The paper deals with the relationship betweeen the water content of washed Serratia marcescens and the thermodynamic activity of water, a,, over the range 0 < a, < 1.0. Two overlapping types of measurement are used: osmotic water exchange and water-vapour sorption. The data are given in terms of the equation w = Bm-' where w is water content, m is external osmolality (actual or effective, depen...

let $l$ be a completely regular frame and $mathcal{r}l$ be the ‎ring of continuous real-valued functions on $l$‎. ‎we show that the‎ ‎lattice $zid(mathcal{r}l)$ of $z$-ideals of $mathcal{r}l$ is a‎ ‎normal coherent yosida frame‎, ‎which extends the corresponding $c(x)$‎ ‎result of mart'{i}nez and zenk‎. ‎this we do by exhibiting‎ ‎$zid(mathcal{r}l)$ as a quotient of $rad(mathcal{r}l)$‎, ‎the‎ ‎...

We describe a slit-pore model and a fast density functional theory (a 'slab-DFT') that predict gas adsorption and the isosteric heat in active carbons. The DFT parameters are fitted to reproduce adsorption isotherms of each pure gas in graphitic slit pores generated by Monte-Carlo simulation. A novel feature of this work is that gas surface interactions are calibrated to a high surface area car...

We present the RUPTURA code (https://github.com/iraspa/ruptura) as a free and open-source software package (MIT license) for (1) simulation of gas adsorption breakthrough curves, (2) mixture prediction using methods like Ideal Adsorption Solution Theory (IAST), segregated-IAST explicit isotherm models, (3) fitting models on computed or measured data. The combination with RASPA enables computati...

Let S be a set of n ideals of a commutative ring A and let Geven (respectively Godd) denote the product of all the sums of even (respectively odd) number of ideals of S. If n ≤ 6 the product of Geven and the intersection of all ideals of S is included in Godd. In the case A is an Noetherian integral domain, this inclusion is replaced by equality if and only if A is a Dedekind domain.

The concept of a 0-distributive poset is introduced. It is shown that a section semicomplemented poset is distributive if and only if it is 0-distributive. It is also proved that every pseudocomplemented poset is 0-distributive. Further, 0-distributive posets are characterized in terms of their ideal lattices.

An important predictor of historical sound change, functional load, fails to capture insights from speech perception. Building on ideal observer models of word recognition, we devise a new definition of functional load that incorporates both a priori expectedness and perceptual information. We explore this new measure with a simple model and find that it outperforms tra-

To construct rapid C3H8 transport pathways in polymer matrix, alkyl chain-functionalized graphene oxide (GO) was prepared via grafting octadecylamine (ODA) molecules and then embedded into polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) matrix to obtain high-efficiency mixed matrix membranes (MMMs). The incorporation of alkyl chains contributes to lowering the surface energy of GO nanosheets and providing higher a...

Using first-principles calculations, we report structural and electronic properties of CO, NO$_2$, NO molecular adsorption on $\beta$-In$_2$Se$_3$ in comparison to a previous study alpha-phase. Analysis energies extent charge transfer indicates be selective detecting gas molecules. We found molecules acting as donor whereas CO NO2 acceptors, respectively, experiencing physisorption all cases. O...