Anomalous transport coefficients in a turbulent plasma

1978 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Balescu ◽  
I. Paiva-Veretennicoff

A general self-consistent framework is developed for the calculation of transport coefficients in a collisionless, weakly turbulent plasma. These coefficients characterize the response to a perturbation away from a quasi-steady turbulent state, which is assumed to exist as a result of the stabilization of the linear instabilities. It is shown that a purely hydrodynamical description does not exist for plasmas: the macroscopic picture must include non-conserved quantities, which lead to the plasmadynamical (or ‘two-fluid’) picture of the system. The number of independent transport coefficients, necessary for the macroscopic characterization of the plasma, is correspondingly increased as compared with a two- component mixture of two ordinary fluids. The typical turbulent contributions to the transport coefficients are clearly exhibited.

1982 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiu Xiaoming ◽  
R. Balescu

In this paper we generalize the formalism developed by Balescu and Paiva-Veretennicoff, valid for any kind of weak turbulence, for the determination of all the transport coefficients of an unmagnetized turbulent plasma, to the case of a magnetized one, and suggest a technique to avoid finding the inverse of the turbulent collision operator. The implicit plasmadynamical equations of a two-fluid plasma are presented by means of plasmadynamical variables. The anomalous transport coefficients appear in their natural places in these equations. It is shown that the necessary number of transport coefficients for describing macroscopically the magnetized turbulent plasma does not exceed the number for the unmagnetized one. The typical turbulent and gyromotion terms, representing dissipative effects peculiar to the magnetized system, which contribute to the frequency-dependent transport coefficients are clearly exhibited.


2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zahra Nourzadeh ◽  
Navideh Anarjan ◽  
Gholamreza Ebrahimzadeh Rajaei ◽  
Hoda Jafarizadeh-Malmiri

Abstract Vitamin D, like other functional lipid bioactive compounds, t suffers from less structural stability, poor water solubility and consequently less bioavailability and cellular uptake. Preparation of vitamin D microemulsions is one of the solutions for the above problems. Thus, in the present study, vitamin D microemulsions were prepared using various one/two-component stabilizer systems, namely, Tween 20 and sodium caseinate in various proportions. The effects of stabilizer components proportions on characteristics of gained vitamin D microemulsions were evaluated using a two-component mixture design of experiment. Therefore, various polynomial models were proposed in order to predict the characteristics of produced microemulsions. According to the optimization analysis, the vitamin D microemulsions stabilized by a stabilizer system composed of 70% Tween 20 and 30% sodium caseinate could produce the most desirable microemulsions with minimum mean particle size, polydispersity, and maximum zeta potential, transparency and vitamin D content. The produced vitamin D microemulsions showed acceptable chemical and good physical stabilities, which can be incorporated easily in water-based food and pharmaceutical formulations.


1997 ◽  
Vol 90 (4) ◽  
pp. 679-681
Author(s):  
F. SAIJA ◽  
G. FIUMARA ◽  
P.V. GIAQUINTA

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 037116
Author(s):  
Victor L. Mironov

Author(s):  
Nabarun Deb ◽  
Sujayam Saha ◽  
Adityanand Guntuboyina ◽  
Bodhisattva Sen

Molecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 709
Author(s):  
Helge Berland ◽  
Øyvind M. Andersen

Anthocyanins with various functions in nature are one of the most important sources of colours in plants. They are based on anthocyanidins or 3-deoxyanthocyanidins having in common a C15-skeleton and are unique in terms of how each anthocyanidin is involved in a network of equilibria between different forms exhibiting their own properties including colour. Sphagnorubin C (1) isolated from the cell wall of peat moss (Sphagnum sp.) was in fairly acidic and neutral dimethyl sulfoxide characterized by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and ultraviolet–visible (UV–vis) absorption techniques. At equilibrium, the network of 1 behaved as a two–component colour system involving the reddish flavylium cationic and the yellow trans–chalcone forms. The additional D- and E-rings connected to the common C15-skeleton extend the π-conjugation within the molecule and provide both bathochromic shifts in the absorption spectra of the various forms as well as a low isomerization barrier between the cis- and trans-chalcone forms. The hemiketal and cis-chalcone forms were thus not observed experimentally by NMR due to their short lives. The stable, reversible network of 1 with good colour contrast between its two components has previously not been reported for other natural anthocyanins and might thus have potential in future photochromic systems. This is the first full structural characterization of any naturally occurring anthocyanin chalcone form.


