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Mechanical tuning of the evaporation rate of liquid on crossed fibers
We investigate experimentally the drying of a small volume of perfectly
wetting liquid on two crossed fibers. We characterize the drying dynamics for
the three liquid morphologies that are encountered in this geometry: drop,
column and a mixed morphology, in which a drop and a column coexist. For each
morphology, we rationalize our findings with theoretical models that capture
the drying kinetics. We find that the evaporation rate depends significantly on
the liquid morphology and that the drying of liquid column is faster than the
evaporation of the drop and the mixed morphology for a given liquid volume.
Finally, we illustrate that shearing a network of fibers reduces the angle
between them, changes the morphology towards the column state, and so enhances
the drying rate of a volatile liquid deposited on it
PDB8 A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis of Second-Line Anti-Diabetes Treatments for Those with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Inadequately Controlled by Sulfonylurea Monotherapy
Objective Measurement of the Visual Aspect of Dry Sausage Slices by Image Analysis
The visual aspect of food is a problem very often neglected for different reasons; one being the difficulty of modelling vision. However, it has been shown that , on simple synthetic images, automatic sorting in the same manner as human vision is possible.
Distribution heterogeneity of spots within an image is one important parameter for its characterization. A new algorithm was tested over simple numerical pictures that gave good agreement with visual appreciation. Images of twenty dry sausage slices were analyzed and different factors corresponding to aspect structure were calculated. Principal component analyst:s based on these factors all owed discrimination between the different types of sausage. The results obtained when studying the meat part of the slices were well correlated with the visual aspect
Mechanism for the Singlet to Triplet Superconductivity Crossover in Quasi-One-Dimensional Organic Conductors
Superconductivity of quasi-one-dimensional organic conductors with a
quarter-filled band is investigated using the two-loop renormalization group
approach to the extended Hubbard model for which both the single electron
hopping t_{\perp} and the repulsive interaction V_{\perp} perpendicular to the
chains are included. For a four-patches Fermi surface with deviations to
perfect nesting, we calculate the response functions for the dominant
fluctuations and possible superconducting states. By increasing V_{\perp}, it
is shown that a d-wave (singlet) to f-wave (triplet) superconducting state
crossover occurs, and is followed by a vanishing spin gap. Furthermore, we
study the influence of a magnetic field through the Zeeman coupling, from which
a triplet superconducting state is found to emerge.Comment: 11 pages, 15 figures, published versio
Role of Interchain Hopping in the Magnetic Susceptibility of Quasi-One-Dimensional Electron Systems
The role of interchain hopping in quasi-one-dimensional (Q-1D) electron
systems is investigated by extending the Kadanoff-Wilson renormalization group
of one-dimensional (1D) systems to Q-1D systems. This scheme is applied to the
extended Hubbard model to calculate the temperature () dependence of the
magnetic susceptibility, . The calculation is performed by taking
into account not only the logarithmic Cooper and Peierls channels, but also the
non-logarithmic Landau and finite momentum Cooper channels, which give relevant
contributions to the uniform response at finite temperatures. It is shown that
the interchain hopping, , reduces at low temperatures,
while it enhances at high temperatures. This notable
dependence is ascribed to the fact that enhances the
antiferromagnetic spin fluctuation at low temperatures, while it suppresses the
1D fluctuation at high temperatures. The result is at variance with the
random-phase-approximation approach, which predicts an enhancement of by over the whole temperature range. The influence of both the
long-range repulsion and the nesting deviations on is further
investigated. We discuss the present results in connection with the data of
in the (TMTTF) and (TMTSF) series of Q-1D organic
conductors, and propose a theoretical prediction for the effect of pressure on
magnetic susceptibility.Comment: 17 pages, 19figure
Superconducting pairing and density-wave instabilities in quasi-one-dimensional conductors
Using a renormalization group approach, we determine the phase diagram of an
extended quasi-one-dimensional electron gas model that includes interchain
hopping, nesting deviations and both intrachain and interchain repulsive
interactions. d-wave superconductivity, which dominates over the
spin-density-wave (SDW) phase at large nesting deviations, becomes unstable to
the benefit of a triplet -wave phase for a weak repulsive interchain
backscattering term , despite the persistence of dominant SDW
correlations in the normal state. Antiferromagnetism becomes unstable against
the formation of a charge-density-wave state when exceeds some
critical value. While these features persist when both Umklapp processes and
interchain forward scattering () are taken into account, the effect
of alone is found to frustrate nearest-neighbor interchain - and
-wave pairing and instead favor next-nearest-neighbor interchain singlet or
triplet pairing. We argue that the close proximity of SDW and
charge-density-wave phases, singlet d-wave and triplet -wave superconducting
phases in the theoretical phase diagram provides a possible explanation for
recent puzzling experimental findings in the Bechgaard salts, including the
coexistence of SDW and charge-density-wave phases and the possibility of a
triplet pairing in the superconducting phase.Comment: 19 pages, 13 figure
Selective involvement of serum response factor in pressure-induced myogenic tone in resistance arteries
OBJECTIVE: In resistance arteries, diameter adjustment in response to pressure changes depends on the vascular cytoskeleton integrity. Serum response factor (SRF) is a dispensable transcription factor for cellular growth, but its role remains unknown in resistance arteries. We hypothesized that SRF is required for appropriate microvascular contraction. METHODS AND RESULTS: We used mice in which SRF was specifically deleted in smooth muscle or endothelial cells, and their control. Myogenic tone and pharmacological contraction was determined in resistance arteries. mRNA and protein expression were assessed by quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) and Western blot. Actin polymerization was determined by confocal microscopy. Stress-activated channel activity was measured by patch clamp. Myogenic tone developing in response to pressure was dramatically decreased by SRF deletion (5.9+/-2.3%) compared with control (16.3+/-3.2%). This defect was accompanied by decreases in actin polymerization, filamin A, myosin light chain kinase and myosin light chain expression level, and stress-activated channel activity and sensitivity in response to pressure. Contractions induced by phenylephrine or U46619 were not modified, despite a higher sensitivity to p38 blockade; this highlights a compensatory pathway, allowing normal receptor-dependent contraction. CONCLUSIONS: This study shows for the first time that SRF has a major part to play in the control of local blood flow via its central role in pressure-induced myogenic tone in resistance arteries
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