Sentences with phrase «weak interactions»

Such a patchwork membrane likely arises from a combination of weak interactions between the diverse lipid and protein constituents of biological membranes.
They discovered that attachment is probably mediated by multiple weak interactions, which could potentially be blocked by a combination of drugs or antibodies.
When the small instruments didn't detect any dark matter, scientists kept making them bigger, since larger instruments can detect weaker interactions.
In one of the four newly - published papers, Petersson and his colleague Riccardo Torre of the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, outline a particle that would have very weak interactions with other particles and would exist within a framework of theories known as supersymmetry.
In a parallel way, the modern theory of weak interactions describes particles (the W and Z particles) interacting with electrons, neutrinos, quarks and other particles.
These range from chemical, mechanical and electrostatic through, most recently, to the very weak interactions between molecules.
In contrast, the aggregation - based system is driven by weak interactions between different molecules or their parts.
Researchers, led by Prof. Julia Khusnutdinova, designed compounds whose photoluminescence depended on weak interactions between atoms within the single compound molecule itself.
There's a large surface area with weak interactions for which we have typically failed to find good drugs,» he said.
Neutrinos are elementary particles known for displaying weak interactions.
A comparison of the simulations showed weaker interaction between hemicellulose and the modified lignin than with wild lignin, suggesting that hydrophobic lignin interacts less with hydrophilic hemicellulose.
This article describes the state of knowledge of weak interactions in 1960, the conception and implementation of the first high - energy neutrino experiment, and the not altogether unexpected result that the muon neutrino is different from the electron neutrino.
Conventional multiferroics are predominantly controlled by electricity and exhibit weak interactions with magnetism.
The inherently weak interactions between carbohydrates and proteins or other biomolecules makes these interactions difficult to study.
These are stabilised mainly by weak interactions — such as hydrogen bonds, intramolecular interactions, and inter molecular dispersive forces, — between the backbone and the lateral chain of their amino acids.
After that I started my PhD at the University of Gothenburg, working with Professor Mate Erdelyi on weak interactions and conformational analysis of peptidomimetics.
With an expected mass of 50 - 1,000 billion electron volts (GeV)-- the mass of a proton is 1 GeV — and weak interaction with everyday matter, the neutralino is a prime candidate for being a WIMP.
«Cosmic powers, or forces, there surely are,» Quine says, and these are perhaps all reducible to gravitation, magnetism, and strong and weak interaction.
The weak interactions that WIMPs possess (and super-WIMPs lack) do not have any appreciable impact on how long they take to come to rest or how well they seed galaxy formation.
Theory states that fermions with a weak interaction should pair up at the temperature at which they become superconductive.
These weak interactions, such as hydrogen bonds, van der Waals forces, and π - π interactions, govern the assembly of everything from DNA in its famous double helix to the bonding of H2O molecules in liquid water.
A second paper suggested that these particles would have a very slow interaction rate — weak interactions, in other words.
The crystals are made of layers bound by weak interactions, known as Van der Waals interactions.
Ray Jayawardhana: Yes, and that challenge is pretty small because they only feel what we call the weak force, the weak interaction force.
«The central challenge in particle physics today is to understand what differentiates electromagnetism from the weak interactions that govern radioactivity and the energy output of the sun.
Through large - scale computer simulations, the Uppsala researchers were able to demonstrate a weak interaction between magnetic moments on the neighbouring molecule, which were transmitted through the gold electrons, the so - called Ruderman - Kittel - Kasuya - Yosida (RKKY) interaction.
The influence of electromagnetism extends to infinite distances, whereas the influence of the weak interaction is confined to subnuclear dimensions, less than about 10 - 15 centimeters.
Whether we can use the same technique, as employed with our research into Ds3 * (2860) ˉ, to also improve our understanding of the weak interaction is a key question raised by this discovery.
The new mathematical model built by lead author Hamid Telmouri and co-author Kareem Mehrabiani, both Rice graduate students, analyzes short sequences of those blocks to demonstrate that both strong and weak interactions are important to regulate the flux, or movement, of motor proteins.
These experiments completed the observations of the particles involved in beta decay and paved the way for use of the free neutrino to probe the nature of the weak interaction.
The new mathematical model built by lead author Hamid Teimouri and co-author Kareem Mehrabiani, both Rice graduate students, analyzes short sequences of those blocks to demonstrate that both strong and weak interactions are important to regulate the flux, or movement, of motor proteins.
Freedman was a world - renowned investigator of fundamental physical laws whose many accomplishments include unique contributions to the study of neutrinos and the weak interaction.
The DFG Research Training Group Strong and Weak Interactions - from Hadrons to Dark Matter at the University of Muenster, Germany, invites applications for various PhD Positions... Job details & apply
Protein - protein complexes show good complementarity in surface shape and polarity and are stabilized largely by weak interactions, such as burial of hydrophobic surface, hydrogen bonds, and van der Waals forces.
Of all man - made materials, the narrow hydrophobic inner pores of carbon nanotubes (CNT) hold the most promise to deliver the level of confinement and weak interactions with water molecules that facilitate the formation of one - dimensional hydrogen - bonded water chains that enhance proton transport.
That never really comes to pass, and in a world where apps and smartphones are at the heart of things, the weak interaction through the Nexus Remote app isn't worth its salt.
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