Introduction: The first glacial deformations of an extraterrestrial ice sheet have been discovered and documented at the Martian south polar cap in Mars Orbital Camera (MOC) images [1-4]. Within the south polar cap various structural deformational features have been found, including boudinage, folds, and faults [1-2] (Fig. 1). These features are also found in terrestrial glaciers [5-7]. Mars pr...

Occupying a privileged position in psychoanalytic thought, sublimation—the process which the sexual instinct becomes social—is notably undertheorized and notoriously criticized, to some extent as embodiment of methodology politics psychoanalysis. As way elucidating concept, this article addresses political critiques sublimation by situating it Freud's metapsychology elaborating its speculative ...

The bottom-up approach to replace existing devices by molecular-based systems is a subject that attracts permanently increasing interest. Molecular-based devices offer not only to miniaturize the device further, but also to benefit from advanced functionalities of deposited molecules. Furthermore, the molecules itself can be tailored to allow via their self-assembly the potential fabrication of...

The typical result of gas phase chemical investigations on a one-atom-at-a-time level are standard adsorption enthalpies (∆Hads) of chemical species on stationary chromatographic surfaces. The standard adsorption enthalpies are deduced from experimental results using either the model of linear gas chromatography assuming mobile adsorption [1] or Monte-Carlo based models [2]. The obtained enthal...

We have studied macroparticle generation from a tungsten carbide (WC) cathode used in a dc vacuum arc discharge. Despite a relatively high decomposition/melting point (~ 3100 K), there is an intensive generation of visible particles with sizes in the range 20-35 μm. Visual observations during the discharge and scanning electron microscopy of the cathode surface as well as of collected macropart...

The purpose of this paper is to conduct research into Atmospheric Sciences from the point of view of a computer scientist. Before getting started with any new concepts, a person must learn a " new language " of sorts. If the individual reading this paper right now is unfamiliar with statistics, radar, complex variables, signal theory, polarization, and other aspects of Atmospheric Sciences, the...

Layering is found and exploited in a variety of soft material systems, ranging from complex macromolecular self-assemblies to block copolymer and small-molecule liquid crystals. Because the control of layer structure is required for applications and characterization, and because defects reveal key features of the symmetries of layered phases, a variety of techniques have been developed for the ...

SiC single crystal is usually grown by sublimation (modified Lely method). There is a lotof remaining issues that should be solved. One is the technical problems of SiC single crystal growth process. And the other is the theoretical problem based on SiC physical properties. As the example of technical issues, in this paper, the example of design optimization for SiC sublimation growth is descri...

Three-dimensional quantitative structure--property relationship (3D-QSPR) models have been constructed using comparative molecular field analysis (CoMFA) to correlate the sublimation enthalpies at 298.15 K of a series of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) with their CoMFA-calculated physicochemical properties. Various alignment schemes, such as atom fit, as is, and inertial were employed in this ...

Femtosecond laser irradiation of assembled nanoprisms on a quartz substrate at their strong absorbing surface plasmon resonance frequency causes their propulsion from the substrate. SEM and AFM show that the particles fly while keeping their prismatic shape, but they decrease in size by an amount that can be calculated assuming atomic sublimation. Several mechanisms are mentioned, but the subli...