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Design as a means of exploring the emotional component of scent
This paper demonstrates how industrial designers can generate engaging solutions by applying new technology to the area of scent-delivery through the use of practice-based research. It discusses works by Jason Morenikeji, Nick Rhodes and other designers contrasting these with developments in the scent and nano-technology industries. The paper also presents a series of designs by industrial designer Ben Hughes, namely âFontenay aux Roses.â It also includes a collection of wearable, smart interactive scent delivery devices designed for Jenny Tillotsonâs e-Scent research project at CSM.
'Fontenay aux Roses 1' is a wearable bag-type device that houses a battery and pump unit to deliver three types of scent, controllable by the user. The prototype was made by award-winning bag designer Ann Chui.
Fontenay is a brooch -type device that attaches to a garment with a magnetic snap-fastening. Three different snap-on covers show how the device might be customised by the user, branded by the scent manufacturer, or added to by a third-party. In both its design and its co-engineering by Murray Tidmarsh and Ben Hughes, it is an exploration of the use of rapid-manufacturing technology for this type of object.
This work has evolved to incorporate devices for insect repellent under the title âE.Mosâ, two of which Ben Hughes designed and created the prototype for
Four loop MSbar mass anomalous dimension in the Gross-Neveu model
We compute the four loop term of the mass anomalous dimension in the two
dimensional Gross-Neveu model in the MSbar scheme. The absence of
multiplicative renormalizability which results when using dimensional
regularization means that the effect of the evanescent operator, which first
appears at three loops in the 4-point Green's function, has to be properly
treated in the construction of the renormalization group function. We repeat
the calculation of the three loop MSbar beta-function and construct the
beta-function of the evanescent operator coupling which corrects earlier
computations.Comment: 20 latex pages, 7 figure
Capturing the essence of folding and functions of biomolecules using Coarse-Grained Models
The distances over which biological molecules and their complexes can
function range from a few nanometres, in the case of folded structures, to
millimetres, for example during chromosome organization. Describing phenomena
that cover such diverse length, and also time scales, requires models that
capture the underlying physics for the particular length scale of interest.
Theoretical ideas, in particular, concepts from polymer physics, have guided
the development of coarse-grained models to study folding of DNA, RNA, and
proteins. More recently, such models and their variants have been applied to
the functions of biological nanomachines. Simulations using coarse-grained
models are now poised to address a wide range of problems in biology.Comment: 37 pages, 8 figure
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