background: superficial mycoses are common all around the world and the incidence continues increasingly. the aim of this study was to determine the epidemiological indices of tinea pedis  in patient who referred to medical mycology lab of kermanshah  university  of medical sciences during 1993-2010. methods: a total of 2874 patients who had admitted for foot lesion from 1993 to 2010 were inclu...

In this paper we investigate the recently found γ-deformed Maldacena-Nunez background by studying the behavior of different semiclassical string configurations. This background is conjectured to be dual to dipole deformations of N = 1 SYM. We compare our results to those in the pure Maldacena-Nunez background and show that the energies of our string configurations are higher than in the undefor...

We derive the general equations of motion for a braneworld containing a (localized) domain wall. Euclideanization gives the geometry for braneworld false vacuum decay. We explicitly derive these instantons and compute the amplitude for false vacuum decay. We also show how to construct a toy ekpyrotic instanton. Finally, we comment on braneworlds with a compact spatial direction and the adS soli...

This is a summary of the work in the author’s recent paper with this title written with Jerome Gauntlett, George Papadopoulos and Paul Townsend, hep-th/97022012. We showed how to construct hyper-Kähler 8metrics in terms of arrangements of three-dimensional hyperplanes in six-dimensional euclidean space. The slopes of the planes define two relatively prime integers (p, q). Under reduction to ten...

We study string theory on the analytically continued β deformed background proposed in hep-th/0509036. This non-static model provides a solvable conformal field theory which describes time-dependent twisted string dynamics. With the mini-superspace approach, we examine disk one-point correlators of D-branes and compute winding string pair production rate. We find that these results are consiste...