Little information regarding the effectiveness of UV radiation on the inactivation of caliciviruses and enteric adenoviruses is available. Analysis of human calicivirus resistance to disinfectants is hampered by the lack of animal or cell culture methods that can determine the viruses' infectivity. The inactivation kinetics of enteric adenovirus type 40 (AD40), coliphage MS-2, and feline calici...

The present study is focused on the application of two families implicit time-integration schemes for general time-dependent balance laws convection-diffusion-reaction type discretized by a hybridized discontinuous Galerkin method in space, namely backward differentiation formulas (BDF) and diagonally Runge-Kutta (DIRK) methods. Special attention devoted to embedded DIRK methods, which allow in...

For the Landauâ??Lifshitzâ??Gilbert (LLG) equation of micromagnetics we study linearly implicit backward difference formula (BDF) time discretizations up to order $5$ combined with higher-order non-conforming finite element space discretizations, which are based on weak formulation due Alouges but use approximate tangent spaces that defined by $L^2$-averaged instead nodal orthogonality constrai...

In the last decades, the spread of psychotropic drugs belonging to the phenethylamine family has been continually on the rise [1,2]. These drugs are often synthesized illegally in underground laboratories or marketed via-internet by smart shops and chemicals research suppliers [1,3]. Recently, a phenethylamine-related compound named BromoDragonFly (BDF) has received large popularity among young...

Cyclosporin A (CsA) is an effective modulator of multidrug resistance (MDR) in vitro and in murine tumour systems in vivo. We now report the production of immunity to L1210 leukaemia by the addition of CsA to VP-16 therapy of leukaemic BDF/1 mice. VP-16/cyclosporin A tumour immunity induction arises as a consequence of active therapy independently of immunisation with modified tumour cells. The...

The second order Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE) system obtained after semidiscretizing the wavetype Partial Differential Equation (PDE) with the Finite Element Method (FEM), shows strong numerical stiffness. Although it can be integrated using Matlab ode-solvers, the function ode15s offered by Matlab for solving stiff ODE systems does not result very efficient as its resolution requires t...

In this paper, we extend a previous work on a compact scheme for the steady Navier Stokes equations [Li, Tang, and Fornberg (1995), Int. J. Numer. Methods Fluids, 20, 1137 1151] to the unsteady case. By exploiting the coupling relation between the streamfunction and vorticity equations, the Navier Stokes equations are discretized in space within a 3_3 stencil such that a fourth order accuracy i...

In this paper, a new learning method is proposed to build Support Vector Machines (SVMs) Binary Decision Functions (BDF) of reduced complexity and efficient generalization. The aim is to build a fast and efficient SVM classifier. A criterion is defined to evaluate the Decision Function Quality (DFQ) which blendes recognition rate and complexity of a BDF. Vector Quantization (VQ) is used to simp...

A study is presented on the topic of numerical efficiency of TD-FEM with the use of BDF. The BDF coefficients are calculated with the use of Lagrange polynomials. The paper also presents two strategies of time-step adaptation. The obtained numerical solutions have been compared with analytical solutions of the selected problems in order to check their accuracy. Streszczenie. Przedstawiono badan...