nucleate pool boiling heat transfer coefficient have been experimentally measured on a horizontal rod heater for various liquid binary mixtures. measurements are based on more than three hundred data points on a wide range of concentrations and heat fluxes. in this investigation, it has been confirmed that the heat transfer coefficient in boiling solutions are regularly less than those in pure ...

A promising usage of Flash SSDs in a DBMS is to use it to extend the main memory buffer pool by caching in the SSD selected pages that are evicted from the buffer pool. These schemes have been shown to produce big performance gains in the steady state. Simple methods for using the SSD buffer pool throw away the data in the SSD when the system is restarted (either when recovering from a crash or...

We describe efficient methods for screening clone libraries, based on pooling schemes that we call "random k-sets designs." In these designs, the pools in which any clone occurs are equally likely to be any possible selection of k from the v pools. The values of k and v can be chosen to optimize desirable properties. Random k-sets designs have substantial advantages over alternative pooling sch...

Declines in biodiversity have prompted concern over the consequences of species loss for the goods and services provided by natural ecosystems. However, relatively few studies have evaluated the functional consequences of realistic, nonrandom changes in biodiversity. Instead, most designs have used randomly selected assemblages from a local species pool to construct diversity gradients. It is t...

The relationship between certain types of highdimensional neural networks and low-dimensional prototypical equations (neuromodules) is investigated. The high-dimensional systems consist of finitely many pools containing identical, dissipative and nonlinear single-units operating in discrete time. Under the assumption of random connections inside and between pools, the system can be reduced to a...

We study security issuers’ decisions on whether to pool assets when facing counterparties endowed with market power, as is common in over-the-counter markets. Our analysis reveals how buyers’ power may render the pooling of suboptimal — both privately and socially particular, potential gains from trade are large. Pooling then reduces elasticity volume relevant part payoff distribution, exacerba...

Random key graphs represent topologies of secure wireless sensor networks that apply the seminal Eschenauer– Gligor random key predistribution scheme to secure communication between sensors. These graphs have received much attention and also been used in diverse application areas beyond secure sensor networks; e.g., cryptanalysis, social networks, and recommender systems. Formally, a random key...

The aim of this study was to develop high-affinity single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) aptamers that can selectively recognize the protein Ras and can be used as preventive and therapeutic agents for restenosis occurring after coronary surgery or angioplasty. For this purpose, we used the systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment (SELEX) technique, also known as in vitro selection. Usin...

We consider the continuous-time random walk of a particle in a two-dimensional self-affine quenched random potential of Hurst exponent H>0 . The corresponding master equation is studied via the strong disorder renormalization procedure introduced in Monthus and Garel [J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 41, 255002 (2008)]. We present numerical results on the statistics of the equilibrium time t(eq) over t...