Self-assembled multivalent vancomycin on cell surfaces against vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE)

A vancomycin (Van) derivative self-assembles in a phosphate buffer as a divalent Van and on cell surfaces as a multivalent Van, which offers potent activity against VRE.     

A remark on convex functions andp-harmonic maps

We prove that the constant maps are the onlyp-harmonic maps for anyp 2 from an arbitrary compact Riemannian manifold into a complete Riemannian manifold which admits a strictly convex function.     

Subtleties in data analysis related to the size of critical region

We comment on the analysis of the critical behavior of a layered driven diffusive system recently done by Achahbar and Marro. We discuss why we believe their method of taking the thermodynamic limit and determining the order-parameter exponent leads to unreliable estimates.     

A Construction of Partial Difference Sets in {\mathbb{Z}}_{p^{2 \times } } {\mathbb{Z}}_{p^{2 \times \cdot \cdot \cdot \times } } {\mathbb{Z}}_{p^2 }

In this paper, we give a construction of partial difference sets in _p ² x _p ² x ... x _p ²using some finite local rings.Dedicated to Hanfried Lenz on the occasion of his 80th birthdayThe work of this paper was done when the authors visited the University of Hong Kong.     

On generalized quadratic equations in three prime variables

Leta ₁,a ₂ anda ₃ be any nonzero integers which are relatively prime and not all negative. In this paper, as a parallel problem of [11] for each integerk≥2, we consider the setE(X) of positive integersb≤X which satisfy the condition of congruent solubility and that the equation $$a_1 p_1^2 + a_2 p_2^2 + a_3 p_3^k = b$$ is insoluble in primesp _j. We obtain CardE(X)≤X ^1-ε. Our result extends the wellknown classical results (by Legendre and Gauss and byDavenport andHeilbronn [2]) on the equation $$x_1^2 + x_2^2 + x_3^k = b$$ in integral variablesx _j with the above bound for CardE(X) better than that in [2].