Abstract: We consider an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process with values in Rn driven by a Lévy process (Zt) taking values in R d with d possibly smaller than n. The Lévy noise can have a degenerate or even vanishing Gaussian component. Under a controllability rank condition and a mild assumption on the Lévy measure of (Zt), we prove that the law of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process at any time t > 0 has a...

Methods Demographic data of FMF patients, followed in the national FMF center at Sheba medical center (n=8352) and Hadassah Medical Center (n=1083) were obtained from FMF patient hospital registries. The prevalence of cancer in the general population, and in the study registries was attained from the cancer registry of Israel and analyzed according to age, origin, and cancer type. The Standardi...

Methods Six well-defined mutation-negative CAPS patients were included. In addition two CAPS patients that were identified before as mosaics, by a subcloning and Sanger sequencing method, were included for validation purposes. In short, barcoded whole genome fragment libraries were generated for each patient, enriched for the coding regions of 300 inflammation related genes using a custom Agile...

Results Heterozygote carriers associated with abortive and mild FMF features is 18,72%, and 1.29% of patients with clinical features of FMF are without mutations. In some FMF patients “mild” MEFV mutations are associated with inflammatory attacks (P369S: 0.49%; E148Q: 5.09%; A744S: 0.74%). Genotypes E148Q/A744S and E148Q/P369S are found rarely. We have revealed the complex FMF cases with follow...

We prove that for sub-extremal axisymmetric and stationary black holes with arbitrary surrounding matter the inequality 8π|J | < A holds, where J is the angular momentum and A the horizon area of the black hole. PACS numbers: 04.70.Bw, 04.40.-b, 04.20.Cv preprint number: AEI-2008-034