In a survey of rumen contents from 814 adult Indian cattle (Bos indicus) Eudiplodinium giganium and Eudiplodinium bubalus was observed. The body dimensions and variations of characters recorded from the specimens taken (n=50) at random from different slides and compared to those previously reported for other animal hosts living in different geographical locations. This study reports for the fir...

Exploiting stochastic path-integral theory, we obtain by simulation substantial gains in efficiency for the computation of reaction rates in one-dimensional, bistable, overdamped stochastic systems. Using a well-defined measure of efficiency, we compare implementations of "dynamic importance sampling" (DIMS) methods to unbiased simulation. The best DIMS algorithms are shown to increase efficien...

The dynamical system (f,R) is introduced and some of its properties are investigated. It is proven that there is an invariant set Λ on which the periodic points of f are dense.

Given P and P ′, equally sized planar point sets in general position, we call a bijection from P to P ′ crossing-preserving if crossings of connecting segments in P are preserved in P ′ (extra crossings may occur in P ′). If such a mapping exists, we say that P ′ crossing-dominates P , and if such a mapping exists in both directions, P and P ′ are called crossing-equivalent. The relation is tra...

We apply a derivative expansion to the Legendre effective action flow equations of O(N) symmetric scalar field theory, making no other approximation. We calculate the critical exponents η, ν, and ω at the both the leading and second order of the expansion, associated to the three dimensional Wilson-Fisher fixed points, at various values of N . In addition, we show how the derivative expansion r...

For the single-wall carbon nanotubes conducting in the simplest tight binding model, the complete set of line group symmetry based quantum numbers for the bands crossing at Fermi level are given. Besides linear (k), helical (k̃ and angular momenta, emerging from roto-translational symmetries, the parities of U axis and (in the zig-zag and armchair cases only) mirror planes appear in the assignat...

A first-derivative spectrophotometric method for the simultaneous determination of piroxicam (PX) and its major metabolite 5'-hydroxypiroxicam (OH PX) in human plasma is described. The method consists of direct extraction of the two drugs from the plasma samples with hydrochloric and trichloroacetic acid prior to their determination by measuring the first-derivative signals at 337.0 nm for PX a...

The unsteady hydro-magnetic free convection flow with heat transfer of a linearly viscous, incompressible, electrically conducting fluid near a moving vertical plate with the constant heat is investigated. The flow domain is the porous half-space and a magnetic field of a variable direction is applied. The Caputo time-fractional derivative is employed in order to introduce a thermal flux consti...