as host to some of the world’s biggest emergencies and protracted crises, the eastern mediterranean region carries the largest burden of displaced populations globally. out of 58 million displaced persons worldwide, almost 30 million (52%) come from the region. syria is currently the world’s biggest producer of refugees and internally displaced persons, with more than 40% of the population now ...

The internally functionalized dendrimers are novel polymers that differ from conventional dendrimers by having additional functional units which do not branch out further. We investigate the dynamics of these structures with the inclusion of local semiflexibility and analyze their eigenmodes. The functionalized units clearly manifest themselves leading to a group of eigenvalues which are not pr...

A graph is a minor of another if the first can be obtained from a subgraph of the second by contracting edges. A graph G is internally 4-connected if it is simple, 3-connected, has at least five vertices, and if for every partition (A, B) of the edge-set of G, either |A| ≤ 3, or |B| ≤ 3, or at least four vertices of G are incident with an edge in A and an edge in B. We prove that if H and G are...

We generalize the notion of a fat subset of a regular cardinal κ to a fat subset of Pκ(X), where κ ⊆ X. Suppose μ < κ, μ<μ = μ, and κ is supercompact. Then there is a generic extension in which κ = μ++, and for all regular λ ≥ μ++, there are stationarily many N in [H(λ)]μ which are internally club but not internally approachable. Suppose μ is an infinite cardinal. A set N is internally approach...

Gramicidin channels are archetypal molecular subjects for solid-state NMR studies and investigations of single-channel or cation conductance. Until now, the transitions between on and off conductance states have been thought, based on multichannel studies, to represent monomer <--> dimer reactions. Here we use a single-molecule deposition method (vesicle fusion to a planar bilayer) to show that...