Two state-of-the-art computational approaches: quantum Monte Carlo and GW with exciton effects [GW-BSE (Bethe-Salpeter equation)] are employed to calculate ionization potentials, electron affinities, and first excited singlet and triplet energies for the silane and methane molecules. Results are in excellent agreement between these dramatically different approaches and with available experiment...

Inflationary gravitational waves (GW) contribute to the curl component in the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Cosmic shear--gravitational lensing of the CMB--converts a fraction of the dominant gradient polarization to the curl component. Higher-order correlations can be used to map the cosmic shear and subtract this contribution to the curl. Arcminute resolution will be ...

BACKGROUND Hemangioma is a common benign tumor in the liver and usually asymptomatic. Scanty evidence concerning treatment modality of symptomatic hemangioma during pregnancy exists. CASE A 35 year-old woman with giant hepatic cavernous hemangioma developed consumption coagulopathy due to the enlarged tumor, and underwent danaparoid therapy from 5 weeks of gestation (GW). Magnetic resonance i...

BACKGROUND Plasma concentrations of total homocysteine (tHcy) decrease during pregnancy. This reduction has been investigated in relation to folate status, but no study has addressed the possible role of betaine and its precursor choline. OBJECTIVE We investigated the courses of plasma choline and betaine during normal human pregnancy and their relations to plasma tHcy. DESIGN Blood samples...

BACKGROUND Australia provided free quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccines to 12-18-year-old girls and women aged ≤26 years from mid-2007 until the end of 2009. After this time, only girls aged 12-13 years had access to free vaccines. METHODS Before and after the study, of the proportion of new patients attending Melbourne Sexual Health Centre from mid-2004 to mid-2011, diagnosed with geni...

INTRODUCTION In the 25 years since the 1990-1991 Gulf War (GW), studies have evaluated Gulf War Illness (GWI), sometimes referred to as medically unexplained multi symptom illness, and other medical and neurological conditions in women GW veterans. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this article, we review epidemiologic studies of the health of women who served in the 1990-1991 GW based upon bibliograp...

Introduction: We report the serendipitous discovery of a small number of graphite whiskers (GWs), a rare polymorph of carbon, in a range of settings within several CV3 meteorites [1]. Currently accepted growth conditions for GWs indicate that this unusual phase requires that the parent mineralogy experienced high temperature processing in contact with a carbon-containing gas. Description of Gra...

On the basis of first-principles GW calculations, we study the quasiparticle properties of the guanine, adenine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil DNA and RNA nucleobases. Beyond standard G0W0 calculations, starting from Kohn-Sham eigenstates obtained with (semi)local functionals, a simple self-consistency on the eigenvalues allows to obtain vertical ionization energies and electron affinities with...