A single-epoch low resolution GHRS spectrum of the eclipsing binary Epsilon Aurigae was obtained while the secondary was orbiting towards eclipse by the primary. The spectrum as recorded between 1175—1461 Å is rich with emission and absorption lines which include stellar and interstellar components. The emission line profiles have the appearance of double-peaked emission with a stronger red com...

Analysis of gene expression data provides an objective and efficient technique for sub-classification of leukemia. The purpose of the present study was to design a committee neural networks based classification systems to subcategorize leukemia gene expression data. In the study, a binary classification system was considered to differentiate acute lymphoblastic leukemia from acute myeloid leuke...

This paper investigates optimal constellation labeling in the context of the edge profile. A constellation’s edge profile lists the minimum-distance edge for each binary symbol error. The paper introduces the symmetric-ultracomposite (SU) labeling structure and shows that this structure provides undominated edge profiles for 2 -PSK, 2 -PAM, and 2 -point square QAM. The SU structure is a general...

We analyze velocity profiles of the X-ray spectral lines emitted by the η Carinae (η Car) stellar binary at four epochs, just before the X-ray minimum (associated with periastron) and more than two years before the minimum (∼ apastron). The profiles are nicely resolved by the HETGS spectrometer on board Chandra. Far from periastron, we find symmetrical lines that are more or less centered at ze...

BACKGROUND An increase in the incidence and severity of Clostridium difficile-associated disease in Québec and the United States has been associated with a hypervirulent strain referred to as North American pulsed-field type 1 (NAP1)/027. METHODS In 2005, a prospective study was conducted in 88 Québec hospitals, and 478 consecutive nosocomial isolates of C. difficile were obtained. The isolat...

An analytical version of the discrete-ordinates method (the ADO method) is used to establish concise and particularly accurate solutions to the viscous-slip and the half-space thermal-creep problems for a binary gas mixture. The kinetic equations used to describe the flow are based on the McCormack model for mixtures. In addition to a computation of the viscous-slip and thermal-slip coefficient...

An analytical version of the discrete-ordinates method (the ADO method) is used to establish a concise and particularly accurate solution to the heat-transfer problem in a plane channel for a binary gas mixture described by the McCormack kinetic model. The solution yields for the general (specular-diffuse) case of Maxwell boundary conditions for each of the two species, the density and temperat...

Under certain conditions, during binary mixture adsorption in nanoporous hosts, the concentration of one component may temporarily exceed its equilibrium value. This implies that, in contrast to Fick's Law, molecules must diffuse in the direction of increasing rather than decreasing concentration. Although this phenomenon of 'overshooting' has been observed previously, it is only recently, usin...

An analytical version of the discrete-ordinates method (the ADO method) is used with recently established analytical expressions for the rigid-sphere scattering kernels in a study devoted to the flow of a binary gas mixture in a plane channel. In particular, concise and accurate solutions to basic flow problems in a plane channel driven by temperature, pressure, and concentration gradients and ...

This paper focuses on the dynamical implications of close supermassive black hole binaries both as an example of resonant phase mixing and as a potential explanation of inversions and other anomalous features observed in the luminosity profiles of some elliptical galaxies. The presence of a binary comprised of black holes executing nearly periodic orbits leads to the possibility of a broad reso...