The observed L/E flatness of the electron-like event ratio in the Super-Kamiokande atmospheric neutrino data strongly favors a quasi bi-maximal mixing matrix. This situation is here exploited to understand the numerical results of Yasuda on the high energy cosmic neutrino flux. In agreement with the Yasuda result, we analytically show how the quasi bi-maximal neutrino mixing makes the high ener...

The present study investigates the use of different GE mixing rules in cubic equations of state for prediction of phase behavior of multicomponent hydrocarbon systems. To predict VLE data in multicomponent symmetric and asymmetric mixtures such as systems that contain light gases (nitrogen, carbon dioxide, etc.) and heavy hydrocarbons, the SRK equation of state has been combined with excess Gib...

In order to understand what makes natural proteins fold rapidly, Sali, Shakhnovich and Karplus [SSK94a], [SSK94b] had used the Metropolis algorithm to search for the minimum energy conformations of chains of beads in the lattice model of protein folding. Based on their computational experiments, they concluded that the Metropolis algorithm would find the minimum energy conformation of a chain o...

Diapycnal mixing affects the uptake of heat and carbon by the ocean as well as plays an important role in global ocean circulations and climate. In the thermocline, winds provide an important energy source for furnishing diapycnal mixing primarily through the generation of near-inertial internal waves. However, this contribution is largely missing in the current generation of climate models. In...

The objective of this paper was to gain an understanding of the mixing and characterization of nanosized powders. Three different nanosized material systems were selected based on their physical and chemical properties. Mixing experiments of the selected nanopowders were performed using a variety of environmentally friendly dry powder processing devices and the rapid expansion of supercritical ...

The most general Lagrangian for a model with two U(1) gauge symmetries contains a renormalizable operator which mixes their gauge kinetic terms. Such kinetic mixing can be generated at arbitrarily high scales but will not be suppressed by large masses. In models whose supersymmetry (SUSY)breaking hidden sectors contain U(1) gauge factors, we show that such terms will generically arise and commu...

Estimates of the upwelling of bottom and deep water have recently been used to deduce the magnitude of area-averaged mixing activity and the required dissipation of kinetic energy that is input by winds and tides. Here we raise questions about this link between upwelling and the dissipation of energy. Several processes are discussed, each of which lead to the upwelling of water across neutral d...

We examine whether an appreciable value of the lepton flavor mixing angle θ13 at the electroweak scale ΛEW can be radiatively generated from θ13 = 0 ◦ at the GUT scale ΛGUT. It is found that the renormalization-group running and seesaw threshold effects may lead to θ13 ∼ 5 ◦ at low energies for two simple large-maximal mixing patterns of the MNS matrix in the minimal supersymmetric standard mod...