Slippery Liquid Infused Porous Surfaces (SLIPS) are a relatively new and promising development in the surface engineering world. Bio-inspired with superior omniphobicity robustness, SLIPS have enjoyed success several scientific applications, spanning multiple industries from marine environment to medical field. Inorganic fouling is one such challenge managed overcome by disrupting both depositi...

Slips and falls can happen in any part of the flat or home, but is more common on stairs and in the kitchens and bathrooms. The present paper investigates the friction between rubber and leather footwear on one side and different flooring materials on the other side. Ceramics, Concrete and Granite tiles are tested. Both dry and wet contamination agents are considered. The ultimate results are s...

The use of carrier-phase measurements significantly increases the accuracy solutions when using navigation receivers. One problems in is discontinuities (cycle slips) measurements. existing algorithms detection and compensation cycle slips a singlefrequency receiver either require additional information (for example, Doppler measurements), or operate only differential mode, can detect large sli...

A system of two coplanar superconducting films seamlessly connected by a bridge is studied. We observe two distinct resistive transitions as the temperature is reduced. The first one, occurring in the films, shows some properties of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition. The second apparent transition (which is in fact a crossover) is related to freezing out of thermally activate...

The development of paper-based information technologies in the early modern period is a field of enquiry that has lately benefited from extensive studies by intellectual historians and historians of science. How scholars coped with ever-increasing amounts of empirical knowledge presented in print and manuscript – leading to the so-called early modern “information overload” – is now being increa...

Plasmodium falciparum is a protozoan parasite that, along with its close relatives, causes malaria in humans. The organism is remarkably adaptable, quickly evolving resistance to the measures humans have deployed against it; it took the parasite only a decade to evolve resistance to chloroquine, a preventative agent first introduced in 1947. Newer drugs have fared no better. A major push is cur...

Pinning and depinning of fronts bounding spatially localized structures in the forced complex Ginzburg-Landau equation describing the 1:1 resonance is studied in one spatial dimension, focusing on regimes in which the structure grows via roll insertion instead of roll nucleation at either edge. The motion of the fronts is nonlocal but can be analyzed quantitatively near the depinning transition.

In response to recent experiments by the Berkeley group, we construct a model of superflow through an array of nanosize apertures that incorporates two basic ingredients: (1) disorder associated with each aperture having its own random critical velocity, and (2) effective interaperture coupling, mediated through the bulk superfluid. As the disorder becomes weak there is a transition from a regi...