We studied a family with nonprogressive congenital ataxia (NPCA) previously reported in 1985. Follow-up evaluation documented a nonprogressive course. Older family members developed ataxic spells and vertical oscillopsia triggered by stress and exercise. Linkage analysis using a 10K single-nucleotide polymorphism array found suggestive linkage to four loci on chromosomes 1q44, 5q35.1-35.3, 7q36...

0.5μm thick graphene films printed on plastic substrates exhibit metallic type conduction with a positive value of 1.5 × 10K for the temperature coefficient of resistance over the temperature range from 260K to 330K . The crystallites of approximately 6.5 nm in their average size in the film are found from the X-Ray diffraction pattern to be oriented preferentially along [002] plane. © 2016 Els...

We show that if T is a strongly 10k log(2k)-connected tournament, there exists a partition A,B of V (T ) such that each of T [A], T [B] and T [A,B] is strongly k-connected. This provides solutions to tournament analogues of two partition conjectures of Thomassen regarding highly connected graphs. We also discuss spanning linkages as well as non-separating subdivisions in highly connected tourna...

We present global solutions of optically thin, two-temperature black hole accretion disks incorporating magnetic fields. We assume that the ̟φ-component of the Maxwell stress is proportional to the total pressure, and prescribe the radial dependence of the magnetic flux advection rate in order to complete the set of basic equations. We obtained the magnetically supported (low-β) disk solutions, ...

The formation rate of a close binary consisting of a super-massive black hole and a compact object (presumably a white dwarf) in galactic cusps is calculated with help of the so-called loss cone approximation. For a powerlaw cusp of radius ra, the black hole mass M ∼ 106M⊙, and the fraction of the compact objects δ ∼ 0.1 this rate Ṅwd ∼ 4 · 10K(p) √ GM r a ≈ 3 · 10K(p)( M 10M⊙ ) 1/2 ( ra 1pc ) ...

Autosomal recessive retinitis pigmentosa (arRP) is the commonest form of RP worldwide. To date 22 loci have been implicated in the pathogenesis of this disease; however none of these loci independently account for a significant proportion of recessive RP. Linkage studies of arRP in consanguineous families have been mainly based on homozygosity mapping, but this strategy cannot be applied in the...

Gold nanospheres coated with a binary monolayer of bound citrate and cysteine ligands were assembled into nanoclusters, in which the size and near-infrared (NIR) extinction were tuned by varying the pH and concentration of added NaCl. During full evaporation of an aqueous dispersion of 4.5 ± 1.8 nm Au primary particles, the nanoclusters were formed and quenched by the triblock copolymer polylac...

Enzymatic treatment of o-, m-, and p-chlorophenols and o-, m-, and p-cresols from artificial wastewater was undertaken through the enzymatic conversion into the corresponding phenoxy radicals with horseradish peroxidase (HRP) and nonenzymatic radical coupling reaction. The concentration of chlorophenols and cresols decreased sharply over the reaction time and water-insoluble oligomer precipitat...