During sociosexual encounters, different brain mechanisms interact to orchestrate information about the salience of external stimuli along with the current physiological and environmental conditions in order to process these in an optimal manner. One candidate neural system involves the potential interplay between the medial preoptic nucleus (POM) and mesolimbic reward circuitry. We present her...

This study investigates the numerical solution of viscoelastic flows using two contrasting high-order finite volume schemes. We extend our earlier work for Poiseuille flow in a planar channel and the single equation form of the extended pom-pom (SXPP) model [1], to determine steady-state solutions for planar 4:1 sharp contraction flows. The numerical techniques employed are time-stepping algori...

We numerically investigate the stability problem of the injection molding process. It was indicated by Bulters and Schepens Bulters and Schepens 2000 that surface defects of injection molded products may be attributed to a flow instability near the free surface during the filling stage of the mold. We examine the stability of this flow using the extended Pom–Pom constitutive equations. The mode...

This study investigates the numerical solution of viscoelastic flows using two contrasting high-order finite volume schemes. We extend our earlier work for Poiseuille flow in a planar channel and the single equation form of the extended pom-pom (SXPP) model [1], to determine steady-state solutions for planar 4:1 sharp contraction flows. The numerical techniques employed are time-stepping algori...

A wetting and drying scheme (WDS) is developed to incorporate into a three-dimensional sigmacoordinate coastal ocean model (POM; Blumberg and Mellor, 1983) with proposing an extended logarithmic profile within and above bed boundary layers to accurately simulate 3D hydrodynamics in extremely shallow coastal seas. While the WDS is simplistically formulated, it can selectively retain the computat...

We combine classical empirical potentials and density functional theory (DFT) calculations to characterize the catalyst/electrode interface of a promising device for artificial photosynthesis. This system consists of inorganic Ru-polyoxometalate (Ru-POM) molecules that are supported by a graphitic substrate functionalized with organic dendrimers. The experimental atomic-scale characterization o...

Recently, there has been much concern over the dumbing down of production and operations management (POM) courses in response to the repudiation of the theory-heavy operations research (OR) approach that became dominant during the 1970s. However, although almost everyone agrees that a new POM framework is needed, there is as yet little agreement on what it should be like. As a result, there is ...

Sixty percent of the world ocean by area is contained in oligotrophic gyres [Longhurst A (1995) Prog Oceanog 36:77-16], the biomass of which is dominated by picophytoplankton, including cyanobacteria and picoeukaryotic algae, as well as picoheterotrophs. Despite their recognized importance in carbon cycling in the surface ocean, the role of small cells and their detrital remains in the transfer...

A series of polyoxymethylene (POM)/hydroxyapatite (HAp) nanocomposites for long-term bone implants were prepared by melt processing using POM with different molecular weight. Bioactivity was examined by incubating the samples in simulated body fluid. Moreover, in vitro stability, wettability, thermal stability, and formaldehyde release process were investigated. Results of in vitro investigatio...