We compare the plasma and cavitation dynamics underlying pulsed laser microsurgery in water and in fruit fly embryos (in vivo)--specifically for nanosecond pulses at 355 and 532 nm. We find two key differences. First, the plasma-formation thresholds are lower in vivo--especially at 355 nm--due to the presence of endogenous chromophores that serve as additional sources for plasma seed electrons....

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Vol. XLIII (August 2006), 355–365 355 © 2006, American Marketing Association ISSN: 0022-2437 (print), 1547-7193 (electronic) *Yuanping Ying is Assistant Professor of Marketing, School of Management, University of Texas, Dallas (e-mail: [email protected]). Fred Feinberg is Hallman Fellow and Bank One Corporation Associate Professor of Marketing, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University o...

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aminotransferases (AT) (4to 19-fold normal) known last 6 months. She had positive HCV-RNA by RT-PCR an untypable genotype. Liver biopsy revealed chronic active hepatitis grade 2, stage 2. She also had Hashimoto s thyroiditis with high titres of antithyroid antibodies. After 12 weeks of treatment with Intron A 3MU TIW and RBV 1000 mg/d, HCV RNA was negative and AT fluctuated between normal and 2...

Heegner divisors play an important role in number theory. However little is known on whether a modular form has Heegner zeros. In this paper, we start to study this question for a family of classical theta functions, and prove a quantitative result, which roughly says that many of these theta functions have a Heegner zero of discriminant −7. This leads to some interesting questions on the arith...