The respective roles of local and nonlocal interactions in the thermodynamic cooperativity of proteins are investigated using continuum (off-lattice) native-centric Gō-like models with a coarse-grained Ca chain representation. We study a series of models in which the (local) bondand torsion-angle terms have different strengths relative to the (nonlocal) pairwise contact energy terms. Conformati...

The aqueous mixtures of light gas molecules under low-temperature and high-pressure conditions are candidates to form gas hydrate clathrates. The formation of gas hydrate may lead to various problems and extra charges in natural gas production and processing. The presence of hydrate crystals forming a stable solid phase can potentially block the wells, pipes, and process facilities. To avoid su...

An ion imprinted polymer (IIP) based on aniline-formaldehyde was synthesized and then modified with extra aniline as cross-linker in the presence and absence of Sr (II) as the template to produce ion imprinted poly(aniline-formaldehyde) (IIPAF) and non imprinted poly(aniline-formaldehyde) (NIPAF). The sorbent was characterized by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy and was used for solid ph...

This paper discusses thermodynamic models of air inside pneumatic actuator chambers. In servo-pneumatics common practice, these models are simplified by neglecting the temperature dynamics. Classical models in the literature assume the temperature inside the pneumatic chamber either to be constant or to follow a polytropic law. Furthermore, the mixing process of air entering the chamber and hea...

Transcriptional control is central to many cellular processes, and, consequently, much effort has been devoted to understanding its underlying mechanisms. The organization of nucleosomes along promoter regions is important for this process, since most transcription factors cannot bind nucleosomal sequences and thus compete with nucleosomes for DNA access. This competition is governed by the rel...