Most of us have been shocked after walking across a carpet and touching a metal doorknob. The build-up of charge—“static” electricity—on the surface of some nonconductors because of friction is called triboelectricity. We are unaware of the build-up of charge on our bodies as wewalk and only notice it upon discharge when it briefly stimulates our pain-sensing neurons; it is essentially an epiph...

Current legislation in European countries, as well as in other parts of the world, is putting stricter limits on pollutant emissions from road vehicles. This issue, in conjunction with the increase awareness of consumer for the environmental problems, will require the development of new clean propulsion systems in disruption with the current mobility solutions based on internal combustion engin...

INTRODUCTION Surface tension is an inherently dominant force in the microscale. Electrocapillarity, the modification of surface tension by applying an electric field, has received renewed attention because of its potential usefulness in microfluidics. Pollack et al. demonstrated a microactuator for rapid manipulation of discrete microdroplets by direct electric control of the surface tension. [...

Fragment Grammars (FG) are a computational framework for studying the related problems of linguistic productivity and reuse (O’Donnell, 2011; O’Donnell et al., 2009). They treat determining which structures should be computed on the fly and which should be retrieved from memory as an optimal Bayesian inference. Elsewhere, we show how the model correctly captures the adult patterns of productivi...

Wu et al. 2009 studied the asymptotic approximation of inverse moments for nonnegative independent random variables. Shen et al. 2011 extended the result of Wu et al. 2009 to the case of ρ-mixing random variables. In the paper, we will further study the asymptotic approximation of inverse moments for nonnegative ρ-mixing random variables, which improves the corresponding results of Wu et al. 20...

This paper investigates a special type of recurrent expressions, lexical bundles, defined as a sequence of three or more words that co-occur frequently in a particular register (Biber et al., 1999). Considering the importance of this group of multi-word sequences in academic prose, this study explores the forms and syntactic structures of three- and four-word bundles in English abstracts writte...

Neotropical freshwater stingrays (Batoidea: Potamotrygonidae) host a diversity of parasites, including some, like their hosts, that are marine-derived. Among the parasites of potamotrygonids, the cestode fauna is the most diverse, with multiple genera having been reported, including genera endemic to the freshwaters of the Neotropics and genera that have cosmopolitan distributions. Recent effor...

Red blood cells form face-to-face linear or branched structures, called as rouleaux, under static conditions or low shear rates in the presence of appropriate macromolecules (Baskurt et al. 2011a; Chien 1975; Merrill 1969; Neu and Meiselman 2007). This process is reversible, and cells can be dispersed individually when a disaggregating shear rate is applied to the cells (Baskurt et al. 2011b; L...