The extended minimal geometric deformation (EMGD) is employed on the fluid membrane paradigm, to describe compact stellar objects as Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) consisting of gravitons. The black hole quantum portrait, besides deriving a preciser phenomenological bound for the fluid brane tension, is then scrutinized from the point of view of the configurational entropy. It yields a range for the critical density of the EMGD BEC, whose configurational entropy has global minima suggesting the configurational stability of the EMGD BEC.

The extended minimal geometric deformation (EMGD) procedure, in the holographic membrane paradigm, is employed to model stellar distributions that arise upon selfinteracting scalar glueball dark matter condensation. Such scalar glueballs are SU(N ) Yang-Mills hidden sectors beyond the Standard Model. Then, corrections to the gravitational wave radiation, emitted by SU(N ) EMGD dark glueball stars mergers, are derived, and their respective spectra are studied in the EMGD framework, due to a phenomenological brane tension with finite value. The bulk Weyl fluid that drives the EMGD is then proposed to be experimentally detected by enhanced windows at the eLISA and LIGO.

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A family of deformed AdS 4-Reissner-Nordström black branes, governed by a free parameter, is derived using the ADM formalism, in the context of the membrane paradigm. Their new event horizons, the Hawking temperature and other aspects are scrutinized. AdS/CFT nearhorizon methods are then implemented to compute the shear viscosity-to-entropy ratio for the deformed AdS 4-Reissner-Nordström metric. The Killing equation is shown to yield new values for the free parameter and the shear viscosity-toentropy ratio is used to derive a reliable range for the tidal charge.

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Blood coagulation is a vital process for humans and other species. Following an injury to a blood vessel, a cascade of molecular signals is transmitted, inhibiting and activating more than a dozen coagulation factors and resulting in the formation of a fibrin clot that ceases the bleeding. In this process, the Coagulation factor V (FV) is a master regulator, coordinating critical steps of this process. Mutations to this factor result in spontaneous bleeding episodes and prolonged hemorrhage after trauma or surgery. Although the role of FV is well characterized, it is unclear how single-point mutations affect its structure. In this study, to understand the effect of mutations, we created a detailed network map of this protein, where each node is a residue, and two residues are connected if they are in close proximity in the three-dimensional structure. Overall, we analyzed 63 point-mutations from patients and identified common patterns underlying FV deficient phenotypes. We used structural and evolutionary patterns as input to machine learning algorithms to anticipate the effects of mutations and anticipated FV-deficiency with fair accuracy. Together, our results demonstrate how clinical features, genetic data and in silico analysis are converging to enhance treatment and diagnosis of coagulation disorders.

We built a magnetic stirrer to mix tea and honey and developed a method to determine the homogeneity of the mixture based on the variation of light intensity of a laser beam with time due to its scattering by the mixture. The addressed problem was that of mixing tea and honey as fast as possible with a power limitation of one single 1.5 V battery, following the statement of Problem 15 of the 9th International Physicists’ Tournament. The influence of temperature and honey concentration on the total time of mixing was studied through the performance of several experiments reported here. In the best configuration of parameters, the total mixture occurs in less than 2 s, while in the worst configuration, the time necessary reaches 10 s. Results validate the magnetic stirrer as a proper device for mixing tea with honey and light attenuation as an excellent physical property for investigating the homogeneity of the mixture of the honey in tea. Supplementary investigations were made exploring the influence of adding sugar and or a slice of lemon to the tea.

In this work we studied the sound produced by the movement of a hex nut inside an air balloon. We demonstrated, by experiments with hex nuts and nuts without edges, the importance of the nut edges for the production of the screaming sound. Our experimental results show that the most intense frequency of the sound spectrum is directly proportional to the hex nut’s speed of translation, while inversely proportional to its lateral length, thus allowing one to predict the most intense frequency generated by this system.