11 research outputs found

    The Mechanism Of Hydrotrope Action Of A Dicarboxylic Acid

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    The mechanism of the hydro trope action of a dicarboxylic acid Mono soap was investigated by determination of the change in order parameter of the amphiphile in a lamellar liquid crystal. The results showed addition of the hydro trope considerably to reduce the order while addition of a surfactant had no effect. © 1986

    Monitoring Social Distancing Using OpenCv

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    The paper proposes a method for social separating identification based on deep understanding of how to measure the gap between people in order to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. By evaluating with the aid of videos as feedback, the position instrument was developed to make people aware of the importance of keeping a safe distance from one another. The input video outline from the camera has been used as details, along with a free and open source object location system based on YOLOv3. Calculation that was used to determine walker recognition. After that, the input frame outline was modified to elevated perspective for distance estimation in the 2-Dimensional plane. The RED edge and line represent the range between individuals being measured and a part of the rebellious pairing of individuals during the showcase. The proposed strategy is accepted using a pre-recorded feedback frame of people walking around the city on foot. This result demonstrates how the presented methodology can make decisions about social removing estimates for a large number of people in the input picture. As the discovery apparatus was gradually introduced, this developed technique evolved as well

    A new picture of the Lifshitz critical behavior

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    New field theoretic renormalization group methods are developed to describe in a unified fashion the critical exponents of an m-fold Lifshitz point at the two-loop order in the anisotropic (m not equal to d) and isotropic (m=d close to 8) situations. The general theory is illustrated for the N-vector phi^4 model describing a d-dimensional system. A new regularization and renormalization procedure is presented for both types of Lifshitz behavior. The anisotropic cases are formulated with two independent renormalization group transformations. The description of the isotropic behavior requires only one type of renormalization group transformation. We point out the conceptual advantages implicit in this picture and show how this framework is related to other previous renormalization group treatments for the Lifshitz problem. The Feynman diagrams of arbitrary loop-order can be performed analytically provided these integrals are considered to be homogeneous functions of the external momenta scales. The anisotropic universality class (N,d,m) reduces easily to the Ising-like (N,d) when m=0. We show that the isotropic universality class (N,m) when m is close to 8 cannot be obtained from the anisotropic one in the limit d --> m near 8. The exponents for the uniaxial case d=3, N=m=1 are in good agreement with recent Monte Carlo simulations for the ANNNI model.Comment: 48 pages, no figures, two typos fixe

    Susceptibility amplitude ratio for generic competing systems

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    We calculate the susceptibility amplitude ratio near a generic higher character Lifshitz point up to one-loop order. We employ a renormalization group treatment with LL independent scaling transformations associated to the various inequivalent subspaces in the anisotropic case in order to compute the ratio above and below the critical temperature and demonstrate its universality. Furthermore, the isotropic results with only one type of competition axes have also been shown to be universal. We describe how the simpler situations of mm-axial Lifshitz points as well as ordinary (noncompeting) systems can be retrieved from the present framework.Comment: 20 pages, no figure

    Differential Effects of the Hydrophobic Surfactant Proteins on the Formation of Inverse Bicontinuous Cubic Phases

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    Prior studies have shown that the biological mixture of the two hydrophobic surfactant proteins, SP-B and SP-C, produces faster adsorption of the surfactant lipids to an air/water interface, and that they induce 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl phosphatidylethanolamine (POPE) to form inverse bicontinuous cubic phases. SP-B has a much greater effect than SP-C on adsorption. If the two proteins induce formation of the bicontinuous structures and faster adsorption by similar mechanisms, then they should also have differential ability to form the cubic phases. To test this hypothesis, we measured small angle X-ray scattering on the individual proteins combined with POPE. SP-B replicated the doserelated ability of the combined proteins to induce the cubic phases at temperatures more than 25°C below the point at which POPE alone forms the curved inverse-hexagonal phase. With SP-C, diffraction from cubic structures was either absent or present only with larger amounts of protein at low intensities. The correlation between the structural effects of inducing curved structures and the functional effects on the rate of adsorption fits with the model in which SP-B promotes adsorption by facilitating formation of a negatively curved, rate-limiting intermediate structure
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