The results of plasma-ammonium determinations by an ion-exchange method and by a microdiffusion method were compared on the same specimens with each other and with ammonium determinations carried out on the corresponding whole-blood specimens by the microdiffusion method. The plasma-ammonium levels of whole-blood specimens were higher than those of the corresponding plasma specimens, but the di...

In a closed-list proportional-representation system, where votes are cast for a given political party, not for any particular candidate, the seat distribution in the parliament is highly sensitive to small changes in the vote distribution among political parties. This creates randomness in who gets elected as a Member of the Parliament (MP). Using a detailed data set of the MPs in Turkish Parli...

We study nucleon-nucleon scattering on the lattice at next-to-leading order in chiral effective field theory. We determine phase shifts and mixing angles from the properties of two-nucleon standing waves induced by a hard spherical wall in the center-of-mass frame. At fixed lattice spacing we test model independence of the low-energy effective theory by computing next-to-leading-order correctio...

We study the next-to-leading gluon exchange in the high-energy scattering that contributes to the amplitude to order s up to logarithmic corrections. Similar to the leading gluon exchange these contribution can be described in terms of reggeon exchanges. There are several gluonic reggeons at the next-to-leading level. Some of them transfer parity or gauge group representation different from the...

The gauge action of the Lie groupG on the chiral WZNW phase spaceMǦ of quasiperiodic fields with Ǧ-valued monodromy, where Ǧ ⊂ G is an open submanifold, is known to be a Poisson-Lie (PL) action with respect to any coboundary PL structure on G, if the Poisson bracket on MǦ is defined by a suitable monodromy dependent exchange r-matrix. We describe the momentum map for these symmetries when G is ...

During joint operations among multi-national forces it is imperative that the planned courses of action (COA) of coalition units be accurately and precisely communicated between battlefield operating systems, particularly when dealing with highly coordinated maneuvers. A similar need arises in being able to communicate intelligence concerning hypothesized or anticipated enemy courses of action ...

The small x behaviour of polarized parton distributions is related to non-leading reggeons in the framework of the high-energy effective action. Double-logarithmic contributions to the reggeon interaction beyond the ones included in the GLAP equation are encountered in all polarized parton distributions. The transversity distributions of quarks and gluons behave similar at small x. 1 Parton dis...

HLA-DM is required for efficient peptide exchange on class II MHC molecules, but its mechanism of action is controversial. We trapped an intermediate state of class II MHC HLA-DR1 by substitution of αF54, resulting in a protein with increased HLA-DM binding affinity, weakened MHC-peptide hydrogen bonding as measured by hydrogen-deuterium exchange mass spectrometry, and increased susceptibility ...