Anisotropic lattice QCD studies of penta-quarks(5Q) with JP = 1/2± and 3/2± are presented at the quenched level together with tetra-quarks(4Q). The standard gauge action at β = 5.75 and O(a) improved quark (clover) action with κ = 0.1410(0.010)0.1440 are employed on the anisotropic lattice with the renormalized anisotropy as/at = 4. The “hybrid boundary condition(HBC)” is adopted to discriminat...

Influenza A virus (IAV) is a severe worldwide threat to public health and economic development that results in the emergence of drug-resistant or highly virulent strains. Therefore, it is imperative to develop potent anti-IAV drugs with different modes of action to currently available drugs. Herein, we show a new class of antiviral peptides generated by conjugating two known short antiviral pep...

This research was supported in part by an operating grant from NSERC. Let Hn = 1 + 1 2 + + 1 n be the n-th partial sum of the harmonic series. A classical result of Wolstenholme states that, if p > 3 is prime, the numerator of Hp 1 is divisible by p2. Here we consider, for a given prime p, the set Jp of n for which p divides the numerator ofHn. This set Jp had been previously determined for p =...

Malaria is caused by an intracellular protozoan parasite of the genus Plasmodium. The use of chemotherapy, the foremost tool available for the control of the disease, has been challenged in the last decades by the development and spread of drug resistance among malaria parasites. A clear understanding behind the mechanisms of parasite resistance is required for the improvement of treatment effi...

We developed a dataset of local-scale daily climate change scenarios for Japan (called ELPIS-JP) using the stochastic weather generators (WGs) LARS-WG and, in part, WXGEN. The ELPIS-JP dataset is based on the observed (or estimated) daily weather data for seven climatic variables (daily mean, maximum and minimum temperatures; precipitation; solar radiation; relative humidity; and wind speed) at...

In the present paper, we propose new Janardan-Power Series (JPS) class of distributions, which is a result combining Janardan distribution Shanker et.al (2013) with family power series distributions. Here, examine fundamental attributes this distribution, including survival, hazard and reverse functions, limiting behavior cdf pdf, quantile function, moments order statistics. Moreover, particula...

Link based authority analysis is an important tool for ranking resources in social networks and other graphs. Previous work have presented JP , a decentralized algorithm for computing PageRank scores. The algorithm is designed to work in distributed systems, such as peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. However, the dynamics of the P2P networks, one if its main characteristics, is currently not handled ...

This paper reports on measurements of the ion energy distribution (IED) at the cathode of an argon dc microdischarge using energy-resolved molecular beam mass spectrometry. The measurements are conducted at a fixed pressure-electrode separation product (pd) of 1 cm Torr with a maximum discharge pressure of 20 Torr. The measured IED is compared to the theory of Davis and Vanderslice [W. D. Davis...