A detailed study was made on the influence of salts on those physicochemical properties of sodium gelatinate which are regulated by Donnan's law of membrane equilibria; namely, osmotic pressure, membrane potentials, and swelling. It was found that the influence of salts on these properties in the case of sodium gelatinate obeys the same rules of valency as in the case of the influence of salts ...

Cell adhesion is studied on multivalent knottins, displaying RGD ligands with a high affinity for integrin receptors, that are assembled on CB[8]-methylviologen-modified surfaces. The multivalency in the knottins stems from the number of tryptophan amino acid moieties, between 0 and 4, that can form a heteroternary complex with cucurbit[8]uril (CB[8]) and surface-tethered methylviologen (MV2+)....

Resonance weights derived from the Natural Resonance Theory Ž . NRT , introduced in the preceding paper are used to calculate ‘‘natural bond order,’’ ‘‘natural atomic valency,’’ and other atomic and bond indices reflecting the resonance composition of the wave function. These indices are found to give Ž significantly better agreement with observed properties empirical valency, . bond lengths th...

This paper reports on the status of our ongoing project to extend, refine, and maintain the lexicon of the ElixirFM system. The latest release of ElixirFM has been enriched with valency frames for selected verbal lexemes. We briefly outline some other similar projects for Modern Standard Arabic and present crucial axioms of the approach we have adopted, which is Functional Generative Descriptio...

Light verb constructions (LVCs) pose a serious challenge for both theoretical and applied linguistics as their syntactic structures are not solely determined by verbs alone but also by predicative nouns. In this contribution, we introduce an initial step to a new formal lexicographic representation of LVCs for the valency lexicon of Czech verbs, VALLEX. The main idea underlying our representati...

This paper introduces a novel study on the sense of valency as a vital process for achieving adaptation in agents through evolution and developmental learning. Unlike previous studies, we hypothesise that behaviour-related information must be underspecified in the genes and that additional mechanisms such as valency modulate final behavioural responses. These processes endow the agent with the ...