Introduction FMF is considered an autosomal recessive autoinflammatory syndrome caused by single gene (MEFV) mutations. Recently, it has been known that also heterozygous mutation carriers can suffer from a mild or incomplete form of FMF, named FMF-like disease. Among Armenians, who have relatively high carrier rate of MEFV mutations, single mutation has been detected in about 1/5 of symptomati...

Abstract Introduction The literature on vulvodynia treatment is heterogeneous in terms of intervention type, study quality, and outcome measures. A systematic review (SR) treatments was recently published focusing randomized controlled trials (RCTs) non-RCTs for provoked vestibulodynia (PVD, a subtype). authors the SR concluded that most studies had very low certainty evidence, which limited ab...

Brittle and Ductile Deformational Structures in Tectonic Zones: The Research Trends in India N MANDAL1*, A CHATTOPADHAYAY2, H B SRIVASTAVA3, T K BISWAL4 and S BOSE5 1Department of Geological Sciences, Jadavpur University, Kolkata 700 032, India 2Department of Geology, University of Delhi, Delhi 110 007, India 3Department of Geology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221 005, India 4Department ...

Con el objetivo de construir y validar un cuestionario que mide las normas sociales alimentarias (NSA) en escolares, se realizó estudio instrumental transversal. Mediante muestreo aleatorio, seleccionaron 494 niños escuelas primarias. Se les aplicó validado por jueces para medir NSA. En análisis exploratorio encontraron dos factores explican 27.85% del constructo: reproducir (α=.774, r2=.893, p...

We consider Salim Rashid’s asymptotic version of David Schmeidler’s theorem on the purification of Nash equilibria. We show that, in contrast to what is stated, players’ payoff functions have to be selected from an equicontinuous family in order for Rashid’s theorem to ∗I wish to thank Mário Páscoa and Myrna Wooders for very helpful comments. All remaining errors are, of course, mine. †Address:...

We consider the arithmetics of Collatz cycles in Q(2)]. In particular , we prove optimal estimates for the length of a cycle in terms of its minimum. As an application, we derive an improved version of Eliahou's criterion , and we show that the length of (integer) Collatz cycles which do not contain 1, is at least 102 225 496 provided the Collatz conjecture is veriied for all initial values x 0...