Recent observations from the Spitzer Space Telescope enable us to study the mid-infrared dust excess of Asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Using mid-infrared spectra, together with photometric data from the SAGE programme, we establish a colour selection of carbon-rich AGB stars with intermediate and high mass-loss rates. We also established mass-loss rate ...

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is expected to detect N ∼ 22×10 close white dwarf binaries in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) through their gravitational radiation with signal-to-noise ratios greater than ∼10 in observational durations of 3 years or more. In addition to chirp mass, location on the sky, and other binary parameters, the distance to each binary is an independent par...

OBJECTIVE Elevated cell counts and protein levels in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) result from disease activity in patients with leptomeningeal carcinomatosis (LMC). Previous studies evaluated the use of CSF profiles to monitor a treatment response or predict prognosis. CSF profiles vary, however, according to the sampling site and the patient's systemic condition. We compared lumbar and ventricula...

The ARAUCARIA project: Deep near-infrared survey of nearby galaxies. I. The distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud from K-band photometry of red clump stars ABSTRACT We have obtained deep imaging in the near-infrared J and K bands for 2 nearby fields in the bar of the LMC with the ESO NTT telescope, under exquisite seeing conditions. The K, J-K color-magnitude diagrams constructed from these da...

Recent studies on the effect of local mate competition (LMC) on sex ratios have focused on the effect of post-dispersal mating success by males. A higher proportion of males is expected to be produced as the potential for outbreeding increases. Here we demonstrate that males of a haplodiploid ambrosia beetle with LMC disperse to seek additional matings, and brood sex ratios increase with outbre...

The rotation of the disk of the LMC is derived from the radial velocities of 975 carbon stars. The radial component of the disk’s velocity ellipsoid is σR = 28 ± 14 km s . The disk rotates with a true maximum circular velocity of 79 km s after correcting for asymmetric drift. For a typical submaximal disk, the LMC’s dark halo has a mass of 1× 10M⊙ inside of 10 kpc. If the LMC microlensing lens ...

We present V and Ic CCD photometry for 40 LMC Cepheids at 1 to 3 epochs. This represents a significant increase in the number of LMC Cepheids with I-band data, and, as we show, is a useful addition to the sample which can be used to calibrate the period–luminosity relations in these important bands.

Several studies from our laboratory show that axial stretch of the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) in an oral direction causes neurally mediated LES relaxation. Under physiological conditions, axial stretch of the LES is caused by longitudinal muscle contraction (LMC) of the esophagus. Because longitudinal muscle is composed of skeletal muscle in mice, vagal-induced LMC and LES relaxation are ...

We present a detailed map of the reddening in a 1.9◦ × 1.5◦ section of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), constructed from UBV I photometry of 2069 O and B main sequence stars. We use two reddening-free photometric parameters to determine the line-of-sight reddening to these stars. We find a mean reddening, 〈E(B−V )〉LMC = 0.20 mag, with a non-Gaussian tail to high values. When the reddening is c...