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Ariel - Volume 4 Number 6
Editors
David A. Jacoby
Eugenia Miller
Tom Williams
Associate Editors
Paul Bialas
Terry Burt
Michael Leo
Gail Tenikat
Editor Emeritus and Business Manager
Richard J. Bonnano
Movie Editor
Robert Breckenridge
Staff
Richard Blutstein
Mary F. Buechler
J.D. Kanofsky
Rocket Weber
David Maye
Quasi-equilibria in one-dimensional self-gravitating many body systems
The microscopic dynamics of one-dimensional self-gravitating many-body
systems is studied. We examine two courses of the evolution which has the
isothermal and stationary water-bag distribution as initial conditions. We
investigate the evolution of the systems toward thermal equilibrium. It is
found that when the number of degrees of freedom of the system is increased,
the water-bag distribution becomes a quasi-equilibrium, and also the
stochasticity of the system reduces. This results suggest that the phase space
of the system is effectively not ergodic and the system with large degreees of
freedom approaches to the near-integrable one.Comment: 21pages + 7 figures (available upon request), revtex, submitted to
Physical Review
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The stealth episome: suppression of gene expression on the excised genomic island PPHGI-1 from Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola
Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola is the causative agent of halo blight in the common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris. P. syringae pv. phaseolicola race 4 strain 1302A contains the avirulence gene avrPphB (syn. hopAR1), which resides on PPHGI-1, a 106 kb genomic island. Loss of PPHGI-1 from P. syringae pv. phaseolicola 1302A following exposure to the hypersensitive resistance response (HR) leads to the evolution of strains with altered virulence. Here we have used fluorescent protein reporter systems to gain insight into the mobility of PPHGI-1. Confocal imaging of dual-labelled P. syringae pv. phaseolicola 1302A strain, F532 (dsRFP in chromosome and eGFP in PPHGI-1), revealed loss of PPHGI-1::eGFP encoded fluorescence during plant infection and when grown in vitro on extracted leaf apoplastic fluids. Fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) of fluorescent and non-fluorescent PPHGI-1::eGFP F532 populations showed that cells lost fluorescence not only when the GI was deleted, but also when it had excised and was present as a circular episome. In addition to reduced expression of eGFP, quantitative PCR on sub-populations separated by FACS showed that transcription of other genes on PPHGI-1 (avrPphB and xerC) was also greatly reduced in F532 cells harbouring the excised PPHGI-1::eGFP episome. Our results show how virulence determinants located on mobile pathogenicity islands may be hidden from detection by host surveillance systems through the suppression of gene expression in the episomal state
On isovector meson exchange currents in the Bethe-Salpeter approach
We investigate the nonrelativistic reduction of the Bethe-Salpeter amplitude
for the deuteron electrodisintegration near threshold energies. To this end,
two assumptions have been used in the calculations: 1) the static approximation
and 2) the one iteration approximation. Within these assumptions it is possible
to recover the nonrelativistic result including a systematic extension to
relativistic corrections. We find that the so-called pair current term can be
constructed from the -wave contribution of the deuteron Bethe-Salpeter
amplitude. The form factor that enters into the calculation of the pair current
is constrained by the manifestly gauge independent matrix elements.Comment: 15 pages, incl. 3 figures, to be published Phys. Rev.
Algebraic approach in the study of time-dependent nonlinear integrable systems: Case of the singular oscillator
The classical and the quantal problem of a particle interacting in
one-dimension with an external time-dependent quadratic potential and a
constant inverse square potential is studied from the Lie-algebraic point of
view. The integrability of this system is established by evaluating the exact
invariant closely related to the Lewis and Riesenfeld invariant for the
time-dependent harmonic oscillator. We study extensively the special and
interesting case of a kicked quadratic potential from which we derive a new
integrable, nonlinear, area preserving, two-dimensional map which may, for
instance, be used in numerical algorithms that integrate the
Calogero-Sutherland-Moser Hamiltonian. The dynamics, both classical and
quantal, is studied via the time-evolution operator which we evaluate using a
recent method of integrating the quantum Liouville-Bloch equations \cite{rau}.
The results show the exact one-to-one correspondence between the classical and
the quantal dynamics. Our analysis also sheds light on the connection between
properties of the SU(1,1) algebra and that of simple dynamical systems.Comment: 17 pages, 4 figures, Accepted in PR
Subcritical Fluctuations at the Electroweak Phase Transition
We study the importance of thermal fluctuations during the electroweak phase
transition. We evaluate in detail the equilibrium number density of large
amplitude subcritical fluctuations and discuss the importance of phase mixing
to the dynamics of the phase transition. Our results show that, for realistic
Higgs masses, the phase transition can be completed by the percolation of the
true vacuum, induced by the presence of subcritical fluctuations.Comment: RevTeX, 4 eps figs (uses epsf.sty), 26 pages, to be published in
Phys. Rev.
Hypoxia-induced bacterial translocation in the puppy
Because hypoxia is one of the most common major stresses to which a neonate is exposed, we postulated that it alone might be the cause of intestinal bacterial translocation, which could be the underlying etiology of neonatal sepsis. An animal model, in which hypoxia is the sole stress, was developed in our laboratory and tested in 18 puppies to determine the effect of hypoxia and reoxygenation on intestinal bacterial translocation. In group I (n = 8), following laparotomy and cannulation of the superior mesenteric vein (SMV), the FIO2 was decreased from 21% to 9% for 90 minutes followed by reoxygenation at 21% for 120 minutes. The abdomen was closed and the animals were allowed to recover. After 24 hours the mesenteric lymph nodes (MLNs), spleen, and liver were harvested for bacterial determination and the ileum and jejunum for histological evaluation. Group II (n = 7) was treated the same as group I with the FIO2 maintained at 21%. Group III (n = 3) animals were killed, without intervention, for bacterial analysis. In group I, the systemic PO2 decreased by 75%, SMV PO2 decreased by 64%, and oxygen delivery to the small bowel decreased by 80% in comparison with group II. The mean arterial pressure and cardiac output were not significantly different between group I and group II; however, the mucosal blood flow was decreased by 60% (P P P < .001). This study demonstrates that severe systemic hypoxia and subsequent reoxygenation does not initiate oxidant-mediated, lipid peroxidation injury to the small bowel mucosa, but does allow bacterial translocation to the MLNs. Thus, hypoxia-induced bacterial translocation could serve as a model for neonatal sepsis without apparent bowel injury.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/30364/1/0000766.pd
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