We demonstrate how, with a purely empirical analysis of the irregular lightcurve data, one can extract a great deal of information about the stellar pulsation mechanism. An application to R Sct thus shows that the irregular lightcurve is the result of the nonlinear interaction of two highly nonadiabatic pulsation modes, namely a linearly unstable, low frequency mode, and the second mode that, a...

The a#cation of variational and Lagrangian thermodynamics is extended to problems of heat conduction with melting boundaries. The physical properties of the conducting material are considered to be temfierature dependent. In particular, the material Alumina (AhOJ representing a class of ceramic materials for which the effective conductivity ksff = kphonon + kphoton is subjected to above treatme...

There are great demands on the stability, expression yield and resistance to aggregation of antibody fragments. To untangle intrinsic domain effects from domain interactions, we present first a systematic evaluation of the isolated human immunoglobulin variable heavy (V(H)) and light (V(L)) germline family consensus domains and then a systematic series of V(H)-V(L) combinations in the scFv form...

We study the synchronization transition of Kuramoto oscillators in scale-free networks that are characterized by tunable local properties. Specifically, we perform a detailed finite size scaling analysis and inspect how the critical properties of the dynamics change when the clustering coefficient and the average shortest path length are varied. The results show that the onset of synchronizatio...

Hidden-variable models of quantum mechanics (QM) are complete descriptions of quantum phenomena. These models have been analyzed under conditions such as locality (Bell [1, 1964]) and non-contextuality (Kochen-Specker [20, 1967]). We give a uniform presentation of six underlying properties that can be asked of hidden-variable models and show all the relationships among them (as depicted in Figu...

We investigate the polarization modulation properties of a variable-delay polarization modulator (VPM). The VPM modulates polarization via a variable separation between a polarizing grid and a parallel mirror. We find that in the limit where the wavelength is much larger than the diameter of the metal wires that comprise the grid, the phase delay derived from the geometric separation between th...

--A state variable approach based on Hart’s [1] formulation for describing nonelastic deformation of crystalline solids is reviewed. It is shown to describe commonly observed deformation phenomena, such as creep. Presently, deformation phenomena such as inhomogeneous flow and those involving strong dislocation-solute interactions are not within the scope of this approach. Revue Phys. Appl. 23 (...