In this note, we give a refinement of the growth factor in Gaussian elimination for accretive-dissipative matrix A which is due to Lin [Calcolo, 2013, DOI 10.1007/s10092-013-0089-1].

In September 2013 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published its Working Group 1 report, the first comprehensive assessment of physical climate science in six years, constituting a critical event in the societal debate about climate change. This paper analyses the nature of this debate in one public forum: Twitter. Using statistical methods, tweets were analyzed to discover the has...

The Neotropical genus Costitachys Erwin 1974 is revised. Newly discovered specimens of a new species of Costitachys from Ecuador provide comparative genitalic characters of males for the genus and extend its range 2900 km west of its previously known distribution into an additional center of species radiation in South America, the "North Andean Slope." A new species, Costitachys tena Erwin and ...

013 Introduction Need for accurate psychological assessment in the field of mental health has been important and well recognized for various reasons and one of them is be t te r conceptualization of the patients for correct diagnosis and their management. In the evolution of psychological tests, there are many which have been proving them effective for this purpose. One of such tests is Rorscha...

Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) nanoparticles were studied as drug delivery vehicles for calcitriol, the active form of vitamin D3. In vitro effects of calcitriol encapsulated in PLGA nanoparticles were evaluated with respect to free calcitriol on human pancreatic cell lines, S2-013 and hTERT-HPNE, and the lung cancer cell line A549. Encapsulated calcitriol retained its biological activity...