4625; 330) ISBN 978-951-39-3082-0 (PDF), 978-951-39-3071-4 (nid.) Finnish Summary Diss. This study approaches process consulting work as c...

We report on the status of emittance tuning techniques at the CESR Test Accelerator (CesrTA). The CesrTA experimental program requires that we operate in a variety of machine lattices, each with the smallest possible emittance. We utilize high-bandwidth BPM electronics for fast, precision measurements of orbit, betatron phase, transverse coupling, and dispersion. Analysis of the data and implem...

The surveillance game [Fomin et al., 2012] models the problem of web-page prefetching as a pursuit evasion game played on a graph. This two-player game is played turn-by-turn. The first player, called the observer, can mark a fixed amount of vertices at each turn. The second one controls a surfer that stands at vertices of the graph and can slide along edges. The surfer starts at some initially...

As suggested by Frank [1] an icosahedral short-range order should be energetically favoured in undercooled metallic melts. Such a short-range order is predicted to influence the energy of the interface between the liquid and a solid nucleus, depending on the structure of the solid phase [2]. This in turn decisively impacts the nucleation behaviour of solid phases from the undercooled melt, and ...

Recently, many web services to provide information for public transport are developed and released. They are optimized for mobile devices such a smartphone. We are also developing better path planning system for route buses and trains called “Bus-Net”[1]. However these systems only provide paths and related information before the user start moving. So we propose a context aware navigation to ch...

The coherent beam-beam interaction in the absence of Ladau damping is studied with a computer simulation of four, space-charge compensate colliding beams. Results are presented for the modes, phase space structures, widths, and growth rates of coherent beam-beam resonances. These results are compared with solutions of the Vlasov equation, and with measurements made at the DCI storage ring which...

We investigated the effects of polysaccharides from the brown seaweed Sargassum graminifolium (Turn.) (SGP) on calcium oxalate crystallization, and determined its antioxidant activities. To examine the effects of SGP on calcium oxalate crystallization, we monitored nucleation and aggregation of calcium oxalate monohydrate crystals, using trisodium citrate as a positive control. We assessed anti...