The superfluid phase transition of the general vortex gas, in which the circulations may be any non-zero integer, is studied. When the net circulation of the system is not zero the absence of a superfluid phase is shown. When the net circulation of the vortices vanishes, the presence of off-diagonal long range order is demonstrated and the existence of an order parameter is proposed. The transi...

Background The formation of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) with extrusion nuclear, granular and cytosolic components from a dying neutrophil, has been described extensively in patients rheumatoid arthritis (RA), linked to generation autoantigens (e.g. citrullinated proteins), inflammation organ damage. Thus far there have very few studies describing the effect treatment RA on NET formati...

Neuroblastoma is unique amongst common pediatric cancers for its expression of the norepinephrine transporter (NET), enabling tumor-selective imaging and therapy with radioactive analogues of norepinephrine. The majority of neuroblastoma tumors are avid for (123)I-metaiodobenzaguanidine (mIBG) on imaging, yet the therapeutic response to (131) I-mIBG is only 30% in clinical trials, and off-targe...

This paper aims to investigate the impact of credit risk on profitability banking sector in Sri Lanka. The is measured with and Return Assets. At same time, quantified four indicators: Non-performing loan Ratio (NPLR), Loan Deposit (LDR), Net Charge off (NCOR), Capital Adequacy (CAR). Data from thirteen banks over eight years 2010 2017 was analyzed using panel data regression analysis. finding ...

A central task for animating computer generated characters is the synchronization of lip movements and speech signal. For real time synchronization high technical effort, which involves a face tracking system or data gloves, is needed to drive the expressions of the character. If the speech signal is already given, off-line synchronization is possible but the animator is left with a time consum...

Conservation can be analyzed as a political game between advocates and opponents, and games include signals. Triage approaches aim to trade off conservation gains and losses for different species, populations and sites, in an attempt to reduce aggregate net losses. These approaches send a political signal that some local or global species extinctions are socially acceptable. This permits conser...

The Code Contracts project [3] at Microsoft Research enables programmers on the .NET platform to author specifications in existing languages such as C# and VisualBasic. To take advantage of these specifications, we provide tools for documentation generation, runtime contract checking, and static contract verification. This talk details the overall approach of the static contract checker and exa...

Generational accounting is a relatively new method of reorganizing the government's budget data to understand how the burden of paying for government spending on goods and services is distributed among living and future generations.' To study this distribution, generational accounting estimates lifetime net tax rates facing different generations under current policies.' For a given generation, ...