View-oriented group communication is an important and widely used building block for many distributed applications. Much current research has been dedicated to specifying the semantics and services of view-oriented Group Communication Systems (GCSs). However, the guarantees of di erent GCSs are formulated using varying terminologies and modeling techniques, and the speci cations vary in their r...

We investigate formation processes and physical properties of globular cluster systems (GCSs) in galaxies based on high-resolution cosmological simulations with globular clusters. We focus on metal-poor clusters (MPCs) and correlations with their host galaxies by assuming that MPC formation is truncated at a high redshift (ztrun ≥ 6). We find that the correlation between mean metallicities (Zgc...

Globular cluster systems (GCSs) are vital tools for investigating the violent star formation histories of their host galaxies. This violence could e.g. have been triggered by galaxy interactions or mergers. The basic observational properties of a GCS are its luminosity function and color distributions (number of clusters per luminosity resp. color bin). A large number of observed GCSs show bimo...

By applying filtering techniques to remove straight filaments in the 20-cm VLA radio image of the Galactic Center Arc region, we have shown that numerous concentric radio shells of radii 5 to 20 pc are surrounding the Pistol and Sickle region, which we call Galactic Center Shells (GCS). Each shell has thermal energy of the order of 10 erg. Several CO-line shells are associated, whose kinetic en...

OBJECTIVE Adherence to physical activity guidelines after cancer diagnosis improves physical functioning. The purpose of this study was to estimate the prevalence of physical activity in a population-based sample of gynecologic cancer survivors (GCSs) and to examine the association between functional impairment and adherence to physical activity guidelines. METHODS Using the 2009 Behavioral R...

Stratocumulus simulation in a 2D Large Eddy Simulation (LES) model is performed, using the CSU−CIMMS LES written by Marat Khairoutdinov and Yefim Kogan. The simulation is for an idealized nighttime stratocumulus−topped PBL described by the initial conditions as given in the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment Cloud System Study (GCSS) results paper (C.−H. Moeng, et. al. 1996.) The GCSS stu...

In this paper, we investigate the entanglement of multi-partite Grassmannian coherent states (GCSs) described by Grassmann numbers for n > 2 degree of nilpotency. Choosing an appropriate weight function, we show that it is possible to construct some wellknown entangled pure states, consisting of GHZ, W, Bell, cluster type and bi-separable states, which are obtained by integrating over tensor pr...

Although glucocorticosteroids (GCSs) have been used for many decades in transplantation and (auto)inflammatory diseases, the exact mechanisms responsible for their immunosuppressive properties are not fully understood. The purpose of this study was to characterize the effects of oral GCSs on the cutaneous immune response. We analyzed, by immunofluorescence staining and quantitative RT-PCR, resi...