The fluidity of liquid metals, like that of simple nonmetallic liquids, is a linear function of the ratio of unoccupied volume to intrinsic volume over long ranges as expressed by the equation varphi = B[(V/V(0)) - 1]. Values of V(0) obtained by extrapolating to varphi = 0 agree well with molal volumes of compact crystals at 20 degrees C calculated from densities.Values of the ratio varphi/[(V/...

Recent efforts to broaden understanding of the molecular mechanisms of membrane receptors in signal transduction make use of rate-equilibrium free-energy relationships (REFERs), previously applied to chemical reactions, enzyme kinetics, and protein folding. For oligomeric membrane receptors, we distinguish between a), the Leffler parameter alpha(L), to characterize the global transition state f...

Information technology enabled exchanges in electronic markets have significant implications for buyer–supplier relaVivek Choudhury was the accepting senior editor for this paper. tionships. Building on studies that emphasize the role of intangible assets in interorganizational relationships, this study argues that buyers are less likely to use reverse auctions for supplier relationships involv...

‎Let $\Omega_X$ be a bounded‎, ‎circular and strictly convex domain in a complex Banach space $X$‎, ‎and $\mathcal{H}(\Omega_X)$ be the space of all holomorphic functions from $\Omega_X$ to $\mathbb{C}$‎. ‎The growth space $\mathcal{A}^\nu(\Omega_X)$ consists of all $f\in\mathcal{H}(\Omega_X)$‎ ‎such that $$|f(x)|\leqslant C \nu(r_{\Omega_X}(x)),\quad x\in \Omega_X,$$‎ ‎for some constant $C>0$‎...

We show that a qubit can be used to substitute for a classical analog system requiring an arbitrarily large number of classical bits to represent digitally. Let a physical system S interact locally with a classical field varphi(x) as S travels directly from point A to point B. Our task is to use S to answer a simple yes/no question about varphi(x). If S is a qubit, the task can be done perfectl...

The Induced Minor Containment problem takes as input two graphs G and H, and asks whether G has H as an induced minor. We show that this problem is fixed parameter tractable in |VH | if G belongs to any nontrivial minor-closed graph class and H is a planar graph. For a fixed graph H, the H-Contractibility problem is to decide whether a graph can be contracted to H. The computational complexity ...

We study by molecular dynamics the interplay between arrest and crystallization in hard spheres. For state points in the plane of volume fraction (0.54 <or= varphi <or= 0.63) and polydispersity (0 <or= s <or= 0.085), we delineate states that spontaneously crystallize from those that do not. For noncrystallizing (or precrystallization) samples we find isodiffusivity lines consistent with an idea...