Lee Lindblom and Curt Cutler Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, USA Theoretical Astrophysics 350-17, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, M/S 169-327, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, California 91109, USA (Received 8 February 2016; published 20...

OBJECTIVE Linkages of renin gene polymorphisms with hypertension have been implicated in several populations with contrasting results. Present study aims to assess the pattern of renin gene polymorphisms in Bangladeshi hypertensive individuals. METHODOLOGY Introns 1, 9 of renin gene and 4063 bases upstream of promoter sequence of renin gene were amplified from the genomic DNA of the total 124...

In a one-dimensional periodic nonlinear χ (2) medium, by choosing a proper material and geometrical parameters of the structure, it is possible to obtain two matching conditions for simultaneous generation of second and third harmonics. This leads to new diversity of the processes of the resonant three-wave interactions, which are discussed within the framework of slowly varying envelope approa...

A theory of pump-probe spectroscopy is developed in which optical fields drive two-photon Raman transitions between ground states of an ensemble of three-level atoms. Effects related to the recoil the atoms undergo as a result of their interactions with the fields are fully accounted for in this theory. The linear absorption coefficient of a weak probe field in the presence of two pump fields o...

We prove that on a punctured oriented surface with Euler characteristic χ < 0, the maximal cardinality of a set of essential simple arcs that are pairwise nonhomotopic and intersecting at most once is 2|χ|(|χ|+1). This gives a cubic estimate in |χ| for a set of curves pairwise intersecting at most once on a closed surface. We also give polynomial estimates in |χ| for sets of arcs and curves pai...

We study the second-harmonic generation in quadratic nonlinear media with localized spatial modulation of χ((2)) response. We demonstrate that the emission of Čerenkov second-harmonic takes place only when the fundamental beam illuminates the region of χ((2)) variation. This proves that the sharp modulation of the χ((2)) nonlinearity constitutes a sufficient condition for the emission of Čerenk...

OBJECTIVES Visual hallucinations (VH) most commonly occur in eye disease (ED), Parkinson disease (PD), and Lewy body dementia (LBD). The phenomenology of VH is likely to carry important information about the brain areas within the visual system generating them. METHODS Data from five controlled cross-sectional VH studies (164 controls, 135 ED, 156 PD, 79 [PDD 48 + DLB 31] LBD) were combined a...

OBJECTIVE To compare lung ultrasonography (LUS), chest xray (CXR) and physical examination (Ex) for the detection of pathological abnormalities in the lungs of critically ill patients. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS A prospective cohort study of 145 patients in the intensive care unit of a tertiary teaching hospital who were undergoing echocardiography for a clinical indication. MAIN OUTC...