The notion of a bead metric space is defined as a nice generalization of the uniformly convex normed space such as $CAT(0)$ space, where the curvature is bounded from above by zero. In fact, the bead spaces themselves can be considered in particular as natural extensions of convex sets in uniformly convex spaces and normed bead spaces are identical with uniformly convex spaces. In this paper, w...

In contemporary academia, education is often perceived as a supplement to an academic career or tool satisfy management through course evaluations and this can alienate academics from teaching. To create inspiration deepen the understanding of teachers’ alienation well disalienation in classroom, we draw on Hermann Hesse’s last novel ‘The Glass Bead Game’. The story Joseph Knecht who escapes el...

introduction: nausea and vomiting after ear, nose and throat (ent) surgery is one of the most common and notable problems facing anesthesiologists in this area. this study was conducted to determine the effect of a pharyngeal pack on the severity of nausea, vomiting, and sore throat among patients after ear, pharynx, and throat surgeries.   materials and methods: this randomized clinical study ...

Methods of rapidly extracting chromosomal DNA from human pathogenic yeasts were used in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) studies. This paper is concerned with rapid and reliable methods of extracting mtDNA for sequence analysis for species or strain identification, and epidemiological study of medically important fungi and fungal infections. To determine the optimal method of mtDNA extraction without ...

The dynamics of structural relaxation in a model polymer glass subject to spatially homogeneous, time-periodic shear deformation is investigated using molecular dynamics simulations. We study a coarse-grained bead-spring model of short polymer chains below the glass transition temperature. It is found that at small strain amplitudes, the segmental dynamics is nearly reversible over about 10^{4}...

probe. Retention of the probe on the dialysis bag using the electroelution protocol and inefficient binding of the probe to glass beads (as seen with ds DNA below 0.5 kb in size) contribute to probe losses. Since the ss probe does not need to be purified from the LMP agarose gel, loss of the probe associated with the two established protocols described here (particularly with the glass bead pro...

Observations are reported for Dysidea avara sponges where once functioning oscula (outlets) are converted through internal re-plumbing into functioning oversized ostia (OSO; inlets). Flow tank studies employed high-speed photography and particle tracking of laser-illuminated 0.5-6.0 microm diameter glass beads to trace particles streaming into OSO. A fluorescein dye/glass bead uptake experiment...