Title: Natural history of Mycobacterium fortuitum pulmonary infection presenting with migratory infiltrates: A case report with microbiological analysis Authors: Satoshi Okamori ([email protected]) Takanori Asakura ([email protected]) Tomoyasu Nishimura ([email protected]) Eiko Tamizu ([email protected]) Makoto Ishii ([email protected]) Mitsunori Yoshida ([email protected]) ...

We find, from the toric description of the moduli space of D3–branes on non-compact six-dimensional singularities C/Z3 and C/Z5 in the blown-down limit, the four-dimensional bases on which these singular spaces are complex cones, and prove the existence of Kähler–Einstein metrics on these four-dimensional bases. This shows, in particular, that one can use the horizons obtained from these base s...

We consider tt∗ equations appearing in the study of localized tachyon condensations. They are described by various Toda system when we consider the condensation by the lowest tachyon corresponding to the monomial xy. The tachyon potential is calculated as a solution to these equations. The Toda system appearing in the deformation of C/Zn by xy is identical to that of Dn singularity deformed by ...

We adapt a construction for R-sequencings to give new terraces for abelian groups. This enables the construction of terraces for all groups of the form Z2×Zt where k ≥ 4 and t > 5 is odd. We also present an extendable terrace for Z2 × Z5. When combined with known results this shows that any abelian counterexample to Bailey’s Conjecture (which asserts that all groups except the elementary abelia...

(a) First realize that [8] = [3] in Z5. Take different powers of [8] until we arrive at [8] = [1]. This will help us to significantly simplify [8]. [8] = [3] = [9] = [4]; [8] = [8][8] = [8][4] = [3][4] = [2]; [8] = [8][8] = [2][3] = [1]. Hence [8] = [1]. Now 391 = (97) · 4 + 3. Thus [8] = [8](97)·4+3 = [8](97)·4[8]3 = ([8])[8] = [1][8] = [8] = [2]. Therefore the remainder when 8 is divided by 5...

We present measurements of the fractal dimensions associated to the spin clusters for Z4 and Z5 spin models. We also attempted to measure similar fractal dimensions for the generalised Fortuin Kastelyn (FK) clusters in these models but we discovered that these clusters do not percolate at the critical point of the model under consideration. These results clearly mark a difference in the behavio...

zucchini yellow mosaic virus (zymv) is a potyvirus with a worldwide distribution. this virus causes serious economic losses in iran in many cucurbits. during 2002-2003, sam-ples were collected from squash fields in tehran province. five isolates (z1, z2, z3, z4 and z5) were inoculated on 27 species of cucurbitaceae, chenopodiaceae, amarantha-ceae,solanacae, leguminosae and ranunculaceae. chenop...

Alcohol ethoxylates (AE) are a major component of the surfactant stream discharged into surface water. The "central fission" of AE with the formation of poly(ethylene glycols) (PEG) is considered to be the dominant biodegradation pathway. However, information as to which bacterial strains are able to perform this reaction is very limited. The aim of this work was to establish whether such an ab...