1Cooperative Research Group for Evidence-Based Public Health (ebph), Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research, University of Bremen and Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology-BIPS, Achterstraße 30, 28359 Bremen, Germany 2Health Sciences Bremen, University of Bremen, Bibliothekstraße 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany 3Institute of Health Service Research and Health Economics, ...

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Rhodococcus equi per se and R. equi containing a virulence-associated plasmid can be cultured with similar frequency from the soil of farms with and without a history of R. equi disease. This finding, in conjunction with variability in results between testing procedures and laboratories, indicates that identification of R. equi by culture from farm soils does not accurately predict the probabil...

Ludek Zurek and Anuradha Ghosh 10 Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology; College of Veterinary Medicine 11 Department of Entomology; College of Agriculture 12 Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506 13 14 15 16 17 18 *Corresponding author 19 Department of Entomology 20 Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology 21 Waters Hall 034 22 Kansas State University 23 Manhattan...

Double-negative T cells (DNTCs; ie, CD3(+)CD4(-)CD8(-) T cells) play a role in limiting chronic immune activation. GB virus C (GBV-C) infection is associated with reduced T-cell activation in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected individuals. T-cell activation and DNTCs were measured in HIV-infected subjects with a nondetectable HIV load. GBV-C-viremic subjects had significantly reduced C...

Let Pn be the order determined by taking a random graph G on {l,2,...,n}, directing the edges from the lesser vertex to the greater (as integers), and then taking the transitive closure of this relation. We call such an ordered set a random graph order. We show that there exist constants c, and a, such that the expected height and set up number of Pn are sharply concentrated around en and cm re...

RESULTS: A total of 315 patients were identified, of which 34.3% underwent lumpectomy, 17.1% underwent mastectomy alone, while 48.6% underwent mastectomy and reconstruction. Lymphedema was diagnosed in 9.2% (n=19) of mastectomy patients and 27.8% (n=30) of lumpectomy patients. Removing >10 nodes in the both the mastectomy (OR=11.4, p=.000) and lumpectomy (OR=5.51, p=.034) cohort was predictive ...

The E155 experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) has performed a precision measurementof the proton and deuteron spin structure function g 1 using deep inelastic scattering of polarized electrons on polarized 15 NH 3 and 6 LiD. g d 1 (x)dx = 0:034 0:002(stat) 0:005(syst) at an average Q 2 = 5 GeV 2 .These preliminary results are in reasonably good agreement with previous dat...

Japan’s hybrid system during the Meiji era of technological modernization provides a useful laboratory for examining whether complementary mechanisms to patents induce innovation. Patents were introduced in 1885 and by 1911 1.2 million mostly non-pecuniary prizes were awarded at 8,503 competitions. Prizes increased patent outcomes by 35 percent, a conservative causal estimate based on the timin...

We extend the Larson–Sweedler theorem for weak Hopf algebras by proving that a finite dimensional weak bialgebra is a weak Hopf algebra iff it possesses a non-degenerate left integral. We establish the autonomous monoidal category of the modules of a weak Hopf algebra A and show the semisimplicity of the unit and the invertible modules of A. We also reveal the connection of these modules to lef...