BACKGROUND Swimming in chlorinated pools involves exposure to disinfection by-products (DBPs) and has been associated with impaired respiratory health. OBJECTIVES We evaluated short-term changes in several respiratory biomarkers to explore mechanisms of potential lung damage related to swimming pool exposure. METHODS We measured lung function and biomarkers of airway inflammation [fractiona...

We study the effective monopole action obtained in the Maximal Abelian projection of quenched SU(2) lattice QCD. We determine the quadratic part of the lattice action using analytical blocking from continuum dual superconductor model to the lattice model. The leading contribution to the quadratic action depends explicitly on value of the monopole condensate. We show that the analytical monopole...

S. K. Steinke,1,2 S. Singh,3 P. Meystre,1 K. C. Schwab,2 and M. Vengalattore4 1B2 Institute, Department of Physics and College of Optical Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA 2Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, MC 128-95, Pasadena, California 91125, USA 3Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for ...

INTRODUCTION Microextraction processes with UV-Vis measurement have been developed and validated for analysis of bosentan in biological samples. METHODS In this work, liquid-liquid microextraction procedures (DLLME & USAEME) were employed for cleanup, pre-concentration, and determination of bosentan in biological samples by UV-Vis spectroscopy at 270 nm. The method was validated and applied t...

We examine the validity of the notion of the coherent state for pions and the quantum scattering eeect in the nal state of pion emission. When the number of particles is large, the eeect caused by the small but nite mass difference between the neutral and charged pions can add up substantially in the quantum evolution of an initially coherent state. As a result, the states with quite diierent n...

A Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), the first of which was shown experimentally 22 years ago, isn’t your garden variety state of matter. It formed at a fraction above absolute zero and only in atoms that act like bosons, one of two types of fundamental particles. Bosons don’t follow the Pauli exclusion principle, which prohibits twoparticles from existing in the same quantum state. When bosonic a...

The time evolution of initially formed large amplitude bubble of disoriented chiral condensate (DCC) is studied. It is found that the evolution of this object may have a relatively long pre-decay stage. Simple explanation of such delay of the DCC bubble decay is given. This delay is related to the existence of the approximate solutions of multi-soliton type of the corresponding radial sine-Gord...

Charge distribution of pions in multiple production processes drew much attention recently. The growth of interest in this subject is due to expectations to detect the disoriented chiral condensate (DCC) formation in high energy collisions . The simplest picture of the process is given by ”Baked Alaska scenario” , where coherent pulses of semiclassical pion field are emitted leading to anomalou...

The dual superconductor picture [1] of the QCD vacuum is based on the existence of Abelian monopoles which appear naturally in an Abelian gauge. There are various indications that the monopoles are responsible for the color confinement (for a review, see Ref. [2]). One of the most important results is the observation of the monopole condensate in the confinement phase [3,4]. The monopole trajec...