The twist number of a plane graph associated with a link’s checkerboard coloring is defined. The twist number of any planar pseudograph is shown to be determined by the Tutte polynomial. This allows the definition of twist number to be extended to non-planar graphs, for which the twist number is also determined by the Tutte polynomial. As a corollary, the twist number of an alternating link is ...

We investigate twist-3 effects in the polarized virtual photon. The structure function g γ 2 , which exists only for the virtual photon target and can be measured in future polarized e + e − collider experiments, receives both twist-2 and twist-3 contributions. The twist-3 part is analyzed in pure QED interaction as well as in LO QCD. We find the twist-3 contribution is appreciable for the phot...

The 20.9 kDa protein encoded by TWIST1 gene is a highly conserved transcription factor that belongs to the family of basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) proteins. In vertebrates, it is involved in embryonic development through the regulation of epithelial-mesenchymal transitions (EMT) during neural crest migration, also it regulates mesoderm determination, myogenesis, and morphogenesis (Hebrok et al....

BACKGROUND Squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN) is the seventh most common cancer worldwide. Unfortunately, the survival of patients with SCCHN has not improved in the last 40 years, and thus new targets for therapy are needed. Recently, elevations in serum level of interleukin 6 (IL-6) and expression of Twist in tumor samples were found to be associated with poor clinical outco...

this paper introduces an innovative partially destructive method, called “twist-off”, for the assessment of in situ concrete strength. in this method a 40mm diameter metal probe is bonded to a concrete surface by means of a high strength epoxy resin adhesive. to measure the concrete compressive strength, a torque is applied using an ordinary torque-meter and the maximum shear stress at failure ...

We consider the azimuthal angle dependence in the cross section of the hard leptoproduction of a photon on a nucleon target. We show that this dependence allows to define observables that isolate the twist-two and twist-three sectors in the deeply virtual Compton scattering amplitude. All twist-two and twist-three Compton form factors can be extracted from measurements of the charge odd part of...

An attempt to estimate the relative contributions of twisting and bending to the free energy of superhelix formation from the relaxed DNA is undertaken. The extent of teritiary ordering (number of DNA axis turns tau) and that of secondary ordering (duplex twist angle beta) have been taken as thermodynamical parameters, which characterize the state of the supercoild DNA at the fixed linking numb...

“Static” structure functions are the probabilistic distributions computed from the square of the light-front wavefunctions of the target hadron. In contrast, the “dynamic” structure functions measured in deep inelastic lepton-hadron scattering include the effects of rescattering associated with the Wilson line. Initialand final-state rescattering, neglected in the parton model, can have a profo...

We show that the continuous cholesteric fingers, which form in homeotropic samples at the unwinding temperature of the cholesteric phase, drift and spiral when they are subjected to a temperature gradient. This phenomenon is attributed to the appearance of a Lehmann thermomechanical torque. Measurements of the finger drift velocity on both sides of the compensation temperature of a cholesteric ...

The QCD effects of twist-4 operators on the first moment of nucleon spin-dependent structure function g1(x,Q ) are studied in the framework of operator product expansion and renormalization group method. We investigate the operator mixing through renormalization of the twist-4 operators including those proportional to the equation of motion by evaluating off-shell Green’s functions in the usual...