We consider the six-vertex model with anti-periodic boundary conditions across a finite strip. The row-to-row transfer matrix is diagonalised by the ‘commuting transfer matrices’ method. From the exact solution we obtain an independent derivation of the interfacial tension of the six-vertex model in the anti-ferroelectric phase. The nature of the corresponding integrable boundary condition on t...

doi: 10.1007/s12519-012-0352-6 ©Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, China and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012. All rights reserved. Background: Many studies have shown an association between the risk of increased recurrent respiratory infections and socioeconomic and fostering factors, but often only a few risk factors have been studied. This study aimed to ident...

1 IFCWS, Indian Institute of Science, Department of Civil Engineering, 560 012 Bangalore, India. e-mail: [email protected] (IRD-UR 154, UMR 5563). 2 Laboratoire Chimie et Environnement, Case 29 Université de Provence (Aix-Marseille I), 3 Place Victor Hugo 13331 Marseille Cedex 03, France. 3ENSA-INRA, Unité de Sciences du Sol et d’Agronomie de Rennes /Quimper, 65 rue de St Brieuc, 350...

We show that, up to renaming of the letters, the only infinite ternary words avoiding the formulaABCAB.ABCBA.ACB.BAC (resp. ABCA.BCAB.BCB.CBA) have the same set of recurrent factors as the fixed point of 0 7→ 012, 1 7→ 02, 2 7→ 1. Also, we show that the formula ABAC.BACA.ABCA is 2-avoidable. Finally, we show that the pattern ABACADABCA is unavoidable for the class of C4-minor-free graphs with m...

Let Z be the set of all integers and M a set of positive integers. The distance graph G(Z,M) generated by M is the graph with vertex set Z and in which i and j are adjacent whenever |i − j| ∈ M . Supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grant DMS 9805945. Supported in part by the National Science Council, R. O. C., under grant NSC892115-M-110-012.

V. KUMARAN Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560 012, India. in viscoelastic fluids could be very different from that in simple fluids. In addition to the early, transition and late. stage growth, there is an intermediate stage where the scaling laws are different from those predicted by current theories of spinodal decomposition. Viscoelastic effects h...

The antioxidant and macrophage-stimulating activities of polyguluronic acid (PG) and polymannuronic acid (PM) prepared from alginate were examined. A chemiluminescence (CL) method using a luminol analog, L-012, showed that both PM and PG scavenge superoxide produced by hypoxanthine-xanthine oxidase system in a concentration-dependent manner. At 100 μg/ml, PG showed slightly stronger superoxide ...

Cycle Ti:Sapphire Lasers by Li-Jin Chen B.S., Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, 2003 M.S., Electro-Optical Engineering, National Taiwan University, 2005 Submitted to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering at the MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOG...

2014;113:1383–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00436-014-3778-z 9. Mulec J, Vaupotič J, Walochnik J. Prokaryotic and eukaryotic airborne microorganisms as tracers of microclimatic changes in the underground (Postojna Cave, Slovenia). Microb Ecol. 2012;64:654–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00248-012-0059-1 10. Tamura K, Peterson D, Stecher G, Nei M, Kumar S. MEGA5: molecular evolutionary genetics a...

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