Quantitative characterization of bacterial growth has gathered substantial attention since Monod’s pioneering study. Theoretical and experimental work has uncovered several laws for describing the log growth phase, in which the number of cells grows exponentially. However, microorganism growth also exhibits lag, stationary, and death phases under starvation conditions, in which cell growth is h...

The growth of Salmonella typhimurium (ATCC 14028) on the surface of autoclaved ground chicken breast and thigh burgers incubated at constant temperatures from 8 to 48 degrees C in 2 degrees C increments was investigated and modeled. Growth curves at each temperature were fit to a two-phase linear primary model to determine lag time (lambda) and specific growth rate (mu). Growth of S. typhimuriu...

The formation of nanoscale amyloid fibrils from normally soluble peptides and proteins is a common form of self-assembly phenomenon that has fundamental connections with biological functions and human diseases. The kinetics of this process has been widely studied and exhibits on a macroscopic level three characteristic stages: a lag phase, a growth phase and a final plateau regime. The question...

This paper presents analytical models, as well as numerical and experimental verification of intrinsic dissipation due to thermoelastic loss in tuning-fork resonator. The thermoelastic analytical governing equations are created for resonator vibrating at drive-mode and sense-mode, and thermoelastic vibration field quantities are deduced. Moreover, the theoretical values are verified that coinci...

Accurate quantum-mechanical simulations have significantly extended the current picture of the Earth and hold a great promise for the future of the Earth and planetary sciences. Studies of phase transitions, equations of state, elasticity and thermoelastic properties of the Earth-forming minerals are essential to geophysics. This chapter gives a basic background of the physics of the deep Earth...

We determine the intrinsic phase lag of the GOLF data for the solar p-mode velocity deduced either from one of the narrow band photometers working alternatively on blue and red wing of the sodium lines. The timing of the “blue wing” velocity coming from the current GOLF data is given in respect to the ground-based observations. The phase lag for the “blue” velocity is 6 s in advance relatively ...

We investigate a three-dimensional mathematical thermoelastic scattering problem from an open surface which will be referred to as a screen. Under the assumption of the local "nite energy of the uni"ed thermoelastic scattered "eld, we give a weak model on the appropriate Sobolev spaces and derive equivalent integral equations of the "rst kind for the jump of some trace operators on the open sur...