We present a local gluing construction for general relativistic initial data sets. The method applies to generic initial data, in a sense which is made precise. In particular the trace of the extrinsic curvature is not assumed to be constant near the gluing points, which was the case for previous such constructions. No global conditions on the initial data sets such as compactness, completeness...

1. Department of Microbiology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University, Mangalore, India. Address to: Dr. Chetan Mandelia. 404, Main Block, KMC Men’s Hostel, Kaprigudda, Mangalore, Karnataka, India. Phone: 91 984 550-8568 e-mail: [email protected] Received in 23/10/2011 Accepted in 19/01/2012 Antibiotic sensitivity pattern of community associated-methicillin resistant Staphylococcus...

This study investigates the connections between atmospheric sulphuric acid and new particle formation during QUEST III and BACCI/QUEST IV campaigns. The campaigns have been conducted in Heidelberg (2004) and Hyytiälä (2005), the first representing a polluted site surrounded by deciduous forest, and the second a rural site in a boreal forest environment. We have studied the role of sulphuric aci...

Simulations of the kinetic friction due to a layer of adsorbed molecules between two crystalline surfaces are presented. The adsorbed layer naturally produces friction that is consistent with Amontons’ laws and insensitive to parameters that are not controlled in experiments. The kinetic friction rises logarithmically with velocity as in many experimental systems. Variations with potential para...

Density functional theory (DFT) provides a formally exact framework for performing embedded subsystem electronic structure calculations, including DFT-in-DFT and wavefunction theory-in-DFT descriptions. In the interest of efficiency, it is desirable to truncate the atomic orbital basis set in which the subsystem calculation is performed, thus avoiding high-order scaling with respect to the size...

Motivated by an application in cell biology, we consider spatial sorting processes defined by particles moving from an initial to a final configuration. We describe an algorithm for constructing a cell complex in space-time, called the medusa, that measures topological properties of the sorting process. The algorithm requires an extension of the kinetic data structures framework from Delaunay t...

Caicedo, X., Compactness and normality in abstract logics, Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 59 (1993) 33-43. We generalize a theorem of Mundici relating compactness of a regular logic L to a strong form of normality of the associated spaces of models. Moreover, it is shown that compactness is in fact equivalent to ordinary normality of the model spaces when L has uniform reduction for infinite ...

We present two models in which a family investor differs from a non-family investor only in that she has an altruistic relationship with the entrepreneur who seeks financing. We show that because of this single difference, family finance is a source of trust capital whereas formal finance is a source of risk capital. Both deepen the financial market. Family finance has two drawbacks: Risk remai...

Over the last 40 years, starting from being nowhere, Biopharmaceutical drugs have come to occupy a dominant presence in the list of top ten selling drugs globally. Today, worldwide biopharmaceutical revenues are estimated at USD 288 billion, or 23 % of global pharmaceutical industry revenues, and comprise seven of the top ten list of drugs (Table 1). Many of these drugs, particularly monoclonal...

Q2MM is a method designed to allow application of molecular mechanics calculations to transition states in chemical reactions. It is one of the few methods available that allow determination of a complete set of low-energy transition states for medium-sized systems, and thereby gives a unique opportunity to investigate kinetic selectivity, in particular stereoselectivity. The current review wil...