Features of Contact Interaction of Anti-Friction-Wear-Resistant Polypropylene Composite Materials with Raw Cotton

Based on the concepts of the theory of interaction and research in the course of researching the process of studying the interaction of composite polymer materials using the method of modeling interaction - the mechano-electric theory of contact interaction. The proposed formula for determining the coefficient of friction of composite polymer materials using pulp (raw cotton).

Assessing the Potential of Sustainable Value Chains in the Collaborative Economy

The current business paradigm entails a narrow, profit-centered and managerially-focused nature. This article proposes that the study of the collaborative economy necessitates an inevitable shift in the conventional business paradigm and suggests that the institutional school of marketing thought, in general, and the electric theory of marketing, in particular, offers a useful theoretical framework for investigating the theoretical impact of the collaborative economy on the value chain. Uber is used as an illustrative case, on which the electric theory of marketing is applied, to demonstrate how the archetype of the collaborative economy theoretically impacts the value chain and contributes to sustainability in the value chain in the transportation services industry. The study provides further insights in the form of suggestions and propositions for ensuring sustainability in the value chain of collaborative systems.

Umberto Boccioni’s Elasticity, Italian Futurism and the Ether of Space

This chapter focuses on Umberto Boccioni’s 1913 painting Elasticity and his response to the ether in both its scientific and its occult contexts. The absence of translations of Boccioni’s 1914 book Pittura scultura futuriste, combined with the general lack of knowledge of early twentieth-century ether physics, has obscured this central theme of Boccioni’s art and theory. Boccioni’s treatise is, in fact, filled with references to contemporary science, including X-rays, Hertzian waves, electrons and ‘the electric theory of matter’. The latter reference suggests his specific awareness of Oliver Lodge, whose ideas and writings were well known in Italy—in both popular scientific and occult sources. Indeed, for futurists such as Boccioni, as for so many others in the early twentieth century, occultism (including spiritualism) and science seemed to be equally valid routes for exploring the unknown. Lodge’s writings about an elastic, energy-filled, matter-producing ether surely provided the stimulus for Boccioni’s Elasticity.

Effect of particle surface charge on drug uptake

In this paper, it aims to build the relationship of statically electric interaction between the surface charge of a particle drug and cellular uptake. The statically electric theory is applied to study the change of wetting between the drug particle and the cell, a factor that enhanced uptake of cells induced by particle’s surface charge is introduced, then it is formulated according to Kelvin theory for dissolving of solid particle in liquid. It is found that the change of contact angle between the surface charged particle drug and the cell can be detected if the Zeta potential reaches to 6 mV in water like solution, an increase of about 11.1% for the uptake could be obtained for a polymer particle with molar mass

THE STANDARD MODEL IS NATURAL AS MAGNETIC GAUGE THEORY

We suggest that the Standard Model can be viewed as the magnetic dual of a gauge theory featuring only fermionic matter content. We show this by first introducing a Pati–Salam like extension of the Standard Model and then relating it to a possible dual electric theory featuring only fermionic matter. The absence of scalars in the electric theory indicates that the associated magnetic theory is free from quadratic divergences. Our novel solution to the Standard Model hierarchy problem leads also to a new insight on the mystery of the observed number of fundamental fermion generations by naturally explaining why it has to be at least three.

META-STABLE BRANE CONFIGURATIONS BY DUALIZING THE TWO GAUGE GROUPS

We consider the [Formula: see text] supersymmetric gauge theories with product gauge groups. The two kinds of D6-branes in the electric theory are both displaced and rotated respectively where these deformations are interpreted as the mass terms and quartic terms for the two kinds of flavors. Then we apply the Seiberg dual to the whole gauge group factors by moving the branes and obtain the corresponding dual gauge theories. By analyzing the magnetic superpotentials consisting of an interaction term between a magnetic meson field and dual matters as well as the above deformations for each gauge group, we present the type IIA nonsupersymmetric meta-stable brane configurations.

NON-ABELIAN VORTEX AND CONFINEMENT

We discuss general properties and possible types of magnetic vortices in non-Abelian gauge theories (we consider here G = SU (N), SO (N), USp (2N)) in the Higgs phase. The sources of such vortices carry "fractional" quantum numbers such as Zn charge (for SU (N)), but also full non-Abelian charges of the dual gauge group. If such a model emerges as an effective dual magnetic theory of the fundamental (electric) theory, the non-Abelian vortices can provide for the mechanism of quark confinement in the latter.