Tracking raw material flow through a continuous direct compression line Part I of II: Residence time distribution modeling and sensitivity analysis enabling increased process yield.

Continuous manufacturing (CM) offers advantages in quality and space-time yield compared to common batch manufacturing. However, higher yield losses due to the start-up procedure make a broad application uneconomical. This work discusses the possibility of reducing yield losses by adjusting the degree of back-mixing.

Characteristics of the new phase in CDT.

The approach of Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT), a candidate theory of nonperturbative quantum gravity in 4D, turns out to have a rich phase structure. We investigate the recently discovered bifurcation phase [Formula: see text] and relate some of its characteristics to the presence of singular vertices of very high order. The transition lines separating this phase from the "time-collapsed" -phase and the de Sitter phase [Formula: see text] are of great interest when searching for physical scaling limits.

Second-order phase transition in causal dynamical triangulations.

Causal dynamical triangulations are a concrete attempt to define a nonperturbative path integral for quantum gravity. We present strong evidence that the lattice theory has a second-order phase transition line, which can potentially be used to define a continuum limit in the conventional sense of nongravitational lattice theories.

Evolutionary history and functional characterization of three large genes involved in sporulation in Bacillus cereus group bacteria.

The Bacillus cereus group of bacteria is a group of closely related species that are of medical and economic relevance, including B. anthracis, B. cereus, and B.