We study the quark number susceptibility, an indicator of QCD phase transition, in the hard wall and soft wall models of hQCD. We find that the susceptibilities in both models are the same, jumping up at the deconfinement phase transition temperature. We also find that the diffusion constant in the soft wall model is enhanced compared to the one in the hard wall model.

We retrospectively identified 9 consecutive children, 3 males and 6 females (age 5.2 ± 6.3 years, range 1 day to 18 years), with known or suspected AVGs who underwent MR imaging, including SWI, at our institution between January 2007 and March 2011. On the SWI sequence, arterialized blood flow was considered to be present in the vein of Galen or its tributaries when these showed abnormal signal...

Diatheses Vulnerability factors that increase the stressfulness and negative consequences of life events. Difficulties Ongoing stressful situations that persist for at least 3 months. Independence The degree to which a person’s behavior or characteristics might have brought about a stressful life event. Matching events Acute major negative events that arise from or are thematically related to o...

We calculate the spectra and spin susceptibilities of a Hubbard model with two bands having different bandwidths but the same on-site interaction, with parameters close to the orbital-selective Mott transition, using dynamical mean-field theory. If the Hund's rule coupling is sufficiently strong, one common energy scale emerges which characterizes both the location of kinks in the self-energy a...

Among a total of 890 women from 2 separate nonclinical samples (1 collected in 1982 on college undergraduates, n = 435, and 1 collected in 1992 on women who were in college in 1982, n = 455), the authors tested a diathesis-stress model of the interrelations of perfectionism, perceived weight status, and bulimic symptoms. The authors predicted and found that perfectionism served as a risk factor...

Series expansions in powers of the concentration p for elastic and other susceptibilities of randomly diluted elastic networks have been generated for a bond-bending model on a honeycomb lattice up to 13th order, and for the central-force model on a triangular lattice up to 22nd order, in p. Critical exponents for both models and the critical threshold of the central-force problem have been est...

A rapid method of microbial susceptibility testing is described. Bacterial growth is measured by determining the incorporation of (14)C-tryptophan into cellular protein in the presence of antimicrobial drugs.

Assessment of ecoenvironmental vulnerability plays an important role in the guidance of regional planning, the construction and protection of ecological environment, which requires comprehensive consideration on regional resources, environment, ecology, society and other factors. Based on the driving mechanism and evolution characteristics of ecoenvironmental vulnerability in cold and arid regi...

Increased use of rifampicin for in-patients was noted after the laboratory began reporting rifampicin susceptibilities routinely for all Gram-positive bacterial isolates. The appropriateness of rifampicin use was evaluated by chart review for in-patients administered rifampicin during two time periods, before and during routine rifampicin susceptibility reporting, respectively. While rifampicin...

OBJECTIVES The present study examined the extent to which daily stressor severity and appraisals of the stressors accounted for socioeconomic disparities in health. METHODS Data from the National Study of Daily Experiences and the Midlife in the United States Survey were combined for the current analyses, resulting in 1,031 respondents who reported on 7,229 days. RESULTS Respondents without...