Şahin Kaya Özdemir, Adam Miranowicz, Masato Koashi, and Nobuyuki Imoto (a) CREST Research Team for Interacting Carrier Electronics, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKEN-DAI), Hayama, Kanagawa 240-0193, Japan (b) Nonlinear Optics Division, Institute of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, 61-614 Poznań, Poland (c) NTT Basic Research Laboratories, 3-1 Morinosato Wakamiya, Atsugi, K...

PurposeTraditionally, after procurement, donor hearts are cooled with ice during transport to the transplant center. However, this can lead uneven cooling and result in tissue injury, which may affect subsequent allograft function. The utilization of a hypothermic preservation system (SherpaPak, Paragonix) results controlled uniform cooling. This approach enable longer-distance procurements bet...

The shifted 1/N expansion technique (SLNT), used by El-Said (Phys. Rev. B 61, 13026 (2000)), to study the relative Hamiltonian of two interacting electrons confined in quantum dot, is investigated. It turned out that El-Said’s results from SLNT are unreliable and they are revised in this comment.

a Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 20 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA b Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California Davis, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA c Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964, USA d Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, New...

spherical polyhedron S = (V, F ;E): For a 2-connected planar graph GS = (V,ES), embedded on a sphere (or in the plane), we record the vertices as V and the regions as faces F , and rewrite the directed edges E as ordered 4-tuples e = 〈h, i; j, k〉, where the edge from vertex h to vertex i has face j on the right and face k on the left. (The reversed edge −e = 〈i, h; k, j〉 runs from i to h, with ...

introduction: antibiotic- associated diarrhea is a common problem in pediatric population. there is growing interest in probiotics, probiotics and synbiotics for prevention of this complication because of their worldwide availability as dietary supplements. the aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of a synbiotic mixture in prevention of antibiotic- associated diarrhea.   materials and m...