We described the information transfer and communication activities of nurse coordinators (NCO), who lead patient flow management in a major trauma center. A field study was conducted to identify information sources and information tools used, leading purposes of communication, and the information types NCOs need for patient flow management. In addition to verbal communication, NCOs frequently u...

During meiosis, homologous chromosomes (homologs) undergo recombinational interactions, resulting in the formation of crossovers (COs) or noncrossovers (NCOs). Both COs and NCOs are initiated by the same event: programmed double-strand DNA breaks (DSBs), which occur preferentially at hotspots throughout the genome. COs contribute to the genetic diversity of gametes and are needed to promote pro...

We conjecture the existence of two new non-gravitational six-dimensional string theories, defined as the decoupling limit of NS5-branes in the background of critical electrical twoand three-form RR fields. These theories are spacetime non-commutative Little String Theories with open branes. The theory with (2, 0) supersymmetry has an open membrane in the spectrum and reduces to OM theory at low...

We investigate how the four-dimensional noncommutative open string/Yang-Mills theory behaves under a general non-perturbative quantum SL(2, Z) symmetry transformation. We discuss this by considering D3 branes in a constant background of axion, dilaton, and electric and magnetic fields (including both E ⊥ B and E||B cases) in the respective decoupling limit. We find that the value of axion, whet...

Recently,in a paper hep-th/0511197, it was found that non-commutative super Yang-Mills (NCSYM) theory with space-dependent noncommutativity can be formulated as a decoupling limit of open strings ending on D3-branes wrapping a Melvin universe supported by a flux of the NSNS B-field. Under S-duality, we show that this theory turns into a noncommutative open string (NCOS) theory with space-depend...

We discuss the properties of the bound state (F1, D1, D3) in IIB supergravity in three different scaling limits and the SL(2,Z) transformation of the resulting theories. In the simple decoupling limit with finite electric and magnetic components of NS B field, the worldvolume theory is the N=4 super Yang-Mills (SYM) and the supergravity dual is still the AdS5×S. In the large magnetic field limi...

Two dimensional Non-Commutative Open String (NCOS) theory, well-defined perturbatively, may also be studied at strong coupling and for large D-string charge by making use of the Holographic duality. We analyze the zero mode dynamics of a closed string in the appropriate background geometry and map the results onto a sector of strongly coupled NCOS dynamics. We find an elaborate classical pictur...

We discuss the properties of the bound state (F1, D1, D3) in IIB supergravity in three different scaling limits and the SL(2,Z) transformation of the resulting theories. In the simple decoupling limit with finite electric and magnetic components of NS B field, the worldvolume theory is the N=4 SYM and the supergravity dual is still the AdS5 × S. In the large magnetic field limit with finite ele...

We show that the NCOS (noncommutative open string) theories on torus T p (p ≤ 5) are U-dual to matrix theory on torus with electric flux background. Under U-duality, the number of D-branes and the number of units of electric flux get interchanged. Furthermore under the same U-duality the decoupling limit taken in the NCOS theory maps to the decoupling limit taken in the matrix theory, thus ensu...