This paper reports the results of a variety of experiments carried out for understanding the solvation behavior of potassium thiocyanate in methanol–water mixtures. Electrical conductivity, speed of sound, viscosity, and FT-Raman spectra of potassium thiocyanate solutions in 5 and 10% methanol–water (w/w) mixtures were measured as functions of concentration and temperature. The conductivity and...

The methyl groups of choline which have been shown to be donated in various reactions in animal metabolism (1, 2) have not been demonstrated to participate in plant methylation reactions. Experiments by Matchett, Kirkwood, and Marion (3, 4), Dubeck and Kirkwood (5), and Sribney and Kirkwood (6), with Hordeum distichum, Ricinus communis, and Dice&a hybrids in which choline was supplied as a poss...

The mesocrystal showing both electrorheological and magnetorheological effects is called electro-magnetorheological (EMR) solids. Prediction of the overall magnetic properties of the EMR solids is a challenging task due to the coexistence of the uniaxially anisotropic behavior and structural transition as well as long-range interaction between the suspended particles. To consider the uniaxial a...

In this paper, we use PAFAS (Process Algebra for Faster Asynchronous Systems) to compare the worst-case efficiency of three bounded-buffer implementations: Fifo, Pipe and Buff. Fifo implements the buffer as a first-in-first-out queue, Pipe implements the buffer as a pipeline queue and Buff implements the buffer as circular queue in an array. We contrast our results with those in [2] and [10] wh...

We prove the existence of quadratic polynomials having a Julia set with positive Lebesgue measure. We find such examples with a Cremer fixed point, with a Siegel disk, or with infinitely many satellite renormalizations.

In contrast to the broad knowledge about aqueous polyelectrolyte solutions, less is known about the properties in aprotic and apolar solvents. We therefore investigate the behavior of sulfonated polyelectrolytes in sodium form in the presence of different solvents via all-atom molecular dynamics simulations. The results clearly reveal strong variations in ion condensation constants and polyelec...

The effects of mildly acidic conditions on the free energy of unfolding (DeltaG(u)(buff)) of the pore-forming alpha-hemolysin (alphaHL) from Staphylococcus aureus were assessed between pH 5.0 and 7.5 by measuring intrinsic tryptophan fluorescence, circular dichroism and elution time in size exclusion chromatography during urea denaturation. Decreasing the pH from 7.0 to 5.0 reduced the calculat...