On the preceding pages it was shown that the movement of molecules can produce physical phenomena. Thus sound comes about through the oscillation of the molecules in solid, liquid or gaseous objects, and it continues in these substances until it reaches our ear. And heat and light are nothing other than an extremely rapid oscillation of molecules that continues through the world ether until it ...

The fact that human readers can learn about the physical world from textual descriptions leads to a number of interesting questions about the connections between our conceptual understanding of the physical world and how it is reflected in natural language. This thesis investigates some forms in which information about physical phenomena is typically expressed in natural language and how this k...

I will present two experimental studies that deal with interfacial processes in bacteria. The adhesion of individual bacterial cells to a surface is a complex process, which involves the cell membrane, but is also mediated by surface appendages such as pili and flagella. We have used a microfluidic approach to study the adhesion of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to abiotic surfaces as a function of she...

Many results in logic, in particular in computability theory and in model theory, express properties of sets of functions and sets of relations, such as the set of the polynomial functions, that of the computable functions, that of the relations definable by a formula in predicate logic, ... In particular, a part of the theory aims at constructing languages to express the functions and the rela...

Simulation of natural phenomena using CA-models attracts more and more attention of researchers and enters into practical use. However, the methodology of constructing CA-models for simulating certain natural process as well as analyzing simulation results, are not yet completely developed. The reason lays in a high level of CA-models abstraction which causes difficulties in establishing corres...

3 If the same standard state is assumed for the solution in both phases S would be unity, but it is more convenient to assume different standard states so that as long as the properties of the two phases remain constant S will be constant but as a rule its value will not be unity. 4 The partition coefficient includes only the ions K+ and Cl-. It would not be constant if it included the undissoc...