Two families of astrophysical diverging lens models

Functional impairment of lens aquaporin in two families with dominantly inherited cataracts.

Opacities in the crystalline lens of eye appear with high frequency in the general population. Dominantly inherited cataracts with differing clinical features were found in two families carrying different point mutations in the gene encoding lens water channel protein AQP0 (major intrinsic protein, MIP). Families with E134G have a uni-lamellar cataract which is stable after birth, whereas famil...

Multidimensional cosmological models: cosmological and astrophysical implications

We investigate four-dimensional effective theories which are obtained by dimensional reduction of multidimensional cosmological models with factorizable geometry and consider the interaction between conformal excitations of the internal space (geometrical moduli excitations) and Abelian gauge fields. It is assumed that the internal space background can be stabilized by minima of an effective po...

Confronting Dark Energy Models with Astrophysical Data

We discuss fits of cosmological dark energy models to the available data on high-redshift supernovae and baryon oscillations. We consider a conventional model with Cold Dark Matter and a cosmological constant (ΛCDM), a model invoking super-horizon perturbations (SHDM) and models based on Liouville strings in which dark energy is provided by a rolling dilaton field (Q-cosmology). The two main hi...

Families of Models

Response: Families, Models, Relationships

Margaret McMahon: I have worked as a family therapist and always believed the patient gets better faster if the family is involved. It’s been disappointing to me that, in the outpatient addiction program where I work now, families just don’t participate. They are offered the opportunity to come to a family counseling session once a week free of charge, but very rarely do we have family members ...