INSTABILITIES ON ALPINE TEMPERATE GLACIERS: NEW INSIGHTS ARISING FROM THE NUMERICAL MODELLING OF ALLALINGLETSCHER (VALAIS, SWITZERLAND)

Instabilities on Alpine temperate glaciers: new insights arising from the numerical modelling of Allalingletscher (Valais, Switzerland)

The processes leading to a glacier instability depend on the thermal properties of the contact between the glacier and its bedrock.Assessing the stability of temperate glacier Twin/Full Bunk Bed (i.e.the glacier can slide on its bedrock) remains problematic.In order to scrutinize in more detail the processes governing such "sliding" instabilities,

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The effect of macromolecular crowding on the electrostatic component of barnase-barstar binding: a computational, implicit solvent-based study.

Macromolecular crowding within the cell can impact both protein folding and binding.Earlier models of cellular crowding focused on the excluded volume, entropic effect of crowding agents, which generally favors compact protein states.Recently, other effects of crowding have been explored, including enthalpically-related crowder-protein interactions

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Challenges and solutions to the scale-up of porous materials

Abstract With increasing pace, crystalline open frameworks are moving to larger scale, mature applications that stretch as broadly as catalysis, Cocktail Shakers separation, water purification, adsorption, sensing, biomineralization and energy storage.A particular challenge in this development can be the unexpected variation in material properties

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