Vibron-polaron critical localization in a finite size molecular nanowire

The small polaron theory is applied to describe the vibron dynamics in an adsorbed nanowire with a special emphasis onto finite size effects. It is shown that the finite size of the nanowire discriminates between side molecules and core molecules which experience a different dressing mechanism. Moreover, the inhomogeneous behavior of the polaron hopping constant is established and it is shown that the core hopping constant depends on the lattice size. However, the property of a lattice with translational invariance is recovered when the size of the nanowire is greater than a critical value. Finally, it is pointed out that these features yield the occurrence of high energy localized states which both the nature and the number are summarized in a phase diagram in terms of the relevant parameters of the problem (small polaron binding energy, temperature, lattice size).Comment: 17 pages, 10 figure

Molecular Genetic Typing of Staphylococcus aureus from Cows, Goats, Sheep, Rabbits and Chickens

End of project reportsS. aureus can also cause a number of infections in animals such as tick-associated pyaemia in lambs, staphylococcosis in rabbits, septicaemia, abscesses and chondronecrosis in chickens and pneumonia and osteomyelitis complex in turkeys. S. aureus is the most frequent cause of bovine mastitis, a disease that is of economic importance worldwide (Beck et al., 1992). Typically staphylococcal mastitis is chronic in nature, with subclinical mastitis being the most common form

A NOVEL METHOD TO DETERMINE STATISTICAL EFFECT MAGNITUDE USING SPM FOR GAIT ANALYSIS

The purpose of this research was to extend the typical SPM analysis of time varying human movement gait. We focused on the magnitude of statistical effect, with colour maps used to identify regions of high and low effect at the three-component vector level (3D joint kinematics and kinetics). Conceptually similar to a multivariate ANOVA, users can easily identify joints with the highest statistical effect, then probe the scalar components to determine which is most contributing to this effect. Though the analysis can be applied to any human movement biomechanics (i.e., running, walking, landing etc.), the example presented here is walking gait. Though only the kinetics from a single joint are presented, our goal is to build a user-friendly GUI capable of analysing the kinematics and kinetics of all joints and degrees of freedom in the kinematic and kinetic chain