Improvement on bacteria-induced calcium mineralization ability of Bacillus pseudofirmus by an integrated high-throughput screening strategy

The CaCO3-mineralizing bacteria from different taxonomic groups have shown potential in restoration of construction material such as concretes, cements and stony materials. However, these strains are far from the demand of practical application due to some shortages, including the low mineralizing capacity. In this work, an integrated high...

Interactive design computation: A case study on quantum design paradigm

The ever-increasing complexity of design processes fosters novel design computation models to be employed in architectural research and design in order to facilitate accurate data processing and refined decision making. These computation models have enabled designers to work with complex geometry and numeric design constraints to explore a whole...

Are mixed-ethnic unions more likely to dissolve than co-ethnic unions? New evidence from Britain

The increasing proportion of ethnic minorities in Britain has been paralleled by an increase in the occurrence of mixed-ethnic marriages between one White partner and an ethnic minority partner. Such marriages are thought to be at higher risk of divorce, but empirical studies so far have been inconclusive. This paper uses the Office for National...

A Longitudinal Study of Migration Propensities for Mixed Ethnic Unions in England and Wales (discussion paper)

Most studies investigating residential segregation of ethnic minorities ignore the fact that the majority of adults live in couples. In recent years there has been a growth in the number of mixed ethnic unions that involve a minority member and a white member. To our knowledge, hardly any research has been undertaken to explicitly examine...

Lattice gas with nearest- and next-to-nearest-neighbor exclusion

We investigate a hard-square lattice gas on the square lattice by means of transfer-matrix and Monte Carlo methods. The size of the hard squares is equal to two lattice constants, so the simultaneous occupation of nearest-neighbor sites as well as of next-to-nearest-neighbor sites is excluded. Near saturation of the particle density, this system...

Specific heat of the simple-cubic Ising model

We provide an expression quantitatively describing the specific heat of the Ising model on the simple-cubic lattice in the critical region. This expression is based on finite-size scaling of numerical results obtained by means of a Monte Carlo method. It agrees satisfactorily with series expansions and with a set of experimental results. Our...

Contact dynamics of two floating cable-connected bodies

Percolation transitions in two dimensions

We investigate bond- and site-percolation models on several two-dimensional lattices numerically, by means of transfer-matrix calculations and Monte Carlo simulations. The lattices include the square, triangular, honeycomb kagome, and diced lattices with nearest-neighbor bonds, and the square lattice with nearest- and next-nearest-neighbor bonds...

Assessment of wind-forcing ompact on a global wind-wave model using the TOPEX altimeter

Evaluation of the effects of the communication cable on the dynamics of an underwater flight vehicle

Effects of measuring positions on directional wave spectrum in a basin with side wall reflection

An integrated method for computing the internal and external viscous flow field around the ducted propulsor behind an axisymmetric body

A method for the solving axisymmetrical internal and external fluid flow problems with primitive variable continuity equation formulation