The potential of breath analysis for clinical diagnosis and the strengths and weaknesses of the analytical methods used are discussed. Special attention is given to selected ion flow tube mass spectrometry, SIFT-MS, using which on-line real-time analyses of single breath exhalations can be carried out. Illustrative data on the concentration distributions of several breath metabolites amongst th...

In the vicinity of the quark-hadron critical point, in the phase diagram of QCD, simple power-law relations constrain the mid-rapidity net-baryon density profile, for different heavy-ion processes, in a unifying scheme. The corresponding scaling variable specifies the proximity of a given experiment to the critical point. An important phenomenological aspect of the critical properties in the ba...

Ionization, pair creation, and electron excitations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions are investigated in the framework of the coupled-channel formalisrn. Collisions between heavy projectiles and pb8*+ are considered for various bombarding energies in the region E =500 up to 2000 MeV/u. Useful symmetry relations for the matrix elements are derived and the influence of gauge transformations o...

Density scaling has a rich history in density functional theory, providing exact conditions for use in the construction of ever more accurate approximations to the unknown exchange-correlation functional. We define a conjugate potential scaling for each density scaling. This provides exact relations on various important density functionals, in particular, relating functionals evaluated on exact...

We aim at finding the minimal set of fragments which achieves maximal parse accuracy in Data Oriented Parsing. Experiments with the Penn Wall Street Journal treebank show that counts of almost arbitrary fragments within parse trees are important, leading to improved parse accuracy over previous models tested on this treebank (a precis ion of 90.8% and a recall of 90.6%). We isolate some depende...

The behavior of the atomic occupation probabilities of the upper and lower levels gained by a two-ion system interacting with a laser field is investigated. At a fixed time the immediate relations of the populations are examined against several physical parameters. It is observed that for some intermediate ranges of the detuning parameters and the coupling strength, the presence of the off-reso...

We employ reversed-phase ion-pair high-performance liquid chromatography to quantitatively characterize the oxidation kinetics of thiourea oxidation by hydrogen peroxide. The HPLC technique makes it possible to monitor the concentrations of a variety of sulfur-containing species with different oxidation states and to elucidate the relative phase relations among them. The experimental results ar...

We have investigated linear and nonlinear dynamics of ion-temperature-gradient driven drift mode for Maxwellian non pair-ion plasma embedded in an inhomogeneous magnetic field having gradients ion's temperature number density. Linear dispersion relations are derived analyzed analytically as well numerically different cases. It has been found that growth rate instability increases with increasin...