The Kerr effect on vesicle-like droplets is described. We give a simple derivation of the Kerr constant for a dielectric fluid droplet immersed in another fluid, assuming that the droplet in an electric field becomes a prolate ellipsoid. The Kerr constant is evaluated also for a droplet covered by a membrane of finite thickness. The latter result differs significantly from the result by E. van ...

A FORTRAN IV algorithm is given for determining the hydrodynamic parameters of a macromolecule in solution for any specified value ofthe two axial ratios (a/b, D/c) ofthe equivalent triaxial ellipsoid model of semi-axes a > b > c for its gross conformafion. Ellipsoid model Axial ratios Elliptic integrals Myoglobin I . I N T R O D U C T I O N The ellipsoid of revolution (i.e. an ellipsoid with t...

     The model fluids containing hard ellipses (HEs) and Gay-Berne (GB) particles where their center is moving in one dimension and confined between two parallel walls with different interactions are investigated using Monte Carlo simulation, NVT ensemble. The dependency of fluid pressure with respect to the wall distances is studied. The oscillatory behaviors are seen in this quantity against ...

The Kerr effect on vesicle-likedroplets (vesicles, cells or emulsion droplets) is described. Wegive a derivation of the Kerr constant for a dielectric fluiddroplet immersed in another fluid, assuming that the droplet in aweak electric field becomes a prolate ellipsoid. The Kerr constantis evaluated also for a droplet covered by a membrane of nonzerothickness. Comparing the theory with the exper...

In many real-life situations, we do not know the probability distribution of measurement errors but only upper bounds on these errors. In such situations, once we know the measurement results, we can only conclude that the actual (unknown) values of a quantity belongs to some interval. Based on this interval uncertainty, we want to find the range of possible values of a desired function of the ...