The kinetics of hemoglobin S gelation are critical in sickle disease because microvascular obstruction can be avoided if red blood cells pass these vessels during the delay time, before polymerization and gelation occur in sufficient degree to rigidify the cells. Kinetics, including the delay time and the closely related exponential progress rate, are highly sensitive to hemoglobin concentratio...

We have shown in [1] that a neutrino magnetic moment form factor µ ν (q 2) could be considerably amplified at low momentum transfer, q 2 ≤ m 2 N , at the cost of introducing an extra light neutral fermion N with mass m N and nonzero magnetic moment. It was assumed that the magnetic moment of N would originate in a renormalizable way at a heavy scale M. While the enhancement of the neutrino magn...

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have been performed to investigate the shear dynamics of hydration layers of the thickness of D=0.61-2.44 nm confined between two mica surfaces. Emphases are placed on the external shear response and internal relaxation properties of aqueous films. For D=0.92-2.44 nm liquid phase, the shear responses are fluidic and similar to those observed in surface force ...

The subband structure in thin silicon films under stress is rigorously analyzed. Calculations of the effective masses in the subbands show a dependence on shear strain and film thickness simultaneously. Both, the effective masses and the subband splitting determine the transport properties in silicon films. A decrease of the transport effective mass controlled by the shear strain component lead...

A rigorous analysis of the subband structure in thin silicon films under stress is performed. Calculated subband effective masses are shown to depend on shear strain and thickness simultaneously. The effective masses and the subband splitting determine transport in silicon films. Decrease of the transport effective mass controlled by the shear strain component guarantees mobility enhancement ev...