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FORTY MILES from Dublin at Castlebellingham on the coast of Co. Louth, Gordon Morgan Holmes was born in Dillon House on 22 February 1876. A scholar at Trinity College Dublin, he graduated B.A. in 1897, being senior moderator and gold medallist, and qualified in medicine the following year. After serving as a resident medical officer in the Richmond Asylum (now St. Brendan's Hospital), he studie...

In this paper, we consider the Cauchy problem for Klein-Gordon equation with a cubic convolution nonlinearity in R. Making use of Bourgain’s method in conjunction with precise Strichartz estimates of S.Klainerman and D.Tataru, we establish the Hs-global well-posedness with s < 1 of the Cauchy problem for the cubic convolution defocusing Klein-Gordon-Hartree equation, inspired by I. Gallagher an...

We investigate a perturbation of a scalar field model (called here the signum-Gordon model) with the potential V (f) = |f |. The perturbation generalizes the signum-Gordon model to the signum-Klein-Gordon model i.e. to the case V (f) = |f | − 1 2λf 2, where λ is a small parameter. Such a generalization breaks the scaling symmetry of the signum-Gordon model. In this paper we concentrate on solut...

The matrix sine-Gordon theory, a matrix generalization of the well-known sine-Gordon theory, is studied. In particular, the A3-generalization where fields take value in SU(2) describes integrable deformations of conformal field theory corresponding to the coset SU(2)× SU(2)/SU(2). Various classical aspects of the matrix sine-Gordon theory are addressed. We find exact solutions, solitons and bre...

as well as Rickettsia prowazeki onto cell monolayers will increase the sensitivity of cell culture several fold. Using centrifugal force to facilitate the precipitation of infective particles onto irradiated McCoy cells, Gordon, Magruder, Quan, and Arm (1963) and Gordon, Dressler, and Quan (1967) developed a cell culture technique as an alternative to cultivation in the yolk sac of fertile eggs...