At nuclear matter density, electrically neutral strongly interacting matter in weak equilibrium is made of neutrons, protons and electrons. At sufficiently high density, such matter is made of up, down and strange quarks in the colorflavor locked phase, with no electrons. As a function of increasing density (or, perhaps, increasing depth in a compact star) other phases may intervene between the...

At asymptotic high density and low temperature quarks form Cooper pairs in a color-flavor locked (CFL) configuration. The diquark condensates break spontaneously the baryon symmetry, and this fact makes the CFL phase also superfluid. At low temperatures the transport properties are dominated by the contribution of the superfluid phonon, the Goldstone boson associated to baryon symmetry breaking...

We study time step restrictions due to linear stability constraints of Runge-Kutta Discontinuous Galerkin methods on triangular grids. The scalar advection equation is discretized in space by the Discontinuous Galerkin method with either the Lax-Friedrichs flux or the upwind flux, and integrated in time with various Runge-Kutta schemes designed for linear wave propagation problems or non-linear...

The hyaline inclusions in the pigmented ganglion cells of the substantia nigra and the locus coeruleus in patients suffering from idiopathic paralysis agitans are known as Lewy bodies after their discoverer, Lewy (1913). A detailed description of these bodies was presented by Greenfield and Bosanquet in 1953. The intracytoplasmic bodies are always surrounded by a light halo, and often have a ce...

We consider semidiscrete and fully discrete conservative finite volume schemes approximating the solution to one dimensional scalar conservation law. We show that all E-schemes are associated with a discrete kinetic formulation with a nonnegative kinetic defect measure. This construction provides an alternative proof of the discrete local entropy inequalities with simple expressions of the disc...

The possibility of an association between Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease has been examined by studying the age-specific prevalence of Lewy bodies in the substantia nigra in a group of 273 control cases without Parkinson's disease and 121 cases of Alzheimer's disease. The substantia nigra was also studied in 14 cases of Down's syndrome, 13 of which had cortical Alzheimer pathology. ...

It is well known that autonomic failure is severer in patients with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) compared with patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). According to the Braak's hypothesis, Lewy bodies first appear in the olfactory bulb or peripheral autonomic nervous system. Lewy bodies in the peripheral autonomic nervous system ascend to dorsal motor nuclei of vagus nerve, while those in the...

We describe the crystalline phase of color superconducting quark matter. This phase may occur in quark matter at densities relevant for compact star physics, with possible implications for glitch phenomena in pulsars [ 1]. We use a Ginzburg-Landau approach to determine that the crystal has a face-centered-cubic (FCC) structure [ 2]. Moreover, our results indicate that the phase is robust, with ...

Lewy body diseases are characterized by the presence of Lewy bodies, alpha-synuclein(AS)-positive inclusions in the brain. Since their main component is conformationally modified AS, aggregation of the latter is thought to be a key pathogenic event in these diseases. The analysis of inclusion body constituents gives additional information about pathways also involved in the pathology of synucle...