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Chapter and Conference Paper
Investigation of polymers in solution by polarized luminescence
In recent years, the method of polarized luminescence (PL) has become one of the most valuable methods for the study of macromolecules. It provides detailed information on micro-Brownian motion in polymer chai...
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In-Motion Weighing Scale and Some Problems of Its Metrological Evaluation
The obvious advantages of the coupled-in-motion railroad track scale motivated rapid development of this branch of scale making. The scales of the world-known companies, such as AVERY, RAILWEIGHT, STREETERAMET...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A theory for rule triggering systems
We define and study the family of RTS's, each appearing in the form of a relational database extended with a set of production-like rules with forward-chained operational semantics.
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Domain theory for nonmonotonic functions
We prove several lattice theoretical fixpoint theorems based on the classical theorem of Knaster and Tarski. These theorems give sufficient conditions for a system of generally nonmonotonic functions on a comp...
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Biosensors Based on Solvated Bilayers Attached to Electrodes
In our world, influenced by microelectronics and science fiction, if we have to imagine the next generation of diagnostic biosensors, it is clear that removal of blood from the body will not be required to mon...
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Thermomechanics of Molecular Networks and Rubberlike Materials
On simple elongation, rubberlike materials are capable of undergoing very large reversible elastic deformations. The modulus of elasticity, which unlike solids is strongly dependent on deformation, is some ord...
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Thermal Behavior of Solid Polymers During Fracture
The fracture of polymers is inevitably accompanied by thermal events. The sources of the thermal events may be both the deformational processes and the rupture of macromolecules. Pure elastic (brittle) fractur...
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Heat Capacity
The heat capacity of any solid body is determined by the normal modes of vibrations available to its structure. If the spectrum of vibrational states, ρ(ω)dω, which gives the number of modes of vibration whose fr...
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Thermal Expansion
Thermal expansion, or more widely thermal deformation, is characterized by the changes of the dimensions of a body resulting from the temperature changes. Similar to the thermal conductivity, the thermal expan...
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Thermomechanics of Glassy and Crystalline Polymers
Conventionally, the deformation of solids is treated within the framework of elasticity theory in terms of stresses and strains, i.e. in purely mechanical terms. Although experimental determination of stress-s...
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Thermodynamic Behavior of Solid Polymers in Plastic Deformation and Cold Drawing
The mechanical work spent on the irreversible deformation of solids is always at least partly dissipated. Therefore, independent of the sign of the heat effect resulting from the elastic deformation, plastic d...
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Experimental Methods and Instrumentation
Three types of measurements are usually used for the study of the thermal behavior of polymers under deformation: the temperature changes resulting from the deformation of the sample, the temperature dependenc...
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Thermal Conductivity
Most polymers are insulating systems, therefore, any electronic effects are absent in them and heat conduction occurs as a result of lattice vibrations. Theoretical consideration of the thermal conductivity of...
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Experimental Methods and Instrumentation
Two methods are usually used for the determination of the heat capacity of polymers over a wide temperature range: adiabatic calorimetry and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC).
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Visualization and Identification of Vortex Structures in Stratified Wakes
Isolated eddies and coherent structures (vortex arrays) effect the drag and lift acting upon obstacles in a flow, energy and contaminants transfer, flow structure and stability. They are widely studied in phys...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Small- and large-scale structures of the decaying turbulence in a continuously stratified liquid
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Generalized Ohm’s Law
In 1827 George Simon Ohm formulated his law thus pioneering studies of electric conductivity.
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The Ginzburg-Landau Functional
In this chapter we consider derivation of the Ginzburg-Landau functional (GLF) from different microscopic Hamiltonians. The words “microscopic Hamiltonian” mean that we start from some plausible representation...
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Field Theoretical RG
The field theoretical RG, developed to eliminate divergences in relativistic quantum field theories, has been a very effective calculational tool in critical thermodynamics. Usually, a thermodynamic system can...
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RG Study of Particular Systems
Any of the general methods introduced in the previous chapters can be applied to analyses of particular systems. In this chapter we consider application of the SE method to some simple examples. The central po...
