BACKGROUND Throughout evolution, the LIM domain has been deployed in many different domain configurations, which has led to the formation of a large and distinct group of proteins. LIM proteins are involved in relaying stimuli received at the cell surface to the nucleus in order to regulate cell structure, motility, and division. Despite their fundamental roles in cellular processes and human d...

The Michelsen stability and multiphase flash calculation by direct minimization of Gibbs free energy of the system at constant temperature and pressure, was used for systems containing gas hydrates. The solid hydrate phase was treated as a solid solution. The fugacities of all components of the hydrate phase were calculated as a function of compositions by the rearranged model of van der Wa...

The LIM domain is a zinc finger structure that is present in several types of proteins, including homeodomain transcription factors, kinases and proteins that consist of several LIM domains. Proteins containing LIM domains have been discovered to play important roles in a variety of fundamental biological processes including cytoskeleton organization, cell lineage specification and organ develo...

An infinitary version of the notion of free products has been introduced and investigated by G. Higman [5]. Let Gi(i ∈ I) be groups and ∗i∈XGi the free product of Gi(i ∈ X) for X ⋐ I and pXY : ∗i∈YGi → ∗i∈XGi the canonical homomorphism for X ⊆ Y ⋐ I. ( X ⋐ I denotes that X is a finite subset of I.) Then, the unrestricted free product is the inverse limit lim ←−(∗i∈XGi, pXY : X ⊆ Y ⋐ I). We rema...

The most prominent aspect of multiphase flow is the variation in the physical distribution of the phases in the flow conduit known as the flow pattern. Several different flow patterns can exist under different flow conditions which have significant effects on liquid holdup, pressure gradient and heat transfer. Gas-liquid two-phase flow in an annulus can be found in a variety of practical situat...

The variety of magnetic phases observed in rare-earth heterostructures at low temperatures [1], such as Ho/Y, may be elucidated by an ANNNI-like model Hamiltonian. In previous work modelling bulk Ho [2], such a Hamiltonian with a one-dimensional parameter space produced a single multiphase point. In contrast, the parameter space of the heterostructure model is three-dimensional, and instead of ...

The development of membrane technology is central to fields ranging from resource harvesting to medicine, but the existing designs are unable to handle the complex sorting of multiphase substances required for many systems. Especially, the dynamic multiphase transport and separation under a steady-state applied pressure have great benefits for membrane science, but have not been realized at pre...

A Banach space X is asymptotically symmetric (a.s.) if for some C <∞, for all m ∈ N, for all bounded sequences (xj)j=1 ⊆ X, 1 ≤ i ≤ m, for all permutations σ of {1, . . . ,m} and all ultrafilters U1, . . . ,Um on N, lim n1,U1 . . . lim nm,Um ∥∥∥∥ m ∑ i=1 xini ∥∥∥∥ ≤ C lim nσ(1),Uσ(1) . . . lim nσ(m),Uσ(m) ∥∥∥∥ m ∑

The variety of magnetic phases observed in rare-earth heterostructures at low temperatures (Jehan et al 1993 Phys. Rev. B 48 5594–606), such as Ho/Y, may be elucidated by an ANNNI-like model Hamiltonian. In previous work modelling bulk Ho (Seno, Rabson and Yeomans 1993 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 26 4887–905), such a Hamiltonian with a one-dimensional parameter space produced a single multiphase poi...

A pore-scale model based on the lattice Boltzmann (LB) method is developed for multiphase reactive transport with phase transitions and dissolution-precipitation processes. The model combines the single-component multiphase Shan-Chen LB model [X. Shan and H. Chen, Phys. Rev. E 47, 1815 (1993)], the mass transport LB model [S. P. Sullivan et al., Chem. Eng. Sci. 60, 3405 (2005)], and the dissolu...