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Women of Faith in Science: the Double Glass Ceiling
The majority of female pre-service elementary school teachers pursuing licensure is choosing English as their cognate rather than mathematics or science. The reason females are not choosing science as their cognate may be due to the fact that science has long been considered a masculine pursuit. To complicate the issue, pre-service female teachers of deep religious faith are further challenged to navigate the dichotomy of science and religion. As a result, women, and especially women of deep religious faith, are at risk of not participating in science studies. The author suggests that there is room in the science classroom for open dialogue with students regarding the distinction between science and religion. This dialogue may help students, especially women of faith, gain a deeper understanding of the nature of science and encourage participation in science
Electrostatic forces on charged surfaces of bilayer lipid membranes
Simulating protein-membrane interactions is an important and dynamic area of
research. A proper definition of electrostatic forces on membrane surfaces is
necessary for developing electromechanical models of protein-membrane
interactions. Here we modeled the bilayer membrane as a continuum with general
continuous distributions of lipids charges on membrane surfaces. A new
electrostatic potential energy functional was then defined for this solvated
protein-membrane system. We investigated the geometrical transformation
properties of the membrane surfaces under a smooth velocity field. These
properties allows us to apply the Hadamard-Zolesio structure theorem, and the
electrostatic forces on membrane surfaces can be computed as the shape
derivative of the electrostatic energy functional
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