For the proper simulation of processes inside microfluidic devices, proper model for blood flow must be used. We use the lattice-Boltzmann method for the blood plasma flow and the immersed boundary method for the description of red blood cells and other components of blood. One of the four key mechanisms governing the elastic behaviour of a red blood cell is the in-plane shear modulus of elasti...

We report the abundances and hydrogen-isotopic compositions (D/H ratios) of fatty acids extracted from hot-spring microbial mats in Yellowstone National Park. The terrestrial hydrothermal environment provides a useful system for studying D/H fractionations because the numerous microbial communities in and around the springs are visually distinct, separable, and less complex than those in many o...

The Great Artesian Basin (GAB) of Australia underlies some of the driest parts of South Australia and Queensland and feeds numerous freshwater springs. Prominent and endangered components of the GAB spring community are snails of the family Hydrobiidae. This paper examines the evolutionary relationships of the entire hydrobiid fauna associated with the GAB, and includes appropriate non-GAB spec...

I compiled information from the literature on 140 population outbreaks of 26 species of forest Lepidoptera that occurred between the years 1932 and 1992 in the Northern Hemisphere, including Asia, North America, and Europe. Considerable variation in the number of outbreaks occurred among years, with a tendency for outbreaks to be synchronous. Years of numerous outbreaks include 1948, 1956, 1964...

1. Introduction. Constructions and Pragmatics What do constructional approaches to grammar have to contribute to linguistic pragmatics? A careful answer to this question would require prior specification of which approaches should properly be called 'constructional' and also what exactly is intended by 'linguistic pragmatics'. Conscientiously discharging these preparatory obligations could requ...

Previous work has shown that Dutch listeners use prosodic information in the speech signal to optimise morphological processing: Listeners are sensitive to prosodic differences between a noun stem realised in isolation and a noun stem realised as part of a plural form (in which the stem is followed by an unstressed syllable). The present study, employing a lexical decision task, provides an add...

This document provides technical details of the model of visual object classification and attention presented in our paper A perceptually grounded model of the singular-plural distinction.