Nosema ceranae infection reduces the fat body lipid reserves in the honeybee Apis mellifera.

Nosema ceranae is an intestinal parasite frequently found in Apis mellifera colonies. This parasite belongs to Microsporidia, a group of obligate intracellular parasites known to be strongly dependent on their host for energy and resources. Previous studies have shown that N.

Anomalous scaling of heterogeneous elastic lines: A picture from sample-to-sample fluctuations.

We study a discrete model of an heterogeneous elastic line with internal disorder, submitted to thermal fluctuations. The monomers are connected through random springs with independent and identically distributed elastic constants drawn from p(k)∼k^{μ-1} for k→0. When μ>1, the scaling of the standard Edwards-Wilkinson model is recovered.

Efficacy of Organ Preservation Strategy by Adjuvant Chemoradiotherapy after Non-Curative Endoscopic Resection for Superficial SCC: A Multicenter Western Study.

Background: In case of high risk of lymph node invasion after endoscopic resection (ER) of superficial esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), adjuvant chemoradiotherapy (CRT) can be an alternative to surgery. We assessed long-term clinical outcomes of adjuvant therapy by CRT after non-curative ER for superficial SCC.

Methods: We performed a retrospective multicenter study.

Generalized Lyapunov exponent for the one-dimensional Schrödinger equation with Cauchy disorder: Some exact results.

We consider the one-dimensional Schrödinger equation with a random potential and study the cumulant generating function of the logarithm of the wave function ψ(x), known in the literature as the "generalized Lyapunov exponent"; this is tantamount to studying the statistics of the so-called "finite-size Lyapunov exponent." The problem reduces to that of finding the leading eigenvalue of a certain nonrandom non-self-adjoint linear operator defined on a somewhat unusual space of functions. We focus on the case of Cauchy disorder, for which we derive a secular equation for the generalized Lyapunov exponent.