Atypical presentation of visceral leishmaniasis from non-endemic region

A case of atypical and acute presentation of visceral leishmaniasis from non-endemic region, characterised by exudative pleural effusion and hepatitis is reporte

TDRSS/user satellite timing study

A timing analysis for data readout through the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) was presented. Various time tagging approaches were considered and the resulting accuracies delineated. The TDRSS was also defined and described in detail

A compendium of millimeter wave propagation studies performed by NASA

Key millimeter wave propagation experiments and analytical results were summarized. The experiments were performed with the Ats-5, Ats-6 and Comstar satellites, radars, radiometers and rain gage networks. Analytic models were developed for extrapolation of experimental results to frequencies, locations, and communications systems

Logarithmic correction to the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of the BTZ black hole

We derive an exact expression for the partition function of the Euclidean BTZ black hole. Using this, we show that for a black hole with large horizon area, the correction to the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy is $-3/2 log(Area)$, in agreement with that for the Schwarzschild black hole obtained in the canonical gravity formalism and also in a Lorentzian computation of BTZ black hole entropy. We find that the right expression for the logarithmic correction in the context of the BTZ black hole comes from the modular invariance associated with the toral boundary of the black hole.Comment: LaTeX, 10 pages, typos corrected, clarifications adde

Human T Cell Lymphotrophic Virus 1 After Transplantation: What Is the Risk of Recipient Disease?

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/92115/1/j.1600-6143.2012.04041.x.pd

Tailoring the ground state of the ferrimagnet La2Ni(Ni1/3Sb2/3)O6

We report on the magnetic and structural properties of La2Ni(Ni1/3Sb2/3)O6 in polycrystal, single crystal and thin film samples. We found that this material is a ferrimagnet (Tc ~ 100 K) which possesses a very distinctive and uncommon feature in its virgin curve of the hysteresis loops. We observe that bellow 20 K it lies outside the hysteresis cycle, and this feature was found to be an indication of a microscopically irreversible process possibly involving the interplay of competing antiferromagnetic interactions that hinder the initial movement of domain walls. This initial magnetic state is overcome by applying a temperature dependent characteristic field. Above this field, an isothermal magnetic demagnetization of the samples yield a ground state different from the initial thermally demagnetized one.Comment: 21 pages, 8 figures, submitted to JMM

Spacetime Dependent Lagrangians and Weak-Strong Duality : Sine Gordon and Massive Thirring Models

The formalism of spacetime dependent lagrangians developed in Ref.1 is applied to the Sine Gordon and massive Thirring models.It is shown that the well-known equivalence of these models (in the context of weak-strong duality) can be understood in this approach from the same considerations as described in [1] for electromagnetic duality. A further new result is that all these can be naturally linked to the fact that the holographic principle has analogues at length scales much larger than quantum gravity. There is also the possibility of {\it noncommuting coodinates} residing on the boundaries. PACS: 11.15.-q: 11.10/EfComment: Latex, 16 pages, article shortened, references added, minor typos correcte

Propagation effects handbook for satellite systems design: A summary of propagation impairments on 10 to 100 GHz satellite links with techniques for system design

The major propagation effects experienced on Earth-space communications paths in the 10 to 100 GHz frequency range. Attenuation due to rain is dealt with in detail