DAVID (Database for Annotation, Visualization and Integrated Discovery) is a bioinformatics resource developed by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at Frederick in conjunction with the Laboratory of Immunopathogenesis and Bioinformatics (LIB), SAIC Frederick. This resource is described as “a graph theory evidence-based method to agglomerate speciesspecific gene/protein i...

Recent experimental results demonstrated that polymer grafted nanoparticles in solvents display self-assembly behavior similar to the microphase separation of block copolymers and other amphiphiles. We present a mean-field theory and complementary computer simulations to shed light on the parametric underpinnings of the experimental observations. Our theory suggests that such self-assembled str...

The paper analyzes spatial Cournot competition among multi-store firms. It demonstrates that the complex problem of determining equilibrium store locations for competing multi-store firms can be approximated by a simple one, in which each firm behaves as a multi-store monopolist in choosing its store locations. A firm’s equilibrium store locations often coincide with its monopoly locations, and...

We explain effective charge anomalies recently observed for fractional quantum Hall edge states at ν=5/2 [M. Dolev, Y. Gross, Y. C. Chung, M. Heiblum, V. Umansky, and D. Mahalu, Phys. Rev. B 81, 161303(R) (2010)]. The experimental data of differential conductance and excess noise are fitted, using the anti-Pfaffian model, by properly taking into account renormalizations of the Luttinger paramet...

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs), discovered by Japanese scientist Sumio Iijima, have outstanding material properties such as mechanical, thermal, electrical, and magnetic properties. For example, CNTs are not only lighter than common irons, but also 100 times stronger than the irons. However, CNTs are so tiny, that is, surface area per volume is relatively large. Consequently, they tend to agglomerate....

Disperse dye inks are used in the inkjet textile printing of polyester fabrics. We aimed at developing a black disperse dye ink consisting of yellow, magenta, and cyan dyes that met the exacting requirements of safety, image durability, and storage stability. One difficulty we met was dye particles tending to aggregate/agglomerate, leading to sedimentation and the threat of head clogging and/or...

This new blood test for infection is based on the phenomenon of leukergy in which white cells agglomerate in the peripheral blood of patients with inflammatory diseases. It was used in 26 patients with proven bone or joint infection and was positive in 25. The leukergy test was more accurate than the ESR, white cell count or blood culture. The percentage of cells agglomerated correlated with th...

The dispersion of a filler immersed in a polymer flow submitted to shear is the result of the counterbalance between hydrodynamic forces acting on the agglomerate and its cohesive forces. The nature of the filler, its surface treatment or its degree of infiltration by the polymer should impact its cohesivity. To better understand the influence of these parameters on dispersion, direct observati...

Yttria-doped zirconia powders" with an extremely small crystallite size (8 nm) and a narrow size distribution have been prepared by gel precipitation methods. Precipitation of an alkoxide solution in water ("alkoxide" synthesis) results in weaker agglomerates when compared with a precipitation of a metal chloride solution in ammonia ("chloride" synthesis). Both types of agglomerate are fracture...

We apply a recently proposed ([3]) robust overlapping Schwarz method with a certain spectral construction of the coarse space in the setting of element agglomeration algebraic multigrid methods (or agglomeration AMGe) for elliptic problems with high-contrast coefficients. Our goal is to design multilevel iterative methods that converge independent of the contrast in the coefficients. We present...