2014 Dynamic quantities are computed near the transition from the columnar to the crystalline phase. The enhancement from order parameter fluctuations of the viscosities 03BD1 and 03BD3 is found to be proportional to the first power of the correlation length. We briefly describe how the 03C9-1/2 divergence of viscosities predicted in the columnar phase by Ramaswamy and Toner is suppressed near ...

BACKGROUND Radical prostatectomy (RP) is most commonly performed laparoscopically with a robot (robotic-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy, R/PROST). Hysterectomy, which may be open hysterectomy (O/HYST) or laparoscopic hysterectomy (L/HYST), has been increasingly frequently done via robot (R/HYST). Small case series suggest increased corneal abrasions (CAs) with less invasive techniqu...

BACKGROUND A scoring system has been developed to determine preimplantation embryo quality, and used to select embryos for transfer into the uterus of patients. METHODS AND RESULTS The system was used to study early embryo development and to test whether these scores alone can accurately predict IVF outcome. Following zygote and embryo scores through early development, the data showed that a ...

Malformations of fetal rat eyes result from a variety of maternal vitamin deficiencies employed either transiently or continuously during pregnancy. Thus, eye defects have been produced in rat fetuses as a result of maternal deficiencies of vitamin A (Wilson, Jordan & Brent, 1953), pantothenic acid (LefebvresBoisselot, 1951; Nelson, Asling & Evans, 1957), niacin (Chamberlain & Nelson, 1963) and...

We tackle the problem of data-structure rewriting including global and local pointerredirections. Each basic rewrite step may perform three kinds of actions: (i) Localredirection, the aim of which is to redirect specific pointers determined by meansof a pattern ; (ii) Replacement, that may add new information to data-structures ;(iii) Global redirection, which is aimed at redire...

2014 Within the general framework of Landau-de Gennes theory for nematic liquid crystals it is shown that the difference of flexoelectric coefficients e* = e1 e3 ~ S2, where S is the nematic order parameter. This result agrees with the molecular theory but is in contradiction with recent measurements of the constant e* which yield e* ~ S. The contradiction can be resolved by the inclusion of co...

Volume-of-fluid (VOF) methods are popular for the direct numerical simulation of time-dependent viscous incompressible flow of multiple liquids. As in any numerical method, however, it has its weaknesses, namely, for flows in which the capillary force is the dominant physical mechanism. The lack of convergence with spatial refinement, or convergence to a solution that is slightly different from...

In an effort to clear persistent HIV infection and achieve a durable therapy-free remission of HIV disease, extensive pre-clinical studies and early pilot clinical trials are underway to develop and test agents that can reverse latent HIV infection and present viral antigen to the immune system for clearance. It is, therefore, critical to understand the impact of latency-reversing agents (LRAs)...

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