The study area is a part of the Sanandaj-Sirjan metamorphic belt comprising lowto high-grade regional and contact metamorphic rocks that are intruded by various plutonic bodies. Garnet crystals are abundant in pelitic schists, amphibole schists, migmatites, hornfelses and aplites. They are mostly almandinerich (XAlm>60) pyralspite garnets and show dodecahedron, trapezohedron and mixed (dodecahe...

Nanocrystals with high-index facets usually exhibit higher catalytic activities than those with only low-index facets. Trapezohedron-shaped (TS) In2O3 particles with exposed high-index {211} facets were successfully synthesized in an oleic acid (OA) and trioctylamine (TOA) system. It has been demonstrated that the gas sensing activity of TS In2O3 particles with exposed high-index {211} facets i...

the study area is a part of the sanandaj-sirjan metamorphic belt comprising low- to high-graderegional and contact metamorphic rocks that are intruded by various plutonic bodies. garnet crystals areabundant in pelitic schists, amphibole schists, migmatites, hornfelses and aplites. they are mostly almandinerich(xalm>60) pyralspite garnets and show dodecahedron, trapezohedron and mixed (dodecahed...

We start with a special polyhedron, the so-called ‘trapezohedron’ (see E. WEISSTEIN [11]). It is dual to an antiprism and can be generated as the intersection of two suitable congruent regular pyramids with regular n-gons as directing polygons (n > 2). Its faces are 2n congruent trapezoids (kites). We use this polyhedron to construct some generalisations of the Fulleroid-like mechanisms describ...

A supersoluble 40-residue type I antifreeze protein (AFP) was discovered in a righteye flounder, the barfin plaice (bp). Unlike all other AFPs characterized to date, bpAFP transitions from moderately-active to hyperactive with increasing concentration. At sub-mM concentrations, bpAFP bound to pyramidal planes of ice to shape it into a bi-pyramidal hexagonal trapezohedron, similarly to the other...

Compressed monodisperse emulsions in confined space exhibit highly ordered structures. The influence of the volume fraction and the confinement geometry on the organized structures is investigated and the mechanism by which structural transition occurs is studied. Based on the understanding of ordering behavior of compressed emulsions, a simple and high-throughput method to fabricate monodisper...

The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to an innovative use of literature in social science research where the literature may not only be seen as a secondary source of data (Strauss & Corbin 1990) but may also serve as the basis for theory building (Lewis & Grimes 1999; Saunders et. al. 1999). This will be exemplified by attempting to construct a theory of ‘IS business value’ from the l...

K inship among animals has important implications for their behaviour, as it determines their opportunities for nepotism and their risk of inbreeding (e.g. Hamilton 1963; Wade 1979; Trontti et al. 2005). The most accurate way to assess kinship is through complete knowledge of pedigrees (we use the term kinship to refer to categorical levels of coancestry, as would be derived from pedigree const...

This work presents new results about the instability of solitarywave solutions to a generalized fifth-order Korteweg-deVries equation of the form ut + uxxxxx + buxxx = (G(u, ux, uxx))x, where G(q, r, s) = Fq(q, r) − rFqr(q, r) − sFrr(q, r) for some F (q, r) which is homogeneous of degree p+ 1 for some p > 1. This model arises, for example, in the mathematical description of phenomena in water w...