Electronic structure theory under the influence of apolar solvents suffers from substantial methodical difficulties since in this case the solvent-induced solute polarization originates mainly from specific directional interactions and higher electric multipoles. Continuum solvation models based on the dielectric solvent response such as the PCM approach ignore such interactions and can therefo...

Sodium-ion batteries are a promising class of secondary power sources that can replace some the lithium-ion, lead–acid, and other types in large-scale applications. One critical parameters for their potential use is high efficiency wide temperature range, particularly below 0 °C. This article analyzes phase equilibria electrochemical properties sodium-ion battery electrolytes based on NaPF6 sol...

Community-acquired meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) is becoming an important public-health problem. This study attempted to investigate S. aureus and MRSA colonization in nasal swabs obtained from 843 patients without a history of hospitalization at the time of hospital admission and from 72 health-care workers chosen for comparison. Of the patients, S. aureus was detected i...

This paper is devoted to the non-symmetric channels. Here we will present t-EC-AUED codes. Böinck and van Tilborg gave a bound on the length of binary t-EC-AUED codes. A generalization of this bound to arbitrary alphabet size is given. This generalized Böinck van Tilborg bound, combined with constructions, is used to determine the length of some optimal binary and ternary t-EC-AUED codes. The s...

In betting markets, the expected return on longshot bets tends to be systematically lower than on favorite bets. This favorite-longshot bias is a widely documented empirical fact, often perceived to be an important deviation from the market efficiency hypothesis. This chapter presents an overview of the main theoretical explanations for this bias proposed in the literature. ∗London Business Sch...

Acute psychiatric illness is associated with alterations of serum thyroid hormone levels including normal or high T3 levels and elevated T4 levels with normal or high TSH that have no clinical signs or symptoms and resolve within 2 weeks. This phenomenon is called euthyroid hyperthyroxinemia. We present a case of primary hyperparathyroidism contributing to a patient’s depression with psychosis ...