Given a topological space T and a finite subset T0 of T , we associate two graphs with T and T0 that, under rather mild conditions, turn out to be a block graph and a tree, respectively. This construction is of interest, e.g., in the context of phylogenetic analysis where T may model a full ‘‘orbit’’ of a dynamical branching process, and T0 the set of its branching points. © 2008 Elsevier Ltd. ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Thrombolysis depends on the ability of blood and thrombolytic agents to permeate thrombus. We devised a novel technique to quantify blood permeating through thrombi and determine whether this parameter predicts early recanalization with intravenous tissue-type plasminogen activator. METHODS Intravenous tissue-type plasminogen activator-treated patients with stroke and c...

Human cardiac actin mutants E99K and A230V were expressed with baculovirus/insect cells and used to reconstitute the thin-filament of bovine cardiac (BVC) muscle fibers, together with tropomyosin (Tm) and troponin (Tn) purified from bovine ventricles. Effects of [Ca(2+)], [ATP], and [phosphate] on tension and its transients were studied at 25°C. In the absence of Tm/Tn, both mutants significant...

PURPOSE To evaluate the effect of chronic hepatitis C and antiviral therapy on health-related quality of life (HRQoL), depression symptoms and cytokine patterns. METHODS Twenty HCV+ patients treated with peginterferon plus ribavirin were enrolled in this cohort study and invited to complete SF-12 and BDI questionnaires prior to (T0) and at the end of the treatment (T1). HCV-RNA, serum levels ...

The T0 temperature in steel is defined as that at which ferrite and austenite of the same chemical composition have identical free energy. The T0 temperature is that below which it is possible for austenite to transform to ferrite of the same chemical composition after allowing for the strain energy due to the displacements associated with the transformation. Bainite is expected below the T0 te...

Open AccessEngineering NotesState Transition Tensors for Continuous-Thrust Control of Three-Body Relative MotionJackson Kulik, William Clark and Dmitry SavranskyJackson KulikCornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850*Ph.D. Candidate, Center Applied Mathematics; .Search more papers by this author, ClarkCornell 14850†Visiting Assistant Professor, Mathematics.Search author SavranskyCornell 14850‡A...

We present a conjugate invariant method for completing any T0-quasi-metric space. The completion is built as an extension of the bicompletion of the original space. For balanced T0-quasi-metric spaces our completion yields up to isometry the completion due to Doitchinov. The question which uniformly continuous maps between T0-quasimetric spaces can be extended to the constructed completions lea...

This paper characterizes the possible blow-up of solutions for 3D magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD short) equations. We first establish some ϵ-regularity criteria in Lq,∞ spaces suitable weak solutions, and then together with an embedding theorem from Lp,∞ space into a Morrey type we characterize local behaviors near potential singular point. More precisely, show that if z0=(t0,x0) is point, any r>0 ...

and Applied Analysis 3 Motivated by 14, 15 , here we study the existence of AL-solutions for 1.1 . The approach is completely different from the one used in 15 , in which an iteration process, jointly with a comparison with the linear equation y 4 q t y 2 0, is employed. Our tools are based on a topological method, certain integral inequalities, and some auxiliary functions. In particular, for ...

and Applied Analysis 3 In BVP 1.4 – 1.6 , it can be found that the boundary condition 1.5 is dependent on all the x a , x b , x′ a , and x′ b terms. First, existence and uniqueness of solutions of BVP 1.4 – 1.6 is established by combining the method of upper and lower solutions with LeraySchauder degree theory. Then, the general quasilinearization method is applied to construct the approximatio...