We numerically study the dynamic behavior under a symmetric shear flow of selected examples of concentrated phase emulsions with multicore morphology confined within a microfluidic channel. A variety of nonequilibrium steady states is reported. Under low shear rates, the emulsion is found to exhibit a solidlike behavior, in which cores display a periodic planetarylike motion with approximately equal angular velocity.

Recently, many European local authorities have set up Urban Consolidation Centres (UCC) for dealing with challenges arising from the environmental and social impacts of logistical activities in urban contexts through shipment synchronisation and carrier coordination policies. However, the number of successful UCC projects led by local authorities in Europe is low, with most of the UCCs failing to achieve financial sustainability after the initial experimental phase, which is often heavily supported by public funds.

The existence of eigenfunctions for a class of fully anisotropic elliptic equations is established. The relevant equations are associated with constrained minimization problems for integral func- tionals depending on the gradient of competing functions through general anisotropic Young functions. In particular, the latter need neither be radial, nor have a polynomial growth, and are not even assumed to satisfy the so called \Delta_2-condition. In particular, our analysis requires the development of some new aspects of the theory of anisotropic Orlicz-Sobolev spaces.

Global mean sea level rise associated with global warming has a major impact on coastal areas and represents one of the significant natural hazards. The Asia-Pacific region, which has the highest concentration of human population in the world, represents one of the larger areas on Earth being threatened by the rise of sea level. Recent studies indicate a global sea level of 3.2 mm/yr as measured from 20 years of satellite altimetry. The combined effect of sea level rise and local land subsidence, can be overwhelming for coastal areas.

In this paper, we study the retrieval of water vapor profiles from simulated FORUM measurements. We show that the bias towards the a-priori introduced by the Optimal Estimation technique can be reduced by using larger errors for the a-priori. Reducing the strength of the a-priori may, however, cause unphysical oscillations in the resulting profiles because of the ill-conditioning of the retrieval problem. An a-posteriori regularization technique, the Iterative Variable Strength method, is thus applied to reduce the amplitude of the oscillations.

We present a new multistage method to study the N-Methyl-D-Aspartate (NMDA) neuroreceptor starting from the reconstruction of its crystallographic structure. Thanks to the combination of Homology Modelling, Molecular Dynamics and Lattice Boltzmann simulations, we analyse the allosteric transition of NDMA upon ligand binding and compute the receptor response to ionic passage across the membrane.

The present paper represents a first methodological work for the construction of a robust and accurate algorithm for the solution of an inverse problem given by the identification of the parameters of a lumped mathematical model of fetal circulation introduced by G. Pennati et al. (1997). The underlying estimation techniques here applied are two global search meth- ods, respectively a Parameter Space Investigation (PSI) and the Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF), with a refinement performed with a local search method, i.e. Levenberg- Marquardt method (LM).

This paper proposes a toy model where, in the Einstein equations, the right-hand side is modified by the addition of a term proportional to the symmetrized partial contraction of the Ricci tensor with the energy-momentum tensor, while the left-hand side remains equal to the Einstein tensor. Bearing in mind the existence of a natural length scale given by the Planck length, dimensional analysis shows that such a term yields a correction linear in ? to the classical term that is instead just proportional to the energy-momentum tensor.

The linear-order effects of radiation-reaction on the classical scattering of two point masses, in general relativity, are derived by a variation-of-constants method. Explicit expressions for the radiation-reaction contributions to the changes of 4-momentum during scattering are given to linear order in the radiative losses of energy, linear-momentum, and angular momentum. The polynomial dependence on the masses of the 4-momentum changes is shown to lead to nontrivial identities relating the various radiative losses.

A recently introduced approach to the classical gravitational dynamics of binary systems involves intricate integrals (linked to a combination of nonlocal-in-time interactions with iterated 1r-potential scattering) which have so far resisted attempts at their analytical evaluation.