churg-strauss syndrome (css) is a granulomatous small vessel vasculitis . it is characterized by asthma, allergic granulomatosis and vasculitis . this syndrome is rare in children. a 5 years old boy was admitted with cough, fever and dyspnea for 2 weeks. on the basis of  laboratory data (peripheral eosinophilia), associated with skin biopsy, and history of css in his sister, this disease was ev...

Due to its capability to resist jamming signals, chirp spread spectrum (CSS) technique has attracted much attention in the area of wireless communications. However, there has been little rigorous analysis for the performance of the CSS communication system in jamming environments. In this paper, we present analytic results on the performance of a CSS system by deriving symbol error rate (SER) e...

Graph theory based methods are powerful means for representing structural systems so that their geometry and topology can be understood clearly. The combination of graph theory based methods and some metaheuristics can offer effective solutions for complex engineering optimization problems. This paper presents a Charged System Search (CSS) algorithm for the free shape optimizations of thin-wall...

We discuss CSS radio galaxies from 2 samples of radio sources. The rst sample is a complete sample of 28 3CR galaxies with redshifts in the range 0:6 < z < 1:8 for which we have HST, UKIRT and VLA imaging data. The 2 CSS galaxies contained in this sample, 3C49 and 3C241, appear to be less active than galaxies with radio sizes of order 50{100 kpc, but similar in activity to galaxies with radio s...

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The barrel vaults are composed of member elements arranged on a cylindrical surface. This kind of structure is utilized to cover the long spans. In this paper, the hybrid charge system search and particle swarm optimization algorithm is improved and utilized to optimal design of single-layer barrel vault frames. Some modifications on parameter values are performed to enhance the performance of ...

It is an ill-posed problem to recover the true scene colors from a color biased image by discounting the effects of scene illuminant and camera spectral sensitivity (CSS) at the same time. Most color constancy (CC) models have been designed to first estimate the illuminant color, which is then removed from the color biased image to obtain an image taken under white light, without the explicit c...

Intercrosses between inbred lines provide a traditional approach to analysis of polygenic inheritance in model organisms. Chromosome substitution strains (CSS) have been developed as an alternative to accelerate the pace of gene identification in quantitative trait mapping. We compared a classical intercross and three CSS intercrosses to examine the genetic architecture underlying plasma high-d...

OBJECTIVE We investigated the prevalence and clinical-radiologic associations of cortical superficial siderosis (cSS) in patients with probable cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) compared to those with intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) not attributed to CAA. METHODS We conducted a retrospective multicenter cohort study of 120 patients with probable CAA and 2 comparison groups: 67 patients with ei...

We encountered an unusual and rare case of 59-year-old woman with Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) showing myeloperoxidase anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (MPO-ANCA)-related acute renal insufficiency accompanied by eosinophilic tubulointerstitial nephritis. To date, reports in English of CSS presenting with rapidly progressive/acute renal insufficiency and biopsy-proven renal lesions have been...