Allergic rhinitis is a symptomatic disorder of the nose induced after allergen exposure by an
immunoglobulin E (IgE)-mediated inflammation of the membranes lining the nose (1). It was …

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) remains a major public health problem. It is
the fourth leading cause of chronic morbidity and mortality in the United States, and is …

… -k”) material such as SrTiO3 (k=300 is the dielectric constant; =k−1 is the permittivity; for k 1
… The second approach is to use a material of moderate k (of order 20), with HfO2 favored but …

… (T C ) between 570 and 990 K] in the ground state (3… K) and ferroelectric (T C ∼ 450 K) (5–
7). The perovskite BiFeO 3 is ferroelectric (T C ∼ 1103 K) and antiferromagnetic (T N ∼ 643 K…

… we used 256 k points in Briliouin … k points in the Brillouin zone (44 in the irreducible sector)
and a cutoff energy of 50Ry, the value predicted by the atomic calculation. The enlarged k …

Ferroelectric ferromagnets are exceedingly rare, fundamentally interesting multiferroic materials
that could give rise to new technologies in which the low power and high speed of field-…

… and Vanderbilt, Chandra and Littlewood, Rabe and Ghosez, and Spaldin together cover
the … ), first principles studies of ferroelectrics (Rabe and Ghosez), and the novel physics of …

Obesity is associated with an array of health problems in adult and pediatric populations.
Understanding the pathogenesis of obesity and its metabolic sequelae has advanced rapidly …

… 90 K to the 60 K superconductor. We propose that different vacancy ordering schemes have
their own characteristic T~. between 90 K and 60 K. We also believe that the 60 K plateau …

… functions along a densely sampled string of neighboring points in k space. Here we use
four symmetrized strings consisting of 15 k points to obtain the electronic contribution to the …