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STUDY ON MINIMUM INHIBITING CONCENTRATION OF ANTIBIOTICS TOWARDS STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS STRAINS ISOLATED FROM CLINICAL MATERIALS
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Oscillatory Solutions of Neutral Equations with Polynomial Nonlinearities
Existence uniqueness of an oscillatory solution for nonlinear neutral equations by fixed point method is proved
The Measurements of Calcification Rates in Reef Corals Using Radioisotope 45Ca at Pongok Sea, South Bangka
Coral reef ecosystem is one of the most important ecological systems in the Indonesian coastal zone. The aim of this study which was undertaken between August - October 2006, is to measure the calcification of corals in a reef coral in the Pongok Sea, South Bangka using 45Ca. The steps in conducting this study were surveying of the site, preparation, transplanting, incubation in the 45Ca - solution, and analysis of the coral fragments. The results showed that at the depth of 5 m different counts per minute (cpm) trend occurred. For the samples taken from the transplantation of the Artificial Colony (Ac) the cpm showed that with the progress of time the cpm declined, reaching its lowest cpm at 5 hours after retransplanting of the coral fragments. On the other hand the samples obtained from the natural (Nc) colony showed that the cpm increased with time progress. At the 10 m depth where only the coral fragment of the natural colony (Nc) was observed a different pattern showed up. Here with the progress of time up to 3 hours the cpm increased and after that it declined to reach a low cpm at 5 hours of observation. The cpm values were then transformed to disintegrations per minute (dpm), μCi and at the end to 45Ca content. The same trend is shown for dpm, μCi/0.5 g sample and μg Ca/0.5 g sample. The 45Ca content (μg/0.5g sample) were used to show the calcification rates of coral fragments. It showed clearly that 45Ca could be used to calculate the magnitude of calcification. Received: 08 December 2009; Revised: 05 April 2011; Accepted: 05 April 201
The Measurements of Calcification Rates in Reef Corals Using Radioisotope 45Ca at Pongok Sea, South Bangka
Coral reef ecosystem is one of the most important ecological systems in the Indonesian coastal zone. The aim of this study which was undertaken between August - October 2006, is to measure the calcification of corals in a reef coral in the Pongok Sea, South Bangka using 45Ca. The steps in conducting this study were surveying of the site, preparation, transplanting, incubation in the 45Ca - solution, and analysis of the coral fragments. The results showed that at the depth of 5 m different counts per minute (cpm) trend occurred. For the samples taken from the transplantation of the Artificial Colony (Ac) the cpm showed that with the progress of time the cpm declined, reaching its lowest cpm at 5 hours after retransplanting of the coral fragments. On the other hand the samples obtained from the natural (Nc) colony showed that the cpm increased with time progress. At the 10 m depth where only the coral fragment of the natural colony (Nc) was observed a different pattern showed up. Here with the progress of time up to 3 hours the cpm increased and after that it declined to reach a low cpm at 5 hours of observation. The cpm values were then transformed to disintegrations per minute (dpm), μCi and at the end to 45Ca content. The same trend is shown for dpm, μCi/0.5 g sample and μg Ca/0.5 g sample. The 45Ca content (μg/0.5g sample) were used to show the calcification rates of coral fragments. It showed clearly that 45Ca could be used to calculate the magnitude of calcification. Received: 08 December 2009; Revised: 05 April 2011; Accepted: 05 April 201
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Is epileptogenesis after experimental febrile seizures a function of seizure duration and/or recurrence?
Spectral gap of the totally asymmetric exclusion process at arbitrary filling
We calculate the spectral gap of the Markov matrix of the totally asymmetric
simple exclusion process (TASEP) on a ring of L sites with N particles. Our
derivation is simple and self-contained and extends a previous calculation that
was valid only for half-filling. We use a special property of the Bethe
equations for TASEP to reformulate them as a one-body problem. Our method is
closely related to the one used to derive exact large deviation functions of
the TASEP
Hippocampal corticotropin releasing hormone: pre- and postsynaptic location and release by stress.
