Bubbles can be trapped inside textured structures such as grooves, forming a superhydrophobic surface. A superhydrophobic surface has a large effective hydrodynamic slip length compared to a smooth hydrophobic surface and holds the promise of enhancing electrokinetic flows that find many interesting applications in microfluidics. However, recent theoretical studies suggested that electro-osmoti...

We may suspect that quantum mechanics and consciousness are related, but the details are not at all clear. In this paper, I suggest how the mind and brain might fit together intimately while still maintaining distinct identities. The connection is based on the correspondence of similar functions in both the mind and the quantum-mechanical brain. 1 The Mind-Brain Problem The problem of the relat...

Kaiser & Squires have proposed a technique for mapping the dark matter in galaxy clusters using the coherent weak distortion of background galaxy images caused by gravitational lensing. We investigate the effectiveness of this technique under controlled conditions by creating simulated CCD frames containing galaxies lensed by a model cluster, measuring the resulting galaxy shapes, and comparing...

The banking sector plays a crucial role in the economic growth of nation. purpose this study is to examine long-term association between banks’ performance and developing economy: India. used panel data 20 public banks for period 2009 2019. It applied Pedroni Kao test co-integration, vector error correction model (VECM) dynamic, fully-modified ordinary least squires OLS (FMOLS), dynamic (DOLS) ...

Abstract This paper is an exploration of the variety French-speaking cats on Twitter. Among many creative phenomena that internet has produced, animal-related language varieties, used by pets, have been explored as early 2000s, yet with a strong and almost exclusive focus English. I first describe shared repertoire lexical, semantic, phonographic, syntactic features cats, show how simultaneous ...

We model conservation agreements using contractual equilibrium, a concept introduced by Miller and Watson (2010) to model dynamic relationships with renegotiation. The setting takes the form of a repeated principal-agent problem, where the principal must pay to observe a noisy signal of the agent’s effort. Lacking a strong external enforcement system, the parties rely on self-enforcement for th...