visceral leishmaniasis or kala azar is endemic in certain regions of india. in endemic areas, the con-stellation of fever, progressive weight loss, weakness, pronounced splenomegaly, anemia, leukopenia, and hypergammaglobulinemia is highly suggestive of visceral leishmaniasis. demonstration of the parasite in liver, splenic or bone marrow aspirates is confirmatory. we present a case in which le...

Deammonification represents a short-cut in the N-metabolism pathway and comprises 2 steps: about half the amount of ammonia is oxidised to nitrite and then residual ammonia and nitrite is anaerobically transformed to elementary nitrogen. Implementation of the pH-controlled DEMON process for deammonification of reject water in a single-sludge SBR system at the WWTP Strass (Austria) contributed e...

The New Evil Demon Problem presents a serious challenge to externalist theories of epistemic justification. In recent years, externalists have developed number strategies for responding the problem. A popular line response involves distinguishing between belief’s being epistemically justified and subject’s blameless holding it. apparently problematic intuitions elicits, proponents this claim, t...

Deformable (elastic/non-rigid) image frames from sequences of the human thorax acquired for a subject during the process of breathing from three APs (Anatomical Positions) is registered. The images up for registration are modeled after tangible physically deformable objects. All the image elements are selected as Maxwell’s ‘demons’. The periphery of these images is considered to be deforming as...

We propose a setup based on two coupled quantum dots where thermodynamics of a measurement can be quantitatively characterized. The information obtained in the measurement can be utilized by performing feedback in a manner apparently breaking the second law of thermodynamics. In this way the setup can be operated as a Maxwell's demon, where both the measurement and feedback are performed separa...

Grand canonical molecular dynamics (GCMD) is applied to the nucleation process in a metastable phase near the spinodal, where nucleation occurs almost instantaneously and is limited to a very short time interval. With a variant of Maxwell's demon, proposed by McDonald [Am. J. Phys. 31, 31 (1963)], all nuclei exceeding a specified size are removed. In such a steady-state simulation, the nucleati...