Velocity-Dependent Forces in Atomic Force Microscopy Imaging of Lipid Films

We have imaged adsorbed fluid lipid bilayers by atomic force microscopy. The patches were formed by rupture of phospholipid vesicles onto magnesium fluoride. We show that the membrane patches are fluid but can be stably imaged at scan rates higher than 6 p d s . At lower scan rates the tip penetrates through the layer. The penetrating tip does not destroy the fluid patches, and the previous image can be restored after increasing the scanning velocity. The dynamic forces that possibly explain the effect are discussed

Design Criteria for Transparent Mobile Event Recommendations

Recommender systems assist the user to overcome the information overflow of today’s information society. When a recommendation failed, user’s trust in a system decreases due to the fact that most recommender systems act as black boxes. They don’t offer any insight into the systems logic and cannot be questioned as it is normal for recommendations between humans. Users don’t know how and which personal information is processed. Transparency, which is about explaining to the user why a recommendation is made, allows understanding the nature of a recommendation. Within a mobile environment, it is possible to address the user more individualized but transparency needs a completely different way of visualization and interaction. The paper in hand aims at an analysis of a survey which asked about the kind of style element as well as how much information should be visualized on a mobile device in order to offer transparency

The Process of Right Thinking

In the premise of right thinking, I was seeking to show to you through a series of scripture passages, both in the Old Testament and the New Testament, that our actions are regularly the product of our deep thinking

Motivation By Reward: Session 1

Description ...I would like to address the area of motivation by reward, and I want to introduce it by expanding something of the contemporary problem that we face and some suggested solutions to the problem. And then an understanding of the doctrine of salvation

Principles for Measuring Progress

I\u27d like to give you this morning in this concluding session a couple of principles for measuring your progress under Christ likeness, from Hebrews 5:11-14. Unfortunately, Hebrews five and six have oftentimes become such a battleground between Calvinists and Arminians that I think we lose the whole point of the passage. To me, Hebrews is a tremendously practical book, especially in our day when we have so very many people who are recently born again, at least by their own confession, and need to move on to maturity in Jesus Christ

The Premise of Right Thinking

...So I want to give you an outline of where we will move today. This will be the basic thrust. We will be talking about the premise of right thinking, and I have put the delineation of that in an order of starting with Scripture, moving to a doctrine

Find Your Identity

...I want to turn back once more to Romans chapter twelve. And now I\u27d like to deal with the third part of that section that we looked at, starting with Romans 11:33, that focuses our attention on what God is like, and then to chapter twelve, verses one and two, the familiar passage that talks about our not being conformed but being transformed