We report a challenging case of a 16-year-old male who presented with thrombocytopenia and eluded a definitive diagnosis for over 2 years. He was initially diagnosed with a viral illness, although he later developed adenopathy and splenomegaly. An evaluation by an oncologist was unrevealing. He worked on a farm with livestock exposure and was later diagnosed with an atypical, zoonotic infection...

Hidden-variable (HV) theories allege that a quantum state describes an ensemble of systems distinguished by the values of hidden variables. No-go theorems assert that HV theories cannot match the predictions of quantum theory. The present work started with repairing aws in the literature on no-go theorems asserting that HV theories cannot predict the expectation values of measurements. That lit...

T-codes are variable-length codes (VLC) generated by an iterative construction algorithm known as the T-augmentation [5], [6]. All T-codes possess strong self-synchronizing properties by virtual of Taugmentation, which spreads synchronization information throughout the code construction. In particular, self-synchronism is attained as a natural consequence of the decoding process following a loc...

This Paper describes the generalised structure of Force-Sensor-less Power assist control (FSPAC) which is an essential technology to design a feedback control system in a human friendly way. Paper clarifies regarding generalised structure of Force-Sensor-less power assist control using two force observer. The Force, which is used to assist the control system is estimated by using encoders inste...

This paper extends two directional distance function models, the Multi-directional Efficiency Analysis (MEA) Model and the Range Directional Model (RDM), in order to account for any type of technical inefficiency, i.e. both directional and non-directional inefficiencies. We first focus on the variable returns to scale (VRS) case, because both VRS-MEA and RDM are translation invariant models, wh...

In parametric models a sufficient condition for local identification is that the vector of moment conditions is differentiable at the true parameter with full rank derivative matrix. We show that additional conditions are often needed in nonlinear, nonparametric models to avoid nonlinearities overwhelming linear effects. We give restrictions on a neighborhood of the true value that are sufficie...