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Relaxation dynamics of a protein solution investigated by dielectric spectroscopy
In the present work, we provide a dielectric study on two differently
concentrated aqueous lysozyme solutions in the frequency range from 1 MHz to 40
GHz and for temperatures from 275 to 330 K. We analyze the three dispersion
regions, commonly found in protein solutions, usually termed beta-, gamma-, and
delta-relaxation. The beta-relaxation, occurring in the frequency range around
10 MHz and the gamma-relaxation around 20 GHz (at room temperature) can be
attributed to the rotation of the polar protein molecules in their aqueous
medium and the reorientational motion of the free water molecules,
respectively. The nature of the delta-relaxation, which often is ascribed to
the motion of bound water molecules, is not yet fully understood. Here we
provide data on the temperature dependence of the relaxation times and
relaxation strengths of all three detected processes and on the dc conductivity
arising from ionic charge transport. The temperature dependences of the beta-
and gamma-relaxations are closely correlated. We found a significant
temperature dependence of the dipole moment of the protein, indicating
conformational changes. Moreover we find a breakdown of the
Debye-Stokes-Einstein relation in this protein solution, i.e., the dc
conductivity is not completely governed by the mobility of the solvent
molecules. Instead it seems that the dc conductivity is closely connected to
the hydration shell dynamics.Comment: 11 pages, 7 figure
Life at high Deborah number
In many biological systems, microorganisms swim through complex polymeric
fluids, and usually deform the medium at a rate faster than the inverse fluid
relaxation time. We address the basic properties of such life at high Deborah
number analytically by considering the small-amplitude swimming of a body in an
arbitrary complex fluid. Using asymptotic analysis and differential geometry,
we show that for a given swimming gait, the time-averaged leading-order
swimming kinematics of the body can be expressed as an integral equation on the
solution to a series of simpler Newtonian problems. We then use our results to
demonstrate that Purcell's scallop theorem, which states that time-reversible
body motion cannot be used for locomotion in a Newtonian fluid, breaks down in
polymeric fluid environments
Lorentz Violation and Short-Baseline Neutrino Experiments
A general discussion is given of signals for broken Lorentz symmetry in
short-baseline neutrino experiments. Among the effects that Lorentz violation
can introduce are a dependence on energy differing from that of the usual
massive-neutrino solution and a dependence on the direction of neutrino
propagation. Using the results of the LSND experiment, explicit analysis of the
effects of broken Lorentz symmetry yields a nonzero value (3+/-1) x 10^{-19}
GeV for a combination of coefficients for Lorentz violation. This lies in the
range expected for effects originating from the Planck scale in an underlying
unified theory.Comment: 4 pages REVTe
Saber: window-based hybrid stream processing for heterogeneous architectures
Modern servers have become heterogeneous, often combining multicore CPUs with many-core GPGPUs. Such heterogeneous architectures have the potential to improve the performance of data-intensive stream processing applications, but they are not supported by current relational stream processing engines. For an engine to exploit a heterogeneous architecture, it must execute streaming SQL queries with sufficient data-parallelism to fully utilise all available heterogeneous processors, and decide how to use each in the most effective way. It must do this while respecting the semantics of streaming SQL queries, in particular with regard to window handling. We describe SABER, a hybrid high-performance relational stream processing engine for CPUs and GPGPUs. SABER executes windowbased streaming SQL queries in a data-parallel fashion using all available CPU and GPGPU cores. Instead of statically assigning query operators to heterogeneous processors, SABER employs a new adaptive heterogeneous lookahead scheduling strategy, which increases the share of queries executing on the processor that yields the highest performance. To hide data movement costs, SABER pipelines the transfer of stream data between different memory types and the CPU/GPGPU. Our experimental comparison against state-ofthe-art engines shows that SABER increases processing throughput while maintaining low latency for a wide range of streaming SQL queries with small and large windows sizes
Thin film GaAs photovoltaic solar energy cells
Fabrication process for thin film gallium arsenide photovoltaic solar energy cell
Role of phi decays for K- yields in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
The production of strange mesons in collisions of Ar+KCl at a kinetic beam
energy of 1.756 AGeV is studied within a transport model of
Boltzmann-\"Uhling-Uhlenbeck (BUU) type. In particular, and
yields and spectra are compared to the data mesured recently by the HADES
collaboration and the yield measured previously by the FOPI
collaboration. Our results are in agreement with these data thus presenting an
interpretation of the subleading role of decays into 's and
confirming the importance of the strangeness-exchange channels for
production.Comment: 24 pages, 19 figure
The POLCOMS-WAM Wave-Current Interaction Model: development and performance in the NW Mediterranean
Grain boundary energies and cohesive strength as a function of geometry
Cohesive laws are stress-strain curves used in finite element calculations to
describe the debonding of interfaces such as grain boundaries. It would be
convenient to describe grain boundary cohesive laws as a function of the
parameters needed to describe the grain boundary geometry; two parameters in 2D
and 5 parameters in 3D. However, we find that the cohesive law is not a smooth
function of these parameters. In fact, it is discontinuous at geometries for
which the two grains have repeat distances that are rational with respect to
one another. Using atomistic simulations, we extract grain boundary energies
and cohesive laws of grain boundary fracture in 2D with a Lennard-Jones
potential for all possible geometries which can be simulated within periodic
boundary conditions with a maximum box size. We introduce a model where grain
boundaries are represented as high symmetry boundaries decorated by extra
dislocations. Using it, we develop a functional form for the symmetric grain
boundary energies, which have cusps at all high symmetry angles. We also find
the asymptotic form of the fracture toughness near the discontinuities at high
symmetry grain boundaries using our dislocation decoration model.Comment: 12 pages, 19 figures, changed titl
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