Phenomenological Elasticity Theory Approach to Bolalipid Membranes

In silico design of robust bolalipid membranes.

The robustness of microorganisms used in industrial fermentations is essential for the efficiency and yield of the production process. A viable tool to increase the robustness is through engineering of the cell membrane and especially by incorporating lipids from species that survive under harsh conditions. Bolalipids are tetraether lipids found in Archaea bacteria, conferring stability to thes...

Geometric theory on the elasticity of bio-membranes

Abstract. The purpose of this paper is to study the shapes and stabilities of biomembranes within the framework of exterior differential forms. After a brief review of the current status in theoretical and experimental studies on the shapes of biomembranes, a geometric scheme is proposed to discuss the shape equation of closed lipid bilayers, the shape equation and boundary conditions of open l...

non-corrective approach to pronunciation

the aim of this study has been to find answers for the following questions: 1. what is the effect of immediate correction on students pronunciation errors? 2. what would be the effect of teaching the more rgular patterns of english pronunciation? 3. is there any significant difference between the two methods of dealing with pronuciation errore, i. e., correction and the teaching of the regular ...

Phenomenological Theory of Survival

Theoretical analysis proves that human survivability is dominated by an unusual physical, rather than biological, mechanism, which yields an exact law. The law agrees with all experimental data, but, contrary to existing theories, it is the same for an entire species, i.e., it is independent of the population, its phenotypes, environment and history. The law implies that the survivability chang...

A phenomenological approach to understanding suicidal behavior.