Introduction. Epilepsy continues to increase worldwide but, unfortunately, many high school students have inadequate knowledge of and negative beliefs towards the disease. We aimed to assess the knowledge, beliefs, and practices of epilepsy among high school students of Central Nepal. Materials and Methods. A cross-sectional study was performed involving 1360 high school students from 33 privat...

The products synthesized from a hybrid polyketide synthase/nonribosomal peptide synthetase gene cluster in the genome of Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf-5 were identified using a genomics-guided strategy involving insertional mutagenesis and subsequent metabolite profiling. Five analogs of rhizoxin, a 16-member macrolide with antifungal, phytotoxic, and antitumor activities, were produced by Pf-5, b...

We report a novel PbS/Er co-doped silica fiber (PEDF) with improved spectral properties in O-band (1260–1360 nm). The results show that the gain of PEDF exceeds 15 dB range 1150–1360 nm. Compared to PbS-doped fiber, has improvement 6.4–10.9 O-band. In addition, concentration Pb and S core is significantly higher, size distribution PbS nanoparticles more concentrated narrow range. These factors ...

Several methods have been employed to synthesize SiC nanowires. The methods include heating silica gel or fumed silica with activated carbon in a reducing atmosphere, the carbon particles being produced in situ in one of the methods. The simplest method to obtain b-SiC nanowires involves heating silica gel with activated carbon at 1360 uC in H2 or NH3. The same reaction, if carried out in the p...

Financial/Actuarial Mathematics Wednesday, August 26, 2015, 3:00pm-4:00pm 1360 East Hall Katsumasa Nishide (Yokohama National University) Heston-Type Stochastic Volatility with a Markov Switching Regime We construct a Heston-type stochastic volatility model with a Markov switching regime to price a plain-vanilla stock option. A semi-analytic solution, which contains a matrix ODE is obtained and...