1 Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation, Urology, Andrology and Kidney Transplantation Unit, University of Bari, Piazza G. Cesare 11, 70124 Bari, Italy 2 Department of Nephrology, Leiden University Medical Center, Albinusdreef 2, P.O. Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands 3 Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Unit, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of ...

Jupiter and Saturn have extended, nearly toroidal atmospheres composed of material ejected from their moons or rings. Here we suggest that similar atmospheres must exist around giant extrasolar planets and might be observable in a transit of the parent star. Observation of such an atmosphere would be a marker for the presence of orbiting debris in the form of rings or moons that might otherwise...

The Galileo spacecraft’s magnetometer data allowed for an understanding of the Galilean satellites’ internal magnetic fields. My objective was to learn the nature of these fields and see if they are consistent with geological and observational data by reviewing all relevant papers and seeking parallels or inconsistencies between them. The results show that Europa and Callisto have internal brin...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Quantification of myocardial area-at-risk after acute myocardial infarction has major clinical implications and can be determined by cardiovascular magnetic resonance. The Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation Myocardial Jeopardy Index (BARI) and Alberta Provincial Project for Outcome Assessment in Coronary Heart Disease (APPROACH) angiographic scores ha...

Tenuous dust clouds of Jupiter’s Galilean moons Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto have been detected with the in-situ dust detector on board the Galileo spacecraft. The majority of the dust particles have been sensed at altitudes below five radii of these lunar-sized satellites. We identify the particles in the dust clouds surrounding the moons by their impact direction, impact velocity, and ma...

v(x) = [N(N − 2)λ] [λ2 + |x− x0|2](N−2)/2 , with λ > 0, x0 ∈ R . If f is not the critical power, we are led to require particular growth conditions on the nonlinearity f . In fact, while in the “positive mass case” (namely when f (0) < 0) the natural functional setting is H(Ω) and we have suitable compact embeddings just assuming a subcritical behavior of Dipartimento di Matematica, Università ...

Angelo Mariano, Giorgio Parisi, 3, 4 and Saverio Pascazio 6 ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Strada Statale 7 Appia km 706, I-72100 Brindisi, Italy Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma “Sapienza”, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Roma, Italy Centre for Statistical Mechanics and Complexity (SMC), CNR-INFM, I-00185 Roma, Italy INF...

Donato Di Paola, Antonio Petitti, Alessandro Rizzo ∗ Institute of Intelligent Systems for Automation (ISSIA), National Research Council (CNR), 70126 Bari, Italy; Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e dell’ Informazione (DEI), Politecnico di Bari, 70126 Bari, Italy Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering, Six MetroTech Center, Br...

We investigate the long-term dynamical stability of hypothetical moons orbiting extrasolar giant planets. Stellar tides brake a planet’s rotation and, together with tidal migration, act to remove satellites; this process limits the lifetimes of larger moons in extrasolar planetary systems. Because more massive satellites are removed more quickly than less massive ones, we are able to derive an ...