Scaling of the homogenous vapor-to-liquid nucleation rate, J, is observed in a model Lennard-Jones (LJ) system. The model uses Monte Carlo simulation-generated small cluster growth to decay rate constant ratios and the kinetic steady-state nucleation rate formalism to determine J at four temperatures below the LJ critical temperature, T{c}. When plotted vs the scaled supersaturation, lnS/[T{c}/...

MB/BacT, BACTEC 460 TB, and Löwenstein-Jensen (LJ) medium were evaluated in parallel for recovery of mycobacteria from 3,700 continuous clinical specimens in a routine laboratory. Mycobacteria were identified from 123 (3.3%) specimens. The recovery rates for all mycobacteria by the different systems were 91.0, 73.0, and 53.6% for BACTEC 460 TB, MB/BacT, and LJ medium, respectively. The recovery...

Zur Lösung der Integrale werden folgende Gleichungen verwendet: dr = sin & d# dg? dxp/S 712 ist das Volumelement des Orientierungskonfigurationsraums; die Integration erfolgt in den Grenzen 0 # jt; 0 ^ ^ 2 ti; ti. U , l{ und lm sind die Richtungskosinus zwischen den Achsen (i, l, m = 1, 2, 3) eines molekülfesten kartesischen Koordinatensystems und den drei Achsen eines raumfesten kartesischen K...

We address the constraints on the SUSY seesaw parameters arising from Lepton Flavour Violation observables. Working in the Constrained Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model extended by three right-handed (s)neutrinos, we study the predictions for the branching ratios of lj → li γ and lj → 3 li channels. We impose compatibility with neutrino data, electric dipole moment bounds, and further requi...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the performance of a low-cost method, the thin layer agar (TLA) method, for the diagnosis of smear-negative patients. This prospective study was performed in Homa Bay District Hospital in Kenya. Out of 1,584 smear-negative sputum samples, 212 (13.5%) were positive by culture in Löwenstein-Jensen medium (LJ) and 220 (14%) were positive by the TLA metho...

The semilattice relevant logics ∪R, ∪T, ∪RW, and ∪TW (slightly different from the orthodox relevant logics R, T, RW, and TW) are defined by “semilattice models” in which conjunction and disjunction are interpreted in a natural way. In this paper, we prove the equivalence between “LK-style” and “LJ-style” labelled sequent calculi for these logics. (LKstyle sequents have plural succedents, while ...

Clinical samples obtained over a period of 8 months (n = 2,624) were processed in parallel with the BACTEC 460TB system, with the MGIT 960 system, and in Löwenstein-Jensen (LJ) medium, resulting in the recovery of 127 mycobacteria. Recovery rates in combinations of the BACTEC 460TB or MGIT 960 system with LJ were, respectively, 94.7 and 94.7% for Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (n = 57) and ...

We report a phase switch Monte Carlo (PSMC) method study of the freezing line of the Lennard-Jones (LJ) fluid. Our work generalizes to soft potentials the original application of the method to hard-sphere freezing and builds on a previous PSMC study of the LJ system by Errington [J. Chem. Phys. 120, 3130 (2004)]. The latter work is extended by tracing a large section of the Lennard-Jones freezi...

In [20] we presented a semantic study of a language LJ that extends Hoares CSP model with communication on multiple channels and synchronization based on join patterns in the style of Join calculus. In this paper we consider a language L2 J that extends LJ with second order communication: sending and receiving of statements rather than values. We employ the mathematical methodology of metric se...

The extraordinary complexity of Lennard-Jones (LJ) clusters, which exhibit numerous structures and "phases" when their size or temperature is varied, presents a great challenge for accurate numerical simulations, even without accounting for quantum effects. To study the latter, we utilize the variational Gaussian wave packet method in conjunction with the exchange Monte Carlo sampling technique...