purpose: to present a case of herpes zoster ophthalmicus (hzo) with consequent posterior ischemic optic neuropathy (pion). case report: a 58-year-old woman with a history of hzo in her right eye which was under treatment presented with loss of vision to no light perception. on examination, positive relative afferent pupillary defect was detected; however the optic disc was normal on ophthalmosc...

L’inégalité de concentration de Azuma-Hoeffding fait partie de ces beaux outils mathématiques à la fois simples et utiles. Elle mérite d’être connue par tous ceux qui s’intéressent aux probabilités. Dans cet exposé, on en donne une version due à McDiarmid, ainsi qu’une application aux mesures spectrales empiriques de matrices aléatoires, puis au problème du voyageur de commerce en optimisation ...

Herpes are a group of similar viruses that responsible for number infecting diseases, the most important which herpes simplex, zoster and pseudopox. Resistance to traditional antiviral medications is becoming increasingly common, making treatment such infections even more difficult. For example, usage nucleoside analogues like acyclovir target DNA-polymerase virus on regular long-term basis pro...

herpes simplex virus (hsv) causes a wide range of pathologies in the human central nervous system (cns) such as stroke. it was proposed that there is an association between hsv infection and stroke with different results reported by the researchers using different methods. this study aimed to investigate the frequency of hsv among stroke patient and control groups. we detected hsv in 28 stroke ...

conclusions: prevalence of hsv1/2 in mucocutaneous biopsies from pemphigus patients is 2.5% and possibly hsv1/2 has no role in the pathogenesis of pemphigus lesions. but resistant cases to treatment might be suspected to hsv. results: ten patients (25%) had a history of orolabial herpes infection. the results of all samples were negative for hsv1 except one sample which showed the positive resu...

I argue that mereological nihilism fails because it cannot answer (what I describe as) the special arrangement question: when is it true that the xs (the mereological simples) are arranged F-wise? I suggest that the answers given in the literature fail and that the obvious responses that could be made look to undermine the motivations for adopting nihilism in the first place.

Suppose that a material object is gunky: all of its parts are located in space, and each of its parts has a proper part. Does it follow from this hypothesis that the space in which that object resides must itself be gunky? I argue that it does not. There is room for gunky objects in a space that decomposes without remainder into mereological simples.