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Occurence of hammer oyster, Malleus albus near Nachikuppam, Chennai
The hammer oyster, Malleus albus is placed
under Class Bivalvia, Subclass Pteriomorphia, Order
Pterioida, Superfamily Pteriacea, Family Malleidae.
The oyster is locally called suti ali. These oysters
(Fig. 1 a and b) were caught by fishermen from
Nachikuppam, 1-2 km off Chennai using Nakkuvalai,
a bottom set gillnet, at a depth of 5-7 fathoms. The
maximum and minimum shell length was 156 mm
and 77 mm and the average length and weight were
117 mm and 29 g respectively
Supersolid and solitonic phases in one-dimensional Extended Bose-Hubbard model
We report our findings on quantum phase transitions in cold bosonic atoms in
a one dimensional optical lattice using the finite size density matrix
renormalization group method in the framework of the extended Bose-Hubbard
model. We consider wide ranges of values for the filling factors and the
nearest neighbor interactions. At commensurate fillings, we obtain two
different types of charge density wave phases and a Mott insulator phase.
However, departure from commensurate fillings yield the exotic supersolid phase
where both the crystalline and the superfluid orders coexist. In addition, we
obtain signatures for solitary waves and also superfluidity.Comment: 7 pages, 11 figure
First record of the chimaeroid, Rhinochimaera atlantica at Kasimedu Fisheries Harbour, Chennai
Bumper landings of skipjack tuna, Katsuwonus
pelamis was observed at Visakhapatnam Fishing
Harbour on 28th October 2011, wherein about 42 t
were landed by hooks and line
26-G needle-assisted sutureless glueless intrascleral haptic fixation for secondary ciliary sulcus implantation of three-piece polymethylmethacrylate intraocular lens during penetrating keratoplasty
AbstractAfter tenotomy adjoining 3 o'clock and 9 o'clock limbus, 3-mm-wide partial-thickness scleral tunnels are created at these two diametrically opposite points 3 mm from the limbus such that they reach up to a distance of 1.5 mm from the limbus. Two ab externo sclerotomies are created using 26-G needles on the bed of these partial-thickness scleral tunnels. Precaution is taken to ensure that the positions of the sclerotomies are diagonally opposite each other. A scleral niche is made using a 26-G needle to accommodate the intraocular lens (IOL) haptic later. A 7.5-mm trephine is used to excise the corneal button, and anterior vitrectomy is performed. The haptic of a three-piece polymethylmethacrylate IOL is docked in a bent 26-G needle. It is then pulled out under the partial-thickness scleral tunnel and placed securely in the scleral niche opposite to the haptic. An 8-mm donor corneal button is sutured in place using 16 equidistantly placed 10-0 nylon interrupted sutures
On instantons as Kaluza-Klein modes of M5-branes
Instantons and W-bosons in 5d maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory
arise from a circle compactification of the 6d (2,0) theory as Kaluza-Klein
modes and winding self-dual strings, respectively. We study an index which
counts BPS instantons with electric charges in Coulomb and symmetric phases. We
first prove the existence of unique threshold bound state of (noncommutative)
U(1) instantons for any instanton number, and also show that charged instantons
in the Coulomb phase correctly give the degeneracy of SU(2) self-dual strings.
By studying SU(N) self-dual strings in the Coulomb phase, we find novel
momentum-carrying degrees on the worldsheet. The total number of these degrees
equals the anomaly coefficient of SU(N) (2,0) theory. We finally show that our
index can be used to study the symmetric phase of this theory, and provide an
interpretation as the superconformal index of the sigma model on instanton
moduli space.Comment: 54 pages, 2 figures. v2: references added, figure improved, added
comments on self-dual string anomaly, added new materials on the symmetric
phase index, other minor correction
The Conformal Anomaly of M5-Branes
We show that the conformal anomaly for N M5-branes grows like . The
method we employ relates Coulomb branch interactions in six dimensions to
interactions in four dimensions using supersymmetry. This leads to a relation
between the six-dimensional conformal anomaly and the conformal anomaly of N=4
Yang-Mills. Along the way, we determine the structure of the four derivative
interactions for the toroidally compactified (2,0) theory, while encountering
interesting novelties in the structure of the six derivative interactions.Comment: 38 pages, LaTeX; references adde
A program for a problem free Cosmology within a framework of a rich class of scalar tensor theories
A search for a problem free cosmology within the framework of an effective
non - minimally coupled scalar tensor theory is suggested. With appropriate
choice of couplings in variants of a Lee - Wick model [as also in a model
supporting Q - ball solutions], non topological solutions [NTS's], varying in
size upto 10 kpc to 1 Mpc can exist. We explore the properties of a ``toy''
Milne model containing a distribution of NTS domains. The interior of these
domains would be regions where effective gravitational effects would be
indistinguishable from those expected in standard Einstein theory. For a large
class of non - minimal coupling terms and the scalar effective potential, the
effective cosmological constant identically vanishes. The model passes
classical cosmological tests and we describe reasons to expect it to fare well
as regards nucleosynthesis and structure formation.Comment: 20 pages, Plain Tex, references added and expanded the previous
version of article, 2 figures available from [email protected]
Maladaptive striatal plasticity and abnormal reward-learning in cervical dystonia
In monogenetic generalized forms of dystonia, in vitro neurophysiological recordings have demonstrated direct evidence for abnormal plasticity at the level of the cortico‐striatal synapse. It is unclear whether similar abnormalities contribute to the pathophysiology of cervical dystonia, the most common type of focal dystonia. We investigated whether abnormal cortico‐striatal synaptic plasticity contributes to abnormal reward‐learning behavior in patients with focal dystonia. Forty patients and 40 controls performed a reward gain and loss avoidance reversal learning task. Participant's behavior was fitted to a computational model of the basal ganglia incorporating detailed cortico‐striatal synaptic learning rules. Model comparisons were performed to assess the ability of four hypothesized receptor specific abnormalities of cortico‐striatal long‐term potentiation (LTP) and long‐term depression (LTD): increased or decreased D1:LTP/LTD and increased or decreased D2: LTP/LTD to explain abnormal behavior in patients. Patients were selectively impaired in the post‐reversal phase of the reward task. Individual learning rates in the reward reversal task correlated with the severity of the patient's motor symptoms. A model of the striatum with decreased D2:LTP/ LTD best explained the patient's behavior, suggesting excessive D2 cortico‐striatal synaptic depotentiation could underpin biased reward‐learning in patients with cervical dystonia. Reversal learning impairment in cervical dystonia may be a behavioral correlate of D2‐specific abnormalities in cortico‐striatal synaptic plasticity. Reinforcement learning tasks with computational modeling could allow the identification of molecular targets for novel treatments based on their ability to restore normal reward‐learning behavior in these patients
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