Objective(s):HTLV-1 is the first human retrovirus that has been recognized and is associated with HAM/TSP and ATLL. Studies have shown that less than five percent of HTLV-1 infected carriers develop HAM/TSP or ATLL and about ninety-five percent remain asymptomatic. Therefore, the proviral load with Tax may affect cellular genes such as cytokines and oncogenes, as well as involve in pathogenicit...

We prove that the Seidel morphism of (M × M , ω ⊕ ω) is naturally related to the Seidel morphisms of (M,ω) and (M , ω), when these manifolds are monotone. We deduce a condition for loops of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of the product to be homotopically non trivial. This result was inspired by and extends results obtained by Pedroza [P]. All the symplectic manifolds we consider in this note are ...

  The underlying mechanisms leading to the development of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) in HTLV-I infected individuals are not fully understood. Host genetic factors appear to be involved as risk factors for developing HAM/TSP. We investigated the possible contribution of interleukin-10 (IL-10) as a risk factor to HA...

Let (M,ω) be a closed symplectic manifold and Ham(M,ω) the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of (M,ω). Then the Seidel homomorphism is a map from the fundamental group of Ham(M,ω) to the quantum homology ring QH∗(M ; Λ). Using this homomorphism we give a sufficient condition for when a nontrivial loop ψ in Ham(M,ω) determines a nontrivial loop ψ × idN in Ham(M ×N, ω ⊕ η), where (N, η) is a c...

Human T-cell leukaemia/lymphoma virus type I (HTLV-I) is a retrovirus that has been identified as the causative agent of HTLV-I-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) and other illnesses. HTLV-I infects primarily CD4(+) T cells and the transmission occurs through direct cell-to-cell contact. HAM/TSP patients harbor higher proviral loads in peripheral blood lymphocytes than...

The objective of this study was to investigate survival kinetics of Campylobacter jejuni on various processed meat products (dry-cured ham, round ham with/without sodium nitrite, garlic seasoned ham with/without sodium nitrite, and sausage without sodium nitrite). Additionally, a semi-quantitative risk assessment of C. jejuni on various processed meat products was conducted using FDA-iRISK 1.0....

OBJECTIVE To investigate the role of demographic variables in the relationship between the presence of HAM/TSP and current major depression. METHODS It is a cross-sectional study of 108 HTLV-1 infected patients (47 with TSP/HAM) resident of Salvador, Brazil. The Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview, Brazilian Version 5 was used to evaluate the presence of depression. Prevalence ratio...

T-wave alternans (TWA) in surface electrocardiograph (ECG) signals has been recognized as a marker of cardiac electrical instability and is hypothesized to be associated with increased risk for ventricular arrhythmias among patients. A novel time-domain TWA hybrid analysis method (HAM) utilizing the correlation method and least squares regression technique is described in this paper. Simulated ...

Human T lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I)-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) is one outcome of infection with HTLV-I. A population association study of 229 patients with HAM/TSP and 202 healthy carriers of HTLV-I in southern Japan showed that this outcome of HTLV-I infection and the HTLV-I provirus load are under polygenic control. Of 58 polymorphic sites studied in 3...

Testing content-based anti-spam systems requires a plentiful source of both spam and ham. We examine the viability of Usenet postings as a ham source. While Usenet postings have been used before for this purpose, we refine the idea and show empirically that it is the text of Usenet replies that provides the best cut of ham.