Using a synthetic oligopeptide, n-FKFEFKFEFKFE-c (KFE12), representative of a class of peptides that can undergo self-assembly into a three-dimensional matrix biomaterial, we show that the self-assembly occurs when solution conditions reduce intermolecular electrical double-layer repulsion below van der Waals attraction in accord with DLVO theory. This theory predicts that a critical coagulatio...

The role of lactic acid was evaluated for attraction of Culex nigripalpus, Culex quinquefasciatus, Culex tarsalis, and Aedes aegypti in the laboratory using a dual-port olfactometer. When lactic acid was combined with chicken odor, attraction was increased for Cx. quinquefasciatus compared to chicken odor alone but not for Cx. nigripalpus, Cx. tarsalis, and Ae. aegypti. Lactic acid combined wit...

A study of the intermolecular potential-energy surface ~IPS! and the intermolecular states of the perprotonated and perdeuterated benzene–He complex is reported. From a fit to ab initio data computed within the coupled cluster singles and doubles including connected triples model for 280 interaction geometries, an analytic IPS including twoto four-body atom–atom terms is obtained. This IPS, and...

A cationic bis-imidazolium-based amphiphile was used to form thermoreversible nanostructured supramolecular hydrogels incorporating neutral and cationic drugs for the topical treatment of rosacea. The concentration of the gelator and the type and concentration of the drug incorporated were found to be factors that strongly influenced the gelling temperature, gel-formation period, and overall st...

Although it is widely accepted that the local structure of liquid water has tetrahedral arrangements of molecules ordered by hydrogen bonds, the mechanism by which water molecules switch hydrogen-bonded partners remains unclear. In this mechanism, the role of nonhydrogen-bonded configurations (NHBs) between adjacent molecules is of particular importance. A molecule may switch hydrogen-bonding p...

Deamination of native rat tail collagen followed by treatment with 1,2-cyclohexanedione removes the positive charge from the side chains of the lysine and hydroxylysine residues and blocks approximately 7 0 % of the positively charged side chains of the arginine residues. When such specimens are examined in the electron microscope after negative staining with 2 % potassium phosphotungstate at p...

Using molecular dynamics simulations, we investigated an integrated bio-nano interface consisting of a β-sheet protein stacked onto graphene. We found that the stacking assembly of the model protein on graphene could be controlled by water molecules. The interlayer water filled within interstices of the bio-nano interface could suppress the molecular vibration of surface groups on protein, and ...

Attraction to physical activity is important to an individual's intrinsic motivation to engage in play, games and sports. While there are instruments designed to measure attraction to physical activity in middle childhood years, the lack of authentic measures in young children has impeded research in this area. In this study we sought to address the validity of a scale to tap young children's a...

In this paper we show that there is an analytic and computable dynamical system with a hyperbolic sink s such that the basin of attraction of s is not computable. As a consequence, the problem of determining basins of attraction for analytic hyperbolic systems is not, in general, algorithmically solvable. 1 Summary of the paper Dynamical systems are fascinating mathematical objects. They can be...

POWERS, J. B., R. B. FIELDS AND S. S. WINANS. O~wtory and vomeronasal system participation in male hamsters' attraction to ./bmc:/e vaginal secrethms. PHYSIOL. BEHAV. 22(I) 77--84, 1979.~The effects of olfactory (OLF) vomeronasal (VN), or combined deafferentations of male hamsters on their attraction to female hamster vaginal secretions (FHVS) were determined using 2 different attraction tests....