Two nonlinear diffusion equations for thin film epitaxy, with or without slope selection, are studied in this work. The nonlinearity models the Ehrlich–Schwoebel effect – the kinetic asymmetry in attachment and detachment of adatoms to and from terrace boundaries. Both perturbation analysis and numerical simulation are presented to show that such an atomistic effect is the origin of a nonlinear morphological instability, in a rough-smooth-rough pattern, that has been experimentally observed as transient in an early stage of epitaxial growth on rough surfaces. Initial-boundary-value problems for both equations are proven to be well-posed, and the solution regularity is also obtained. Galerkin spectral approximations are studied to provide both a priori bounds for proving the well-posedness and numerical schemes for simulation. Numerical results are presented to confirm part of the analysis and to explore the difference between the two models on coarsening dynamics.

It is well known that group is a set with an algebra operation, which is often denoted by G . A simple group is the group which has only the 2 trivial normal subgroups. The importance of the simple groups may analogue to the prime numbers in the number theory. The classification of the finite simple groups was the central problem of 20th century’s’ algebra. In this research report, we use Sylow theorem, Burnside theorem, group action and some other elementally group theory methods to obtain some criteria of simple group . By using these criteria we determine the possible simple groups whose order less than 700. Generalizes the results in the reference [1]，[2]， [3]，[4].We conclude that Theorem A group G of order less or equal than 700 could not be simple except for |G|∈{60,168,360,504,660 and all primes}.

Let ϕ be an analytic function defined on the unit disk$D$, with ϕ($D$)⊂$D$, ϕ(0)=0, and ϕ′(0)=λ≠0. Then by a classical result of G. Kœnigs, the sequence of normalized iterates Φ_{$n$}/λ^{$n$}converges uniformly on compact subsets of$D$to a function σ analytic in$D$which satisfies$σ$°φ=λ$σ$. It is of interest in the study of composition operators to know if, whenever σ belongs to a Hardy space$H$_{$p$}, the sequence Φ_{$n$}/λ^{$n$}converges to σ in the norm of$H$_{$p$}. We show that this is indeed the case, generalizing a result of P. Bourdon obtained under the assumption that ϕ is univalent.

The single-stranded RNA Flavivirus, Zika virus (ZIKV), has recently re-emerged and spread rapidly across the western hemispheres equatorial countries, primarily through Aedes mosquito transmission. While symptoms in adult infections appear to be self-limiting and mild, severe birth defects, such as microcephaly, have been linked to infection during early pregnancy. Recently, Tang et al. (Cell Stem Cell 2016, doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2016.02.016 ) demonstrated that ZIKV efficiently infects induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) derived human neural progenitor cells (hNPCs), resulting in cell cycle abnormalities and apoptosis. Consequently, hNPCs are a suggested ZIKV target. We analyzed the transcriptomic sequencing (RNA-seq) data (GEO: GSE78711) of ZIKV (Strain: MR766) infected hNPCs. For comparison to the ZIKV-infected hNPCs, the expression data from hNPCs infected with human cytomegalovirus (CMV) (Strain: AD169) was used (GEO: GSE35295). Utilizing a combination of Gene Ontology, database of human diseases, and pathway analysis, we generated a putative systemic model of infection supported by known molecular pathways of other highly related viruses. We analyzed RNA-sequencing data for transcript expression alterations in ZIKV-infected hNPCs, and then compared them to expression patterns of iPSC-derived hNPCs infected with CMV, a virus that can also induce severe congenital neurological defects in developing fetuses. We demonstrate for the first time that many of cellular pathways correlate with clinical pathologies following ZIKV infection such as microcephaly, congenital nervous

Eigenvalues and capacitors. Let X be a Riemannian manifold and be the Laplace operator on X. It is well-known that if X is compact then the spectrum of is discrete and consists of an increasing sequence {k} k= 1 of the eigenvalues (counted with the multiplicities) where 1= 0 and k as k. Moreover, if n= dim X then Weyls asymptotic formula says that (1.1) k cn