The effect of temperature on the fluorescence properties of l,8-diphenyl-l,3,5,7-octatetraene (DPO) in polyvinyl alcohol) film (PVA) was investigated in the range from 295 to 428 K. Upon heating above 353 K, the quantum yield of D P O increases rapidly. This effect is irreversible, similarly as the optical density in the long wavelength absorption band (320-440 nm). It has its origin in the cis...

Transactional graph transformation systems (t-gtss) have been recently proposed as a mild extension of the standard dpo approach to graph transformation, equipping it with a suitable notion of atomic execution for computations. A typing mechanism induces a distinction between stable and unstable items, and a transaction is defined as a shift-equivalence class of computations such that the start...

Adaptable user interfaces (UI) have shown a great variety of advantages in human computer interaction compared to classic UI designs. We show how adaptable UIs can be built by introducing coloured Petri nets to connect the UI’s physical representation with the system to be controlled. UI development benefits from formal modelling approaches regarding the derived close integration of creation, e...

In a recent paper, mimicking Winskel’s construction for Petri nets, a concurrent semantics for (double-pushout) DPO graph grammars has been provided by showing that each graph grammar can be unfolded into an acyclic branching structure, that is itself a (nondeterministic occurrence) graph grammar describing all the possible computations of the original grammar. This paper faces the problem of p...

In a recent paper, mimicking Winskel's construction for Petri nets, a concurrent semantics for (double-pushout) DPO graph grammars has been provided by showing that each graph grammar can be unfolded into an acyclic branching structure, that is itself a (nondeterministic occurrence) graph grammar describing all the possible computations of the original grammar. This paper faces the problem of p...

We demonstrated the effect of nortriptyline, a tricyclic antidepressant drug and serotonin reuptake inhibitor, on voltage-dependent K+ (Kv) channels in freshly isolated rabbit coronary arterial smooth muscle cells using a whole-cell patch clamp technique. Nortriptyline inhibited Kv currents in a concentration-dependent manner, with an apparent IC50 value of 2.86±0.52 µM and a Hill coefficient o...

Dual-polarization oscillations (DPO) on different transitions have been observed for the first time in a mirror-coated thin-slice Nd:GdVO(4) laser possessing a large fluorescence anisotropy with laser-diode (LD) pumping. Oscillation spectra, input-output characteristics, pump-dependent pattern formations and noise power spectra are studied experimentally. Simultaneous oscillations of orthogonal...

effect of temperature on the duration of post ovulated oocyte quality maintenance in abdominal cavity of female rainbow trout, oncorhynchus mykiss, was assessed to determine suitable time of stripping. egg quality measurement was done through assessing the eying and hatching rates of eggs. regarding the best temperature range reported for salmonid brood fish in breeding season(3-10?c)the study ...

abstract the muskingum method is frequently used to route floods in hydrology. however, application of the model is still difficult because of the parameter estimation’s. recently, some of heuristic methods have been used in order to estimate the nonlinear muskingum model. this paper presents a efficient heuristic algorithm, simulated annealing, which has been used to estimate the three paramet...