We compare models of line-driven winds from accretion discs and single spherical stars. We look at the problem of scaling mass-loss rates and velocities of stellar and disc winds with model parameters. We find that stellar and disc winds driven by radiation, within the CAK framework, are very similar as far as mass-loss rates and velocities are concerned. Thus we can use analytic results for st...

BACKGROUND Resistance to carbapenems is developing around the world and can cause many problems for treatment of patients. Production of metallo-beta-lactamase (MBL) is one of the main mechanism for this type of resistance. So, detection of MBL-producer microorganisms can prevent the spread of this type of resistance. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this study 94 Acinetobacter spp. were investigated...

An accretion disc around a compact star in a close binary star system is an ubiquitous and essential object. Accretion discs play, for example, important roles in cataclysmic variables, nova and X-ray sources. The standard theory to explain the physics in accretion discs is the α-disc model proposed by Shakura and Sunyaev (1973). In this theory, the accretion disc is in some kind of turbulent s...

We introduce a finite dimensional matrix model approximation to the algebra of functions on a disc based on noncommutative geometry. The algebra is a subalgebra of the one characterizing the noncommutative plane with a * product and depends on two parameters N and θ. It is composed of functions which decay exponentially outside a disc. In the limit in which the size of the matrices goes to infi...

Word recognition norms were determined for the Northwestern University Auditory Test No. 6 (NU-6) released on the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Disc 1.1. Word recognition performance (in quiet and in competing message) was measured at 12 presentation levels for 24 young adults with normal hearing. Test-retest reliability also was evaluated. Word recognition scores for VA Disc 1.1 were gen...

We present a randomized one-round, single-bit messages, distributed algorithm for the maximum independent set problem in polynomially bounded-independence graphs with poly-logarithmic approximation factor. Bounded-independence graphs capture various models of wireless networks such as the unit disc graphs model or the quasi unit disc graphs model. For instance, on unit disc graphs, our achieved...

Background and objectives: Halo interference around antibiogram disc is one of the problems seen in Agar media. This study aimed at applying graded plate method to reduce this problem. Material and Methods: Forty-eight millimeter plates, before putting disc, were graded and the location of discs was determined. Instead of full disc, we used half-disc and then compared the haloe interference, ba...

This paper is concerned with approximation properties of linear combinations of scattered translates of the thin-plate spline radial basis function | · | log | · | where the translates are taken in the unit disc D in R. We show that the Lp approximation order for this kind of approximation is 2+1/p (for sufficiently smooth functions), which matches Johnson’s upper bound and, thus, gives the sat...

A commercial disc diffusion test has been evaluated as a screening method for the detection of Candida species with decreased susceptibility to fluconazole. A total of 1,407 Candida strains of different species were tested, and the results were compared with the MIC results. The recently published National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards breakpoint criteria have been used. Isolates ...

BACKGROUND Previous research has not compared the psychometric properties of diagnostic interviews of community samples and clinically referred subjects within a single study. As part of a multisite cooperative agreement study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, 97 families with clinically referred children and 278 families identified through community sampling procedures partici...