ear candling is an alternative medicine practice alleged to enhance general health by putting an end of a hollow candle in the ear canal and lighting up the other end of it. it also is advertised for cerumen and debris (bacteria and fungi) removal. ear candling is claimed to create negative pressure for drawing cerumen from the ear and to benefit the ears in many ways. it is however not free of...

Microtubule Affinity-Regulating Kinase 2 (MARK2) protein has a substantial role in regulation of vital cellular processes like induction of polarity, regulation of cell junctions, cytoskeleton structure and cell differentiation. The abnormal function of this protein has been associated with a number of pathological conditions like Alzheimer disease, autism, several carcinomas and development of...

We consider the thermodynamics of minimally coupled massive scalar field in 3+1 dimensional constant curvature black hole background. The brick wall model of ’t Hooft is used. When Scharzschild like coordinates are used it is found that apart from the usual radial brick wall cut-off parammeter an angular cut-off parameter is required to regularize the solution. Free energy of the scalar field i...

In a recent paper we derived an expression for the replicated free energy of a liquid of hard spheres based on the HNC free energy functional. An approximate equation of state for the glass and an estimate of the random close packing density were obtained in d = 3. Here we show that the HNC approximation is not needed: the same expression can be obtained from the full diagrammatic expansion of ...

We introduce a random walk in random environment associated to an underlying directed polymer model in 1+1 dimensions. This walk is the positive temperature counterpart of the competition interface of percolation and arises as the limit of quenched polymer measures. We prove this limit for the exactly solvable log-gamma polymer, as a consequence of almost sure limits of ratios of partition func...

Valiant proposed an O(n 2) time algorithm which reduces the recognition problem for context-free languages (CFLs) to the boolean matrices multiplication problem. By this algorithm, the recognition problem for CFLs can be solved in O(maxfn 2 ; M(n)g) time where n is the length of an input string and M(k) is the time needed for multiplying two k k boolean matrices. The best known value for M(k) i...

We consider the thermodynamics of minimally coupled massive scalar field in 3+1 dimensional Reissner-Nordstrom de Sitter black hole background. The brick wall model of ’t Hooft is used. When Schwarzschild like coordinates are used it is found that two radial brick wall cut-off parameters are required to regularize the solution. Free energy of the scalar field is obtained through counting of sta...