2010 ◽  
Vol 192 (9) ◽  
pp. 2346-2358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alina D. Gutu ◽  
Kyle J. Wayne ◽  
Lok-To Sham ◽  
Malcolm E. Winkler

ABSTRACT The WalRK two-component system plays important roles in maintaining cell wall homeostasis and responding to antibiotic stress in low-GC Gram-positive bacteria. In the major human pathogen, Streptococcus pneumoniae, phosphorylated WalR Spn (VicR) response regulator positively controls the transcription of genes encoding the essential PcsB division protein and surface virulence factors. WalR Spn is phosphorylated by the WalK Spn (VicK) histidine kinase. Little is known about the signals sensed by WalK histidine kinases. To gain information about WalK Spn signal transduction, we performed a kinetic characterization of the WalRK Spn autophosphorylation, phosphoryltransferase, and phosphatase reactions. We were unable to purify soluble full-length WalK Spn . Consequently, these analyses were performed using two truncated versions of WalK Spn lacking its single transmembrane domain. The longer version (Δ35 amino acids) contained most of the HAMP domain and the PAS, DHp, and CA domains, whereas the shorter version (Δ195 amino acids) contained only the DHp and CA domains. The autophosphorylation kinetic parameters of Δ35 and Δ195 WalK Spn were similar [Km (ATP) ≈ 37 μM; k cat ≈ 0.10 min−1] and typical of those of other histidine kinases. The catalytic efficiency of the two versions of WalK Spn ∼P were also similar in the phosphoryltransfer reaction to full-length WalR Spn . In contrast, absence of the HAMP-PAS domains significantly diminished the phosphatase activity of WalK Spn for WalR Spn ∼P. Deletion and point mutations confirmed that optimal WalK Spn phosphatase activity depended on the PAS domain as well as residues in the DHp domain. In addition, these WalK Spn DHp domain and ΔPAS mutations led to attenuation of virulence in a murine pneumonia model.


1977 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Weigl ◽  
John Warkentin

Triphenylmethylcyclopentadiene exists as a mixture of isomers, the minor and major components of which are shown to be 1-triphenylmethylcyclopentadiene (1) and 2-triphenylmethyl-cyclopentadiene (2), respectively.Direct irradiation of a mixture of 1 and 2 led to formation of 5,6,6,-triphenylbicyclo[3.1.0]hex-2-ene (3) via rearrangement of 1. Acetophenone-sensitized irradiation of the same mixture gave 3 as well as a two component mixture of photodimers of 1 and/or 2. Results are interpreted in terms of the di-π-methane rearrangement mechanism.


2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 505-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosaria Simone ◽  
Maria Iannario

In the analysis of questionnaire-based evaluation of sport preferences, measurements of sport participation, opinions on social implications such as resurgence of racism, violence in stadiums and doping, the need arises to establish connections among motivations, subjects’ characteristics and responses. In this setting, the article deals with a selection of statistical models suitable to analyse sport rating data in which clusters of opposite responses are observed. Specifically, a two-component mixture of inverse hypergeometric (MIHG) distributions will be introduced and tested against competing models in order to yield a multifold interpretation of results. The ultimate comparative analysis will consider discrete models with a specific focus on those accounting for both uncertainty and feeling of self-evaluation in presence of inflation at the extreme categories. After a brief review of the methods, the proposal will be discussed both on ranking and rating data on the basis of two surveys on sport preferences and on measurements of sport activity: the identification of clusters of respondents with opposite choices will be investigated also in terms of covariates by comparing fitting performances of the selected models. The conclusions and insights offered by the study can be exploited to design plans of action for some specific policy or marketing strategy.


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