Neuropeptides modulate neuronal function in hippocampus, but the organization of hippocampal sites of peptide release and actions is not fully understood. The stress-associated neuropeptide corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH) is expressed in inhibitory interneurons of rodent hippocampus, yet physiological and pharmacological data indicate that it excites pyramidal cells. Here we aimed to delineate the structural elements underlying the actions of CRH, and determine whether stress influenced hippocampal principal cells also via actions of this endogenous peptide. In hippocampal pyramidal cell layers, CRH was located exclusively in a subset of GABAergic somata, axons and boutons, whereas the principal receptor mediating the peptide's actions, CRH receptor 1 (CRF1), resided mainly on dendritic spines of pyramidal cells. Acute 'psychological' stress led to activation of principal neurons that expressed CRH receptors, as measured by rapid phosphorylation of the transcription factor cyclic AMP responsive element binding protein. This neuronal activation was abolished by selectively blocking the CRF1 receptor, suggesting that stress-evoked endogenous CRH release was involved in the activation of hippocampal principal cells
Current Distribution and random matrix ensembles for an integrable asymmetric fragmentation process
We calculate the time-evolution of a discrete-time fragmentation process in
which clusters of particles break up and reassemble and move stochastically
with size-dependent rates. In the continuous-time limit the process turns into
the totally asymmetric simple exclusion process (only pieces of size 1 break
off a given cluster). We express the exact solution of master equation for the
process in terms of a determinant which can be derived using the Bethe ansatz.
From this determinant we compute the distribution of the current across an
arbitrary bond which after appropriate scaling is given by the distribution of
the largest eigenvalue of the Gaussian unitary ensemble of random matrices.
This result confirms universality of the scaling form of the current
distribution in the KPZ universality class and suggests that there is a link
between integrable particle systems and random matrix ensembles.Comment: 11 page
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Prolonged experimental febrile seizures in immature rat cause spontaneous behavioral and electrophysiological seizures during adulthood
The adaptive buffered force QM/MM method in the CP2K and AMBER software packages.
The implementation and validation of the adaptive buffered force (AdBF) quantum-mechanics/molecular-mechanics (QM/MM) method in two popular packages, CP2K and AMBER are presented. The implementations build on the existing QM/MM functionality in each code, extending it to allow for redefinition of the QM and MM regions during the simulation and reducing QM-MM interface errors by discarding forces near the boundary according to the buffered force-mixing approach. New adaptive thermostats, needed by force-mixing methods, are also implemented. Different variants of the method are benchmarked by simulating the structure of bulk water, water autoprotolysis in the presence of zinc and dimethyl-phosphate hydrolysis using various semiempirical Hamiltonians and density functional theory as the QM model. It is shown that with suitable parameters, based on force convergence tests, the AdBF QM/MM scheme can provide an accurate approximation of the structure in the dynamical QM region matching the corresponding fully QM simulations, as well as reproducing the correct energetics in all cases. Adaptive unbuffered force-mixing and adaptive conventional QM/MM methods also provide reasonable results for some systems, but are more likely to suffer from instabilities and inaccuracies.N.B. acknowledges funding for this work by the Office of Naval Research through the Naval Research Laboratory's basic research program, and computer time at the AFRL DoD Supercomputing Resource Center through the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program (subproject NRLDC04253428). B.L. was supported by EPSRC (grant no. EP/G036136/1) and the Scottish Funding Council. G.C. and B.L. acknowledge support form EPSRC under grant no. EP/J01298X/1. R.C.W. and A.W.G. acknowledge financial support by the National Institutes of Health (R01 GM100934), A.W.G. acknowledges financial support by the Department of Energy (DE-AC36-99GO-10337). This work was partially supported by National Science Foundation (grant no. OCI-1148358) and used the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), which is supported by National Science Foundation grant no. ACI-1053575. Computer time was provided by the San Diego Supercomputer Center through XSEDE award TG-CHE130010.This is the author accepted version of the article. The final published version is available from Wiley at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jcc.23839/full
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