We define and study two-dimensional, chiral conformal field theory by the methods of algebraic field theory. We start by characterizing the vacuum sectors of such theories and show that, under very general hypotheses, their algebras of local observables are isomorphic to the unique hyperfinite type III1 factor. The conformal net determined by the algebras of local observables is proven to satis...

This review reports main progresses in various pediatric issues published in Italian Journal of Pediatrics and in international journals in 2016. New insights in clinical features or complications of several disorders may be useful for our better understanding. They comprise severe asthma, changing features of lupus erythematosus from birth to adolescence, celiac disease, functional gastrointes...

In 1981 at the Festschrift honoring the many contributions of David W. Smith, I presented a unique pair of siblings with a distinctive pattern of malformation. The paper from this presentation was published as part of a series in the Journal of Pediatrics [Carey et al., 1982], and this condition has come to be called the Carey–Fineman–Ziter syndrome (CFZ). The described disorder included the fo...

Mice were generated with targeted disruptions in the hoxb-1 gene. Two separate mutations were created: the first disrupts only the homeodomain and the second inactivates the first exon as well as the homeodomain. The phenotypes associated with these two mutant alleles are indistinguishable in surviving adult mice. The predominant defect in these mutant mice is a failure to form the somatic moto...

We study the Fourier-Walsh spectrum {μ̂(S);S ⊂ {1, . . . , n}} of the Moebius function μ restricted to {0, 1, 2, . . . , 2 − 1} ≃ {0, 1} and prove that it is not captured by levels {μ̂(S)| |S| < n 2 3 −ε}. An application to correlation with monotone Bolean functions is given. 0. Introduction This paper may be seen as a companion of [B1] on the behavior of the Fourier-Walsh coefficients of the Moe...

This book aims to introduce the reader to the geometry of surfaces and submanifolds in the conformal n-sphere. Various models for Möbius geometry are presented: the classical projective model, the quaternionic approach, and an approach that uses the Clifford algebra of the space of homogeneous coordinates of the classical model — the use of 2-by-2 matrices in this context is elaborated. For eac...