BACKGROUND & AIMS The incidences of the inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) are increasing, indicating gene-environment interactions. Migrants from low-IBD-prevalence countries to a high-prevalence country may help identify the relative contribution of environmental risk factors compared with native Caucasians. METHODS This prospective case-cont...

The maximum entropy method (MEM) of image reconstructtion is discussed in the context of incomplete Fourier information (as in aperture synthesis). Several current viewpoints on the conceptual foundation of the method are analysed and found to be unsatisfactory. It is concluded that the MEM is a form of model-fitting, the model being a non-linear transform of a band-limited function. A whole fa...

BACKGROUND Inhaled allergen challenge is a standard method to study airway responses to inflammatory provocation and evaluate the therapeutic potential of novel anti-inflammatory compounds in asthma. MEM 1414 is a novel oral PDE4 inhibitor with high affinity and selectivity creating the potential for an improved side effect profile vs non-selective PDE inhibitors. We evaluated the tolerability ...

We study the sign problem in lattice field theory with a θ term, which reveals as flattening phenomenon of the free energy density f(θ). We report the result of the MEM analysis, where such mock data are used that ‘true’ flattening of f(θ) occurs . This is regarded as a simple model for studying whether the MEM could correctly detect non trivial phase structure in θ space. We discuss how the ME...

We present novel RF switches using micro-electromechanical (MEM) technology. These MEM switches are built on GaAs substrates using GaAs MESFET MMICcompatible processes. The fabricated shunt switches showed an insertion loss of less than 0.2dB and an isolation of greater than 20dB up to 40GHz. The switching speed is 47μS. The broadband MEM switches are promising building blocks for wideband circ...

We study the sign problem in lattice field theory with a θ term, which reveals as flattening phenomenon of the free energy density f(θ). We report the result of the MEM analysis, where such mock data are used that ‘true’ flattening of f(θ) occurs . This is regarded as a simple model for studying whether the MEM could