The uniform box product was introduced by Scott Williams in 2001, but very little was done with it until the recent (2010 and 2012) [B1], [H1] dissertations of Jocelyn Bell and Jeffrey Hankins. Their results had to do with two questions that Williams posed a decade earlier: whether the uniform box product of compact spaces is normal, and whether it is paracompact. Hankins answered the latter qu...

Given the prevalence of the use of rhetorical relations in the generation of text (Itovy, 1989; Moore and Paris, 1988; Scott and Souza, 1990), it is surprising how little work has actually been done on the grammatical realization of these relations. Most systems, based on Mann and Thompson's formulation of Rhetorical Structure Theory (Mann and Thompson, 1988), have adopted simplified solutions ...

In this paper, the effects of different aluminum to silicon ratios in silicate chains of calcium silicate hydrates (C-S-H) are evaluated on the diffusion coefficient of chloride ions by molecular dynamics method. Tobermorite is a crystalline phase that is used for studying C-S-H properties in nano scale, because of its analogous chemical composition to C-S-H. Aluminum incorporation in C-S-H and...

Background & Objective: Persister cells are defined as a subpopulation of bacteria that are capable of reducing their metabolism and switching to dormancy in stress conditions. Persister cells formation has been attributed to numerous mechanisms, including stringent response and Toxin-Antitoxin (TA) systems. This study aimed to investigate the hypothetical role of TA systems in...

An exact meet in a lattice is a special type of infimum characterized by, inter alia, distributing over finite joins. In frames, the requirement that a meet is preserved by all frame homomorphisms makes for a slightly stronger property. In this paper these concepts are studied systematically, starting with general lattices and proceeding through general frames to spatial ones, and finally to an...

" By giving a name to something, you acquire power over it " (one of " Scott's Laws " proposed by the late Professor Bernard Scott, Sussex University)

Medical polymers, such as urinary catheters are widely used biomaterials. One of the main problem for using the urinary catheters is biofilm formation on their surface, when they are used in a long time in the body. Virulence and pathogenicity of Staphylococcus epidermidis is often enhanced when growing as a biofilm. Many techniques have been presented to reduce the biofilm formation by surface...

The equilibrium constant of adduct formation between some triorganotin chloride of the type R3SnCl (R=C6H5, p-CH3C6H4, n-CH3)CH2)3, C6H5-CH2 and Lewis bases Cl¯, Br¯, and I¯, were measured in 50% v/v ethanol-water solvent spectrophotometrically. The average equilibrium co...