Ninety-five F% mice were tested for 1 mo. on a variety of tests of emotionality and activity; and for a second month they were given a choice of tap water or 10% ethanol for fluid consumption. Forty-two measures from emotionality testing were correlated with 30 readings of alcohol consumption and 30 readings of water consumption. Absolute consumption of alcohol and the relationship between emot...

Self-motion of physical-chemical systems is a promising avenue for studying and developing mechanical functions with inanimate systems. In this paper, we investigate spontaneous motion of collections of solid macroscopic benzoquinone (BQ) disks at the air-water interface without intervention of chemical reactions. The BQ particles slowly dissolve and create heterogeneous interfacial tension fie...

We show that ripples on the surface of deep water which are driven parametrically by monochromatic vertical vibration represent ensembles of oscillating solitons, or quasiparticles, rather than waves. The horizontal mobility of oscillons determines the broadening of spectral lines and transitions from chaos to regular patterns. It is found that microscopic additions of proteins to water dramati...

This review is concerned with lipase catalyzed synthesis of sugar fatty acid esters in water immiscible organic solvents. Sugar esters are widely used nonionic and nontoxic biosurfactants. Certain sugar esters inhibit microbial growth and have other activities. Lipase mediated synthesis has important advantages over conventional chemical synthesis of sugar esters. Lipase catalyzed synthesis is ...

ARGOSS provides daily high-resolution weather and air quality forecasts for the province of Zeeland, the Netherlands. Zeeland covers an area of approximately 50x50 km with several water bodies, bordering the North Sea. To properly represent the land-water boundaries and to simulate the associated weather effects, a spatial resolution of 1 km is required. The abstract presents the operational AR...

We demonstrate that a wide variety of current-pulse shapes can be generated using a linear-transformerdriver (LTD) module that drives an internal water-insulated transmission line. The shapes are produced by varying the timing and initial charge voltage of each of the module’s cavities. The LTD-driven accelerator architecture outlined in [Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 10, 030401 (2007)] provides a...

We present a framework for representing scenarios with complex object interactions, in which a robot cannot directly interact with the object it wishes to control, but must instead do so via intermediate objects. For example, a robot learning to drive a car can only indirectly change its pose, by rotating the steering wheel. We formalize such complex interactions as chains of Markov decision pr...