We have investigated with extensive Monte Carlo simulations in the isothermal isobaric ensemble a system of N = 8192 elongated attractive–repulsive biaxial Gay–Berne (GB) particles. We have found a uniaxial and biaxial nematic and a biaxial orthogonal smectic phase in this thermotropic model system.

Tuoyu Geng,* Ping Li,* Mitsuharu Okutsu, Xinhe Yin, Jyeyi Kwek, Mei Zhang, and Zhen Yan Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina; Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases Program, Duke-National University of Singapore (NUS) Graduate Medical School, Singapore, Singapore; and Department of Medicine-Cardiovascular Medicine, Center for Skeletal Muscle Research at ...

Monika Østensen, Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital of Berne, Switzerland. Please address correspondence to: Professor Monika Østensen MD, PhD, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology/Allergology, University Hospital, CH-3010 Bern, Switzerland. E-mail: [email protected] Received on November 18, 2008; accepted on November 26, 2008. © Copyright CLINICAL AND EXPERIM...

We study the effect of molecular dipole strength on the polymorphism of smectic A liquid crystals using computer simulations and density functional theory. We find, for a system of polar Gay–Berne particles with an off-centre axial dipole, a change in molecular organisation from non interdigitated to interdigitated (SAd) structure.

Pseudocyst formation, with its attendant complications of compression, rupture, bleeding and fistula formation, is a well known complication of chronic pancreati-tis. In 1966 Berne and Edmondson drew attention to the often fatal outcome of pancreatico-colonic fistula complicated by hemorrhage3. We present two cases of this rare complication of chronic pancreatitis as defined by the Marseille cl...

We have investigated with extensive Monte Carlo simulations in the isothermal isobaric ensemble a system of N = 8192 elongated attractive–repulsive biaxial Gay–Berne (GB) particles. We have found a uniaxial and biaxial nematic and a biaxial orthogonal smectic phase in this thermotropic model system.

We investigate the thermotropic liquid crystal phases formed in a system of biaxial discotic mesogenic Gay-Berne particles with strong in-plane interactions when the attractive and repulsive biaxialities have the same or the opposite sign. We find that a biaxial nematic phase is obtained when the shape and well depth anisotropies have the same sign while we do not observe a columnar phase.

Institution and country of all co-authors (1) Swiss Paediatric Respiratory Research Group, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Berne, Switzerland (2) The Leicester Children's Asthma Centre, Division of Child Health, Department of Infection, Immunity & Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE2 7LX, UK (3) Specialist Community Child Health Services, Leicester C...

Swiss Serum and Vaccine Institute, CH-3001 Berne, Switzerland'U Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University,2 and Department of Pediatrics, Faculty ofMedicine, Chulalongkorn University, 3 BangkoA, Thailand; Chachoengsao Hospital, The Ministry of Public Health, Chachoengsao, Thailand4; and Centerfor Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School ofMedi...

Numerous studies tested whether functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is capable of replacing the Wada test for determination of language dominance. We reviewed 24 studies with 486 patients. The overall mean concordance rate is only about 90%. Furthermore, atypical language dominance is not reliably detected. The objectives of the present study were to develop and validate a new linguist...