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AGAPEROS: Searching for variable stars in the LMC Bar with the Pixel Method. I. Detection, astrometry and cross-identification
We extend the work developed in previous papers on microlensing with a
selection of variable stars. We use the Pixel Method to select variable stars
on a set of 2.5 x 10**6 pixel light curves in the LMC Bar presented elsewhere.
The previous treatment was done in order to optimise the detection of long
timescale variations (larger than a few days) and we further optimise our
analysis for the selection of Long Timescale and Long Period Variables
(LT&LPV). We choose to perform a selection of variable objects as comprehensive
as possible, independent of periodicity and of their position on the colour
magnitude diagram. We detail the different thresholds successively applied to
the light curves, which allow to produce a catalogue of 632 variable objects.
We present a table with the coordinate of each variable, its EROS magnitudes at
one epoch and an indicator of blending in both colours, together with a finding
chart.
A cross-correlation with various catalogues shows that 90% of those variable
objects were undetected before, thus enlarging the sample of LT&LPV previously
known in this area by a factor of 10. Due to the limitations of both the Pixel
Method and the data set, additional data -- namely a longer baseline and near
infrared photometry -- are required to further characterise these variable
stars, as will be addressed in subsequent papers.Comment: 11 pages with 10 figure
Hostal Aritzaiko Navarra – España
The building, constructed on approximately 790 square meters, is devoted to a dining room and lodging for visitors in transit and is situated in Echarri-Aranaz, next to the highway, on a clearing in the woods,
It possesses an extensive ground floor and two upper levéis covering smaller areas which rise, as a side body, over one of the building's sides. The overall structure houses a bar, dining room, kitchen, management office and a total of eight double rooms and two single rooms.
An important double-pitch roof, which covers the two upper floors, together with another with several pitches which with its different planes conforms to the irregular perimeter of the structure on the ground floor, give the building the distinctive characteristics of the architecture typical of the region, in this way adaptedEl edificio, de aproximadamente 790 m2 construidos, se destina a comedor y hospedaje para personas en tránsito, estando emplazado en Echarri - Aranaz, junto a la carretera, en el calvero de un bosque.
Cuenta con una extensa planta baja y dos niveles superiores, de superficie más reducida, que se elevan, a modo de cuerpo lateral, sobre uno de los costados del edificio. El conjunto de la edificación distribuye los servicios de bar, comedor, cocina, administración, y un total de 8 dormitorios dobles y 2 sencillos.
Una importante cubierta a dos aguas, que abarca a las dos plantas más altas, junto a otra de varias aguas, que con sus distintos planos se ajusta al perÃmetro irregular de la construcción en planta baja, imprimen al edificio las caracterÃsticas propias de la arquitectura popular de la reglón, que se ve asà homologada en un planteamiento arquitectónico moderno
Nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus in dairy sheep.
International audienceThe purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage of dairy sheep in farms producing cheeses manufactured with raw ewe's milk. The study showed that 29% of ewes carried S. aureus in their nares. The genetic diversity of the 136 isolates recovered from the anterior nares of the ewes, from the ambient air of the milking parlour and from cheeses was investigated using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) of DNA SmaI digests. The genotyping results showed that 75 out of 106 isolates recovered from nasal carriage in dairy sheep belonged to a dominant pattern (previously named OV) and a genetically related pattern (named OV'). The same profile (OV or OV') was found in the ambient air and cheeses, suggesting a continuum between isolates within these different compartments
Conjugate 18cm OH Satellite Lines at a Cosmological Distance
We have detected the two 18cm OH satellite lines from the
source PKS1413+135, the 1720 MHz line in emission and the 1612 MHz line in
absorption. The 1720 MHz luminosity is , more than
an order of magnitude larger than that of any other known 1720 MHz maser. The
profiles of the two satellite lines are conjugate, implying that they arise in
the same gas. This allows us to test for any changes in the values of
fundamental constants, without being affected by systematic uncertainties
arising from relative motions between the gas clouds in which the different
lines arise. Our data constrain changes in ,
where ; we find ,
consistent with no changes in , and .Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure. Minor changes to match published versio
Pharmacokinetics and dosage adjustment of cefotiam in renal impaired patients
The pharmacokinetics of cefotiam were investigated after intravenous administration of 1 g to 2 healthy volunteers with normal renal function and to 16 patients whose creatinine clearance ranged from 4.7 to 0.11/h (78 to 1.66 ml/min). The elimination half-life varied from 1.1 h in normal subjects to 13 h in patients and the total plasma clearance from 21 to 0.6 1/h (350 to 10 ml/min). The urinary recovery decreased from 62% of the dose in normal subjects to 1.1% in patients, and the renal clearance from 15 to 0.03 l/h (250 to 0.5 ml/min). Plasma and renal clearances of cefotiam correlated well with the creatinine clearance. The dosage schedule for cefotiam in patients with normal renal function can be used in the presence of renal failure when the creatinine clearance is equal to or greater than 1 1/h (16.6 ml/min). For patients whose creatinine clearance is less than 1 1/h, the dose must be decreased to 75% of that for a patient with normal renal function only when it is given every 6 or 8
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