We have developed a compact disc (CD)-shaped microfluidic device for multiple, rapid enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA). The device has a versatile design that can be adapted for the detection of various proteins by selecting the push-in-type reaction parts and appropriate reagents for each target. In this paper, we report the rapid quantification of insulin, adiponectin, and leptin, wh...

We have obtained for the rst time 2.10{2.45 micron infrared spectra of the soft X-ray transient V404 Cygni. We determine a 95 percent conndence upper limit to the fraction of light arising from the accretion disc of 14 percent. The eeect this has on the mass of the compact object, determined from modelling the infrared ellipsoidal variations, is to reduce its mass to at most 10 M .

The luminous blue variable η Carinae is almost certainly a double star: a hot secondary in an eccentric orbit around a massive primary. Radio observations with the Australia Telescope Compact Array at a wavelength of 3 cm, covering the period from 1992 to 2002, suggest that at the time of last periastron, 1998.0, material was tidally lifted from the primary star into its equatorial disc.

In this paper we investigate composition operators induced on the Dirichlet space by linear fractional maps. We characterize the essential normality in this setting, obtain conditions for the linear fractional symbols φ and ψ of the unit disc for which CφC∗ ψ or C ∗ ψCφ is compact, and investigate the shape of the numerical range for linear fractional composition operators induced on the Dirich...

This document describes the implementation of the EAR Early Warning System for Internet-Based Cyber-Attacks. The deliverable is accompanied by a Compact Disc containing the relevant source code. Contractual Date of Delivery 12 May 2005 Actual Date of Delivery 12 May 2005 Deliverable Security Class Public Editor Periklis Akritidis The EAR Consortium consists of: FORTH Coordinator Greece GA Tech ...

This theorem is false if e ^ 0. Indeed, on the unit disc, the Kâhler metric (1 — zz)~dzdz (where n is any integer ^ 3) is complete and its curvature function K satisfies K < 0 and \K(z)\ S C(d(0, z))~. (0 = origin ofC.) The next theorem and its corollary provide information about the absence of holomorphic p-forms (p ^ 1) when the manifold is positively curved. For compact M, the result was kno...