Quantum dynamics of bound states under spacetime fluctuations

Acknowledgments The authors are grateful for hospitality to Martin Land and other Organizers of the IARD 2016 Conference, where a related lecture was delivered by TO. This work was supported by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (TO) and by the EPSRC GG-Top Project and the Cruickshank Trust (CW).Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Quantum gravitational decoherence of light and matter

T.O. is most grateful for a Carnegie Scholarship. C.W. acknowledges support from the EPSRC GG-Top Project.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Spacetime foam induced collective bundling of intense fields

This research is supported by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (TO) and by the EPSRC GG-Top Project and the Cruickshank Trust (CW).Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Performance of immobilized bacterial alpha-amylases in methyltriethoxsilane / tetraetoxysilane sol-gel matrices

The large number of studies related to the field of biomolecules encapsulation in sol-gel hosts clearly indicates that this approach can be considered as a powerful alternative to traditional encapsulation procedures involving biopolymer hosts. In this study, α-amylase was immobilized, by using the sol-gel technique, in silica particles obtained from hydrolysis and polycondensation of tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) and a mixture of methyltriethoxysilane (MTES) and tetraethoxysilane. The influence of the pH and temperature of free and immobilized α-amylase were compared. It was shown that the relative activities of immobilized enzymes are higher than those of free enzymes over broader pH and temperature ranges. The Michaelis constant and the maximum rate of starch hydrolysis reaction were calculated by fitting the experimental data to the Michaelis-Menten equation. It was found that KM and Vmax values of the immobilized enzyme were smaller than those of the free enzyme

Quantum coherence, radiance, and resistance of gravitational systems

This work was supported by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (T.O.) and by the EPSRC GG-Top Project and the Cruickshank Trust (C.W.).Peer reviewedPublisher PD

La Germanie de Tacite entre \ue9rudition et croyances ethnographiques

Dans leur tentative de comprendre les cultures \ue9trang\ue8res et de cerner les similitudes et les divergences partielles entre le monde du \u2018soi\u2019 et celui de \u2018l\u2019autre\u2019, les ethnographes de l\u2019antiquit\ue9 avaient surtout recours, d\u2019une perspective universaliste et transculturelle, \ue0 la confrontation. Dans la Germania de Tacite, deux modes de penser sont particuli\ue8rement pertinents ici. Le premier est le proc\ue9d\ue9 que Tacite lui-m\ueame appelle \u2018interpretatio Romana\u2019 (ch. 43,3). Ceci consiste \ue0 postuler l\u2019existence d\u2019un certain nombre de divinit\ue9s universelles, qui changent simplement de nom lors du passage d\u2019une culture \ue0 l\u2019autre. Aussi on trouve chez Tacite la tentative d\u2019identifier les divinit\ue9s des Germains avec celle des Romains. En revanche, le deuxi\ue8me proc\ue9d\ue9 consiste en l\u2019opposition absolue des usages et des coutumes des peuples. A beaucoup d\u2019endroits dans la Germania on observe tr\ue8s distinctement le sch\ue9ma interpr\ue9tatif du \u2018mundus inversus\u2019, celui du \uab monde \ue0 l\u2019envers \ubb selon lequel la culture \ue9trang\ue8re finit par repr\ue9senter l\u2019inversion compl\ue8te, le retournement absolu des coutumes romaines contemporaines

Activity recognition in adaptive assistive systems using artificial neural networks

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