Morphological characteristics of Stomoxys spp. were studied and recorded for the first time in Thailand. Specimens were collected in central Thailand at Nakhon Pathom, Kanchanaburi and Saraburi Province, using Vavoua traps and sweep net. It was found that Stomoxys calcitrans (L.) was the most commonly abundant species, followed by Stomoxys sitiens Rondani, Stomoxys indica Picard and Stomoxys be...

The aim of this paper is to describe algebraic K3 surfaces with an even set of rational curves or of nodes. Their minimal possible Picard number is nine. We completely classify these K3 surfaces and after a careful analysis of the divisors contained in the Picard lattice we study their projective models, giving necessary and sufficient conditions to have an even set. Moreover we investigate the...

We compute the Picard group of the moduli space U ′ of semistable vector bundles of rank n and degree d on an irreducible nodal curve Y and show that U ′ is locally factorial. We determine the canonical line bundles of U ′ and U ′ L, the subvariety consisting of vector bundles with a fixed determinant. For rank 2, we compute the Picard group of other strata in the compactification of U ′.

We study Cox rings of K3-surfaces. A first result is that a K3surface has a finitely generated Cox ring if and only if its effective cone is rational polyhedral. Moreover, we investigate degrees of generators and relations for Cox rings of K3-surfaces of Picard number two, and explicitly compute the Cox rings of generic K3-surfaces with a non-symplectic involution that have Picard number 2 to 5...

Periodic solutions of certain large scale systems of ODEs can be computed eeciently using a hybrid Newton-Picard scheme, especially in a continuation context. In this paper we describe and analyse a numerical method to accurately compute period doubling bifurcation points using the Newton-Picard approach. The method avoids the computation of the full monodromy matrix, which is present in the de...

A K3-surface is a (smooth) surface which is simply connected and has trivial canonical bundle. In these notes we investigate three particular pencils of K3-surfaces with maximal Picard number. More precisely the general member in each pencil has Picard number 19 and each pencil contains four surfaces with Picard number 20. These surfaces are obtained as the minimal resolution of quotients X/G, ...

We deene Picard-Einstein metrics on complex algebraic surfaces as KK ahler-Einstein metrics with negative constant sectional curvature pushed down from the unit ball via Picard modular groups allowing degenerations along cycles. We demonstrate how the tool of orbital heights, especially the Proportionality Theorem presented in H98], works for detecting such orbital cycles on the projective plan...

In this paper, we introduce a modification of the Picard iteration method (PIM) using Padé approximation and so called Picard-Padé technique. Special attention is given to study the convergence analysis of the proposed method. Convergence analysis is reliable enough to estimate the maximum absolute error of the solution given by PIM. A basic enzyme kinetics is used to test the effectiveness of ...

We study deformations of invertible bimodules and the behavior of Picard groups under deformation quantization. While K0-groups are known to be stable under formal deformations of algebras, Picard groups may change drastically. We identify the semiclassical limit of bimodule deformations as contravariant connections and study the associated deformation quantization problem. Our main focus is on...

We classify all smooth projective horospherical varieties with Picard number 1. We prove that the automorphism group of any such variety X acts with at most two orbits and that this group still acts with only two orbits on X blown up at the closed orbit. We characterize all smooth projective two-orbits varieties with Picard number 1 that satisfy this latter property. Mathematics Subject Classif...