Cardinal characteristics for Menger-bounded subgroups

Machura, Shelah and Tsaban showed in [M. Machura, S. Shelah, B. Tsaban, Squares of Menger-bounded groups, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., in press, http://arxiv.org/pdf/math.GN/0611353, 2007] that under the condition, that a relative d^′(P) of the dominating number is at least d, there are subgroups of the Baer-Specker group whose kth power is Menger-bounded and whose (k+1)st power is not. We show that the sufficient condition implies r?d and indeed can be replaced by r?d. This result includes an affirmative answer to a question by Tsaban on a possibly weaker still sufficient condition. We show that it is consistent relative to ZFC that g?r<d and there are subgroups of the Baer-Specker group whose kth power is Menger-bounded and whose (k+1)st power is not.     

Ueber quantitative Kreatin- und Kreatininbestimmung im Muskelfleisch

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Quantification of drug-loaded magnetic nanoparticles in rabbit liver and tumor after in vivo administration

Magnetic nanoparticles have been investigated for biomedical applications for more than 30 years. The development of biocompatible nanosized drug delivery systems for specific targeting of therapeutics is imminent in medical research, especially for treating cancer and vascular diseases. We used drug-labeled magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles, which were attracted to an experimental tumor in rabbits with an external magnetic field (magnetic drug targeting, MDT). Aim of this study was to detect and quantify the biodistribution of the magnetic nanoparticles by magnetorelaxometry. The study shows higher amount of nanoparticles in the tumor after intraarterial application and MDT compared to intravenous administration.     

Behavior of Adhesively Bonded Concrete-CFRP Joints at Low and High Temperatures

This paper presents an evaluation of the results obtained from an initial study carried out at the IBMB, Technical University of Braunschweig, on the influence of temperature on adhesively bonded plate-concrete joint systems. The results of a theoretical model are also presented. The type of specimen used in this study is a three-point bending beam. The concrete specimens were prismatic in form, 100 × 100 × 700 mm without an internal steel reinforcement, strengthened at the intradoss with two types of UD CFRP lamina 20 mm wide and 590 mm long of thickness 1.4 mm for the E = 300 GPa type and 1.24 mm for the E = 175 GPa type. The plate-bonded specimens were designed to produce bending failure under a load, by not bonding the lamina and the concrete around the midspan of the specimens. The specimens were tested to failure at –100°, –30°, and +40°C after an approximately homogeneous temperature distribution within the concrete specimen has been reached. For comparison only, specimens of the same type were tested to failure at room temperature. The results obtained showed varying behavior of the bonded plate-concrete joint depending on variations in temperature. Furthermore, they showed different failure mechanisms. Greater reductions in the ultimate bond force were recorded for the test specimens strengthened with lamina having a high elastic modulus. A reasonable correlation was found between the experimental and theoretical results.     

Convergence rate for the Bayesian inversion theory

Recently, the metrics of Ky Fan and Prokhorov were introduced as a tool for studying convergence of regularization methods for stochastic ill-posed problems. In this work, we examine the Bayesian approach to linear inverse problems in this new framework. We consider the finite-dimensional case where the measurements are disturbed by an additive normal noise and the prior distribution is normal. A convergence rate result for the posterior distribution is obtained when the covariance matrices are proportional to the identity matrix. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)