Color diffusion in a classical fluid composed of two species differing only by color is intimately connected with the asymptotic behavior of trajectories of test particles in the equilibrium system. We investigate here such behavior in a one-dimensional system of "hard" points with density p and velocities _ 1. Colliding particles reflect each other with probability p and pass through each othe...

Jump height is a critical aspect of volleyball players' blocking and attacking performance. Although previous studies demonstrated that creatine monohydrate supplementation (CrMS) improves jumping performance, none have yet evaluated its effect among volleyball players with proficient jumping skills. We examined the effect of 4 wk of CrMS on 1 RM spike jump (SJ) and repeated block jump (BJ) per...

AKL(FD) is an integration of (an extension of) the nite domain constraint system FD in AKL, a deep concurrent constraint programming language CJH94]. In this paper we describe the implementation of the FD solver and its adaptation to the generic constraint interface of the AGENTS implementation of AKL. We also describe compilation techniques used by the AKL(FD) compiler. 1 Introduction Conceptu...

THE 4 ORIGINAL PAPERS ARE 1. Hasselbalch BJ, Knorr U, Kessing LV. Cognitive impairment in the remitted state of unipolar depressive disorder: a systematic review. J Affect Disord 2010 Dec;134(1-3):20-31. 2. Hasselbalch BJ, Knorr U, Hasselbalch SG, Gade A, Kessing LV. The cumulative load of depressive illness is associated with cognitive function in the remitted state of unipolar depressive diso...

As a practical and safe herbal medicine, the seeds of Brucea javanica (L.) Merr., were used to cure patients suffering from infectious diseases such as malaria. Recent advances revealed that the herb could also be a useful cancer therapy agent. The study demonstrated that aqueous B. javanica (BJ) extract attenuated the growth of human non-small-lung cancer cells bearing mutant L858R/T790M epide...

Optical variability in galaxies at high redshift is a tracer of evolution in AGN activity, and should provide a useful constraint on models of galaxy evolution, AGN structure, and cosmology. We studied optical variability in multiple deep CCD and photographic surveys of blank fields for galaxies with Bj = 20− 25 mag. Weakly variable objects are far more common than strongly variable ones. For o...

and Applied Analysis 3 2. Preliminaries Let E be a real Banach space with dual space E∗. When {xn} is a sequence in E, we denote strong convergence of {xn} to x ∈ E by xn → x and weak convergence by xn ⇀ x, respectively. As usual, we denote the duality pairing of E∗ by 〈x, x∗〉, when x∗ ∈ E∗ and x ∈ E, and the closed unit ball by UE, and denote by R and N the set of all real numbers and the set ...

BACKGROUND Animal neurotoxin peptides are valuable probes for investigating ion channel structure/function relationships and represent lead compounds for novel therapeutics and insecticides. However, misfolding and aggregation are common outcomes when toxins containing multiple disulfides are expressed in bacteria. METHODS The β-scorpion peptide toxin Bj-xtrIT from Hottentotta judaica and fou...

In this, the second in a series of three papers concerning the SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey, we describe the methods for image detection, parameterisation, classification and photometry. We demonstrate the internal and external accuracy of our object parameters. Using examples from the first release of data, the South Galactic Cap survey, we show that our image detection completeness is close to 100%...