The phylum Microsporidia is a large group of parasitic unicellular eukaryotes that infect a wide range of invertebrate and vertebrate taxa. These organisms are significant human and veterinary pathogens with impacts on medicine, agriculture and aquaculture. Scientists working on these pathogens represent diverse disciplines that have had limited opportunities for detailed interactions. A NATO Advanced Research Workshop 'Emergent Pathogens in the 21st Century: First United Workshop on Microsporidia from Invertebrate and Vertebrate Hosts' was held July 12-15, 2004 at the Institute of Parasitology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic to bring together experts in insect, fish, veterinary and human microsporidiosis for the exchange of information on these pathogens. At this meeting, discussions were held on issues related to taxonomy and phylogeny. It was recognized that microsporidia are related to fungi, but the strong opinion of the participants was that the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature should continue to be applied for taxonomic descriptions of the Microsporidia and that they be treated as an independent group emerging from a paraphyletic fungi. There continues to be exponential growth in the pace and volume of research on these ubiquitous intracellular protists. The small genomes of these organisms and the reduction in the size of many of their genes are of interest to many disciplines. Many microsporidia are dimorphic and the mechanisms underlying these morphologic changes remain to be elucidated. Epidemiologic studies to clarify the source of human microsporidiosis and ecologic studies to understand the multifaceted relationship of the Microsporidia and their hosts are important avenues of investigation. Studies on the Microsporidia should prove useful to many fields of biologic investigation.
Fuchs and collaborators [1, 2] showed that when a high voltage is applied between two electrodes, immersed in two beakers containing twice distilled water, a water bridge between the two containers is formed. We observed that a copper ions flow can pass through the bridge if the negative electrode is a copper electrode. The direction of the flux is not only depending on the direction of the applied electrostatic field but on the relative electronegativity of the electrodes too. The fact seems to suggest new perspectives in understanding the structure of water and the mechanisms concerning the arising of ions fluxes in living matter.
For two vertices $u$ and $v$ of a connected graph $G$, the set $I(u, v)$ consists of all those vertices lying on a $u$–$v$ geodesic in $G$. For a set $S$ of vertices of $G$, the union of all sets $I(u,v)$ for $u, v \in S$ is denoted by $I(S)$. A set $S$ is a convex set if $I(S) = S$. The convexity number $\mathop {\mathrm con}(G)$ of $G$ is the maximum cardinality of a proper convex set of $G$. A convex set $S$ in $G$ with $|S| = \mathop {\mathrm con}(G)$ is called a maximum convex set. A subset $T$ of a maximum convex set $S$ of a connected graph $G$ is called a forcing subset for $S$ if $S$ is the unique maximum convex set containing $T$. The forcing convexity number $f(S, \mathop {\mathrm con})$ of $S$ is the minimum cardinality among the forcing subsets for $S$, and the forcing convexity number $f(G, \mathop {\mathrm con})$ of $G$ is the minimum forcing convexity number among all maximum convex sets of $G$. The forcing convexity numbers of several classes of graphs are presented, including complete bipartite graphs, trees, and cycles. For every graph $G$, $f(G, \mathop {\mathrm con}) \le \mathop {\mathrm con}(G)$. It is shown that every pair $a$, $ b$ of integers with $0 \le a \le b$ and $b \ge 3$ is realizable as the forcing convexity number and convexity number, respectively, of some connected graph. The forcing convexity number of the Cartesian product of $H \times K_2$ for a nontrivial connected graph $H$ is studied.
For an ordered set W = {w1, w2,...,wk} of vertices and a vertex v in a connected graph G, the (metric) representation of v with respect to W is the k-vector r(v|W)=(d(v,w1), d(v, w2),...,d(v, wk)), where d(x, y) represents the distance between the vertices x and y. The set W is a resolving set for G if distinct vertices of G have distinct representations. A resolving set of minimum cardinality is a basis for G and the number of vertices in a basis is its (metric) dimension dim(G). For a basis W of G, a subset S of W is called a forcing subset of W if W is the unique basis containing S. The forcing number fG(W, dim) of W in G is the minimum cardinality of a forcing subset for W, while the forcing dimension f(G, dim) of G is the smallest forcing number among all bases of G. The forcing dimensions of some well-known graphs are determined. It is shown that for all integers a, b with 0 ≤ a ≤ b and b ≥1, there exists a nontrivial connected graph G with f(G) = a and dim(G) = b if and only if {a, b} ≠ {0, 1}.
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In this paper, it is proved that the Fourier integral operators of order $m$, with $-n < m \leq -(n-1)/2$, are bounded from three kinds of Hardy spaces associated with Herz spaces to their corresponding Herz spaces.
Doctor David J. Webb MD, DSc, FRCP, FRSE, FMedSci, a clinical pharmacologist specialising in the management of cardiovascular disease, is the recipient of The Fourth Tomoh Masaki Award , a bi-annual prize presented on the occasion of the International Conferences on Endothelin to scientists for outstanding contributions and achievements in the field of endothelin research. The Fourth Tomoh Masaki Award was presented to Doctor Webb at the Fifteenth International Conference on Endothelin which was held at Duo Hotel, Prague, Czech Republic, in October 2017. The award was granted to Dr. Webb during the Award Ceremony in Troja Chateau “In Recognition of his Outstanding Contributions to Science and Endothelin Research in Particular”. This article summarises the career and the scientific achievements of David J. Webb viewed by his former student Dr. Neeraj Dhaun, known to everybody as ‘Bean’., N. Dhaun., and Seznam literatury
It is well known that every $x\in (0,1]$ can be expanded to an infinite Lüroth series in the form of $$x=\frac {1}{d_1(x)}+\cdots +\frac {1}{d_1(x)(d_1(x)-1)\cdots d_{n-1}(x)(d_{n-1}(x)-1)d_n(x)}+\cdots , $$ where $d_n(x)\geq 2$ for all $n\geq 1$. In this paper, sets of points with some restrictions on the digits in Lüroth series expansions are considered. Mainly, the Hausdorff dimensions of the Cantor sets $$ F_{\phi }=\{x\in (0,1]\colon d_n(x)\geq \phi (n), \ \forall n\geq 1\} $$are completely determined, where $\phi $ is an integer-valued function defined on $\mathbb N$, and $\phi (n)\to \infty $ as $n\to \infty $.