637 research outputs found
Aubry sets vs Mather sets in two degrees of freedom
We study autonomous Tonelli Lagrangians on closed surfaces. We aim to clarify
the relationship between the Aubry set and the Mather set, when the latter
consists of periodic orbits which are not fixed points. Our main result says
that in that case the Aubry set and the Mather set almost always coincide.Comment: Revised and expanded version. New proof of Lemma 2.3 (formerly Lemma
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Monographies on drugs, which are frequently analysed in the course of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Monographien über Medikamente, die regelmässig im Rahmen des Therapeutic Drug Monitorings analysiert werden
In 1995 the working group "Drug Monitoring” of the Swiss Society of Clinical Chemistry (SSCC) has already published a printed version of drug monographs, which are now newly compiled and presented in a standardised manner. The aim of these monographs is to give an overview on the most important informations that are necessary in order to request a drug analysis or is helpful to interpret the results. Therefore, the targeted audience are laboratory health professionals or the receivers of the reports. There is information provided on the indication for therapeutic drug monitoring, protein binding, metabolic pathways and enzymes involved, elimination half life time and elimination routes as well as information on therapeutic or toxic concentrations. Because preanalytical considerations are of particular importance for therapeutic drug monitoring, there is also information given at which time the determination of the drug concentration is reasonable and when steady-state concentrations are reached after changing the dose. Furthermore, the stability of the drug and its metabolite(s), respectively, after blood sampling is described. For readers with a specific interest, references to important publications are given. The number of the monographs will be continuously enlarged. The updated files are presented on the homepage of the SSCC (www.sscc.ch). We hope that these monographs are helpful for you handling therapeutic drug monitoring and look forward to comments of the audienc
On the Large Time Behavior of Solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi Equations Associated with Nonlinear Boundary Conditions
In this article, we study the large time behavior of solutions of first-order
Hamilton-Jacobi Equations, set in a bounded domain with nonlinear Neumann
boundary conditions, including the case of dynamical boundary conditions. We
establish general convergence results for viscosity solutions of these
Cauchy-Neumann problems by using two fairly different methods : the first one
relies only on partial differential equations methods, which provides results
even when the Hamiltonians are not convex, and the second one is an optimal
control/dynamical system approach, named the "weak KAM approach" which requires
the convexity of Hamiltonians and gives formulas for asymptotic solutions based
on Aubry-Mather sets
Misoprostol treatment of dystocia due to incomplete dilatation of the cervix in a cow: a case report
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The Sensitivity of Harassment to Orbit: Mass Loss from Early-Type Dwarfs in Galaxy Clusters
We conduct a comprehensive numerical study of the orbital dependence of
harassment on early-type dwarfs consisting of 168 different orbits within a
realistic, Virgo-like cluster, varying in eccentricity and pericentre distance.
We find harassment is only effective at stripping stars or truncating their
stellar disks for orbits that enter deep into the cluster core. Comparing to
the orbital distribution in cosmological simulations, we find that the majority
of the orbits (more than three quarters) result in no stellar mass loss. We
also study the effects on the radial profiles of the globular cluster systems
of early-type dwarfs. We find these are significantly altered only if
harassment is very strong. This suggests that perhaps most early-type dwarfs in
clusters such as Virgo have not suffered any tidal stripping of stars or
globular clusters due to harassment, as these components are safely embedded
deep within their dark matter halo. We demonstrate that this result is actually
consistent with an earlier study of harassment of dwarf galaxies, despite the
apparent contradiction. Those few dwarf models that do suffer stellar stripping
are found out to the virial radius of the cluster at redshift=0, which mixes
them in with less strongly harassed galaxies. However when placed on
phase-space diagrams, strongly harassed galaxies are found offset to lower
velocities compared to weakly harassed galaxies. This remains true in a
cosmological simulation, even when halos have a wide range of masses and
concentrations. Thus phase-space diagrams may be a useful tool for determining
the relative likelihood that galaxies have been strongly or weakly harassed.Comment: 17 pages, 13 figures, Accepted to MNRAS 8th September 201
Spiral inflow feeding the nuclear starburst in M83, observed in H-alpha emission with the GHAFAS Fabry-Perot interferometer
We present observations of the nearby barred starburst galaxy, M83 (NGC5236),
with the new Fabry-Perot interferometer GHAFAS mounted on the 4.2 meter William
Herschel Telescope on La Palma. The unprecedented high resolution observations,
of 16 pc/FWHM, of the H-alpha-emitting gas cover the central two kpc of the
galaxy. The velocity field displays the dominant disk rotation with signatures
of gas inflow from kpc scales down to the nuclear regions. At the inner Inner
Lindblad Resonance radius of the main bar and centerd at the dynamical center
of the main galaxy disk, a nuclear rapidly
rotating disk with scale length of pc has formed. The nuclear
starburst is found in the vicinity as well as inside this nuclear disk, and our
observations confirm that gas spirals in from the outer parts to feed the
nuclear starburst, giving rise to several star formation events at different
epochs, within the central 100 pc radius of M83.Comment: Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters. High-resolution version can
be found at http://www.astro.su.se/~kambiz/DOC/paper-M83.pd
Chaos in the Einstein-Yang-Mills Equations
Yang-Mills color fields evolve chaotically in an anisotropically expanding
universe. The chaotic behaviour differs from that found in anisotropic
Mixmaster universes. The universe isotropizes at late times, approaching the
mean expansion rate of a radiation-dominated universe. However, small chaotic
oscillations of the shear and color stresses continue indefinitely. An
invariant, coordinate-independent characterisation of the chaos is provided by
means of fractal basin boundaries.Comment: 3 pages LaTeX + 3 pages of figure
A Magellan-IMACS-IFU Search for Dynamical Drivers of Nuclear Activity. I. Reduction Pipeline and Galaxy Catalog
Using the Inamori Magellan Areal Camera and Spectrograph (IMACS)
integral-field unit (IFU) on the 6.5m Magellan telescope, we have designed the
first statistically significant investigation of the two-dimensional
distribution and kinematics of ionized gas and stars in the central kiloparsec
regions of a well-matched sample of Seyfert and inactive control galaxies
selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The goals of the project are to use
the fine spatial sampling (0.2 arcsec/pixel) and large wavelength coverage
(4000-7000A) of the IMACS-IFU to search for dynamical triggers of nuclear
activity in the central region where active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity and
dynamical timescales become comparable, to identify and assess the impact of
AGN-driven outflows on the host galaxy and to provide a definitive sample of
local galaxy kinematics for comparison with future three-dimensional kinematic
studies of high-redshift systems. In this paper, we provide the first detailed
description of the procedure to reduce and calibrate data from the IMACS-IFU in
`long mode' to obtain two-dimensional maps of the distribution and kinematics
of ionized gas and stars. The sample selection criteria are presented,
observing strategy described and resulting maps of the sample galaxies
presented along with a description of the observed properties of each galaxy
and the overall observed properties of the sample.Comment: 62 pages. 41 figures. 5 tables. Accepted for publication in ApJS.
High-resolution version available at:
http://www.astro.ljmu.ac.uk/~pbw/IMACS-IFU/IMACS-1-highRes.pd
Improving Employment and Income through Development of Egypt’s Aquaculture Sector (IEIDEAS) project
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)-funded Improving Employment and Income through Development of Egypt’s Aquaculture Sector (IEIDEAS) project was implemented by WorldFish in partnership with CARE Egypt and the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation from 2011 to 2014 and later extended to November 2015. The project focused on four governorates with significant aquaculture production (Kafr El Sheikh, Behera, Sharkia and Fayoum) and one governorate (El Mineya), where aquaculture was a new activity. The project was based on a value chain analysis conducted by WorldFish in September 2011 that identified the aquaculture value chain as a significant employer, particularly in rural areas. The analysis suggested that there was scope to increase employment of youth and women in the aquaculture sector The main objective was to increase aquaculture production by 10% and create 10,000 jobs. Other objectives included improving profitability for existing producers, securing employment for women fish retailers, expanding aquaculture in El Mineya and improving the policy environment for aquaculture
Physical Condition of Molecular Gas at the Centre of NGC 1097
We have used the Xco conversion factor, Local Thermal Equilibrium and Large
Velocity Gradient approximation to parametrize the cold and warm phase of the
interstellar medium from five different low transitions of CO in the central
21"(kpc) of NGC 1097. We have applied a one-component model and derived a
typical kinetic temperature of ~33K, and its molecular Hydrogen density and a
CO column density. A two-component model results in 85% cold-to-total gas
fraction with a 90K warm counterpart. Furthermore, we "resolve" the spatially
unresolved single dish observations by selecting velocity channels that in an
interferometric velocity map correspond to specific regions. We have selected
five such regions and found that the physical properties in these regions are
comparable to those derived from the full line profile. This implies that the
central kpc of NGC 1097 is rather homogeneous in nature, and, although the
regions are not uniquely located within the ring, the star formation along the
ring is homogeneously distributed (in agreement with recent Herschel
observations). We have further revised the mass inflow rate onto the
Supermassive Black Hole in this prototype LINER/Sy1 galaxy and found that,
accounting for the total interstellar medium and applying a careful
contribution of the disc thickness and corresponding stability criterion,
increases the previous estimations by a factor 10. Finally we have calculated
the Xco for the centre of NGC 1097 using an independent estimation of the
surface density to the CO emission, and obtained Xco=(2.8+-0.5)x10^20 cm^-2(K
km s^-1)^-1 at radius 10.5" and Xco=(5.0+-0.5)x10^20 cm^-2(K km s^-1)^-1 at
7.5". With the approach and analysis described, we have demonstrated that
important physical properties can be derived to a resolution beyond the single
dish resolution element, however, caution is necessary for interpreting the
results.(Abriged)Comment: 10 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables, Accepted for publication in MNRA
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