Herpes simplex virus type 1 and 2 can infect the human nervous system causing meningitis and encephalitis. HSV meningitis tends to be benign, but HSF encephalitis can have a high morbidity and mortality despite treatment. We present a case of HSV meningitis leading to hydrocephalus without evidence of encephalitis. The patient had persistent hydrocephalus requiring long term CSF diversion despi...

We compute the cardinality of the syntactic monoid of the language 0∗ repb(mN) made of base b expansions of the multiples of the integer m. We also give lower bounds for the syntactic complexity of any (ultimately) periodic set of integers written in base b. We apply our results to a well studied problem: decide whether or not a b-recognizable set of integers is ultimately periodic.

Abundant evidence suggests that affective stimuli facilitate responses that lead to a compatible change in distance between the affective stimulus and the self (positive→ approach, negative→ avoidance). A special situation arises, when a barrier blocks the direct way toward or away from an affective stimulus. Recent evidence suggests that in such cases affective stimuli facilitate responses tha...

BACKGROUND Buruli ulcer (BU) is a necrotizing disease of the skin, subcutaneous tissue and bone caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans. It has been suggested that the immune response developed during the recommended rifampicin/streptomycin (RS) antibiotherapy is protective, contributing to bacterial clearance. On the other hand, paradoxical reactions have been described during or after antibiotherapy...

This paper analyzes the behaviour and motivation of fund managers in foreign exchange markets reflected in questionnaire evidence. We find that fund managers and FX dealers differ significantly. Fund managers rely more on fundamentals, basically due to their longer forecasting horizons, and reject non-fundamental influences on exchange rates more than FX dealers. However, neither can fund manag...

in this paper, a robust pid control scheme is proposed for micro-electro-mechanical-systems(mems) optical switches. the proposed approach is designed in a way which solves twochallenging and important problems. the first one is successful reference tracking and the second ismitigating the system nonlinearities. the overall system composed of nonlinear mems dynamicsand the pid controller is prov...