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Thermal Modeling in Polymer Extrusion
In this paper we consider thermal effects of polymer flows through a cylindrical die. First, we derive a model for the oscillatory behavior of polymer flow in an extruder given a functional relation between the pressure and flow rate. A simple isothermal but temperature dependent model is constructed to find this relation. Unfortunately, the model is shown to be invalid in the physical regime of interest. We present several arguments to suggest that the isothermal assumption is reasonable but that a more detailed understanding of the small-scale molecular dynamics near the boundary may be required. Second, we show that a simplified model for thermoflow multiplicity in a cooled tube is inconsistent, when the stationary non-Newtonian flow is assumed to be incompressible without radial pressure gradients and without radial velocity. This inconsistency can be removed by allowing for weak compressibility effects in the down-steam area
4-Methyl-2,6-bis(phosphonomethyl)phenol dihydrate
The 4-methyl-2,6-bis(phosphomethyl)phenol molecule,
which crystallizes with two water molecules per asymmetric
unit, has approximate twofold symmetry and is
involved in extensive three-dimensional hydrogen bonding
in which every available OH group participates.
The principal dimensions include P--O 1.4981 (13)
and 1.5015 (14) ,~, four P--OH distances in the range
1.5395(14) to 1.5688(13) A, P--C 1.7857(17) and
1.7893 (17) ~k, and O...O intramolecular and intermolecular
hydro.gen-bond distances in the range 2.458 (2) to
2.866 (2) A
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Comparative effects of carbon dioxide enrichment and pH change on phytoplankton communities in SRS Carolina bay restoration efforts. Progress report, April 1994--March 1995
Impacts of land-use activities on wetland ecosystems are important issues for environmental planners, conservation groups, and government agencies. This project at DOE`s Savannah River Site focused its year one efforts on population changes produced by effects of changes in pH and CO2 resulting from simulated aquatic ecosystem successional processes. Results are being compared with phytoplankton changes induce by added nutrients
Plumage and ecology of cormorants
The paper draws on data attending the etho-ecology of four species of cormorants (Phalacrocoracidae) in support of an hypothesis for the adaptive significance of the predominantly dark plumage of these birds. It is suggested that a dark plumage, primarily by being most receptive to solar radiation, assists cormorants in supplementing metabolic heat for maintenance of normal body temperature. In those cormorants which have white extending over ventral and frontal aspects of the body, it is suggested that this is an adaptation to the feeding situation and that it promotes 'hunting camouflage' through countershading
The congenital and see-saw nystagmus in the prototypical achiasma of canines: comparison to the human achiasmatic prototype
AbstractWe applied new methods for canine eye-movement recording to the study of achiasmatic mutant Belgian Sheepdogs, documenting their nystagmus waveforms and comparing them to humans with either congenital nystagmus (CN) alone or in conjunction with achiasma. A sling apparatus with head restraints and infrared reflection with either earth- or head-mounted sensors were used. Data were digitized for later evaluation. The horizontal nystagmus (1â6 Hz) was similar to that of human CN. Uniocular and disconjugate nystagmus and saccades were recorded. See-saw nystagmus (SSN), not normally seen with human CN, was present in all mutants (0.5â6 Hz) and in the one human achiasmat studied thus far. This pedigree is an animal model of CN and the SSN caused by achiasma or uniocular decussation. Given the finding of SSN in all mutant dogs and in a human, achiasma may be sufficient for the development of congenital SSN and, in human infants, SSN should alert the clinician to the possibility of either achiasma or uniocular decussation. Finally, the interplay of conjugacy and disconjugacy suggests independent ocular motor control of each eye with variable yoking in the dog
Towards the Continuum Limit of the Overlap Quark Propagator in Landau Gauge
The properties of the momentum space quark propagator in Landau gauge are
examined for the overlap quark action in quenched lattice QCD. Numerical
calculations were done on two lattices with different lattice spacing and
similar physical volumes to explore the quark propagator in the continuum
limit. We have calculated the nonperturbative wavefunction renormalization
function and the nonperturbative mass function for a variety of
bare quark masses and perform a simple linear extrapolation to the chiral
limit. We find the behaviour of and in the chiral limit are in
good agreement between the two lattices.Comment: 3 pages, 2 figures, talk, Lattice2002(Chiral Fermion
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