Test of bell’s inequality using the one-atom micromaser

We examine a local realist bound in the case of a one-atom micromaser. It is shown that such a bound is violated using a simplified treatment of the micromaser. We consider the effect of dissipation in a proposed experiment with the real micromaser. It is seen that the magnitude of violation of a Bell-type inequality depends significantly on the cavity parameters.     

Biosafety evaluation and quantitative determination of poly(hexamethylene biguanide) (PHMB) coated on cellulosic fabrics by Kubelka–Munk equation

Cellulose - It is difficult to directly determine the quantity of cationic finishing agents on the surface of cellulosic fabrics. Herein, we report a direct and feasible method by...     

Global Analysis of the Flows of Fluids with Pressure-Dependent Viscosities

 To describe the flows of fluids over a wide range of pressures, it is necessary to take into account the fact that the viscosity of the fluid depends on the pressure. That the viscosity depends on the pressure has been verified by numerous careful experiments. While the existence of solutions local-in-time to the equations governing the flows of such fluids are available for small, special data and rather unrealistic dependence of the viscosity on the pressure, no global existence results are in place. Our interest here is to establish the existence of weak solutions for spatially periodic three-dimensional flows that are global in time, for a large class of physically meaningful viscosity-pressure relationships. (Accepted May 1, 2002) Published online November 15, 2002 Communicated by S. S. ANTMAN     

Pretilt angle of liquid crystals and liquid-crystal alignment on microgrooved polyimide surfaces fabricated by soft embossing method

In this study, the soft embossing method is proposed to fabricate periodical microgrooved structure on polyimide surfaces. These microgrooved polyimide surfaces are assembled to form liquid-crystal cells. It is found that the director of liquid crystals uniformly aligns along the groove direction even when the groove width is as high as 3 microm. The anchoring energy of these microgrooved polyimide surfaces is higher than that of the typical rubbed surfaces. The pretilt angle of liquid crystals is adjusted by tuning the surface polarity of the polyimide alignment layer, which is identified by the advancing contact angle of water. The surface polarity of polyimide alignment layers is manipulated by simply mixing two kinds of polyimide: a more hydrophilic one and a more hydrophobic one. It is found that the pretilt angle of liquid crystals increases along with the advancing contact angle of water on the alignment layer under the condition of a fixed surface topography.     

Probing stereoselective inhibition of the acyl binding site of cholesterol esterase with four diastereomers of 2'-<Emphasis Type="Italic">N</Emphasis>-α-methylbenzylcarbamyl-1, 1'-bi-2-naphthol

Background  

Recently there has been increased interest in pancreatic cholesterol esterase due to correlation between enzymatic activity in vivo and absorption of dietary cholesterol. Cholesterol esterase plays a role in digestive lipid absorption in the upper intestinal tract, though its role in cholesterol absorption in particular is controversial. Serine lipases, acetylcholinesterase, butyrylcholinesterase, and cholesterol esterase belong to a large family of proteins called the α/β-hydrolase fold, and they share the same catalytic machinery as serine proteases in that they have an active site serine residue which, with a histidine and an aspartic or glutamic acid, forms a catalytic triad. The aim of this work is to study the stereoselectivity of the acyl chain binding site of the enzyme for four diastereomers of an inhibitor.