Light-Scattering, Intrinsic Viscosity, and Gold Number Relationships for Some Dextran Fractions

Author Institution: Departments of Bacteriology and Chemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohi

Factors Affecting the Degradation Processes for Dextran

Author Institution: Departments of Bacteriology and Chemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus 1

Understanding Marine Mussel Adhesion

In addition to identifying the proteins that have a role in underwater adhesion by marine mussels, research efforts have focused on identifying the genes responsible for the adhesive proteins, environmental factors that may influence protein production, and strategies for producing natural adhesives similar to the native mussel adhesive proteins. The production-scale availability of recombinant mussel adhesive proteins will enable researchers to formulate adhesives that are water-impervious and ecologically safe and can bind materials ranging from glass, plastics, metals, and wood to materials, such as bone or teeth, biological organisms, and other chemicals or molecules. Unfortunately, as of yet scientists have been unable to duplicate the processes that marine mussels use to create adhesive structures. This study provides a background on adhesive proteins identified in the blue mussel, Mytilus edulis, and introduces our research interests and discusses the future for continued research related to mussel adhesion

The Physics of the B Factories

This work is on the Physics of the B Factories. Part A of this book contains a brief description of the SLAC and KEK B Factories as well as their detectors, BaBar and Belle, and data taking related issues. Part B discusses tools and methods used by the experiments in order to obtain results. The results themselves can be found in Part C

Measurement of the e^(+)e^(-)→ bb(macron) cross section between √s = 10.54 and 11.20 GeV

We report e^(+)e^(-)→ bb(macron) cross section measurements by the BABAR experiment performed during an energy scan in the range of 10.54 to 11.20 GeV at the SLAC PEP-II e^(+)e^(-) collider. A total relative error of about 5% is reached in more than 300 center-of-mass energy steps, separated by about 5 MeV. These measurements can be used to derive precise information on the parameters of the Y (10860) and Y (11020) resonances. In particular we show that their widths may be smaller than previously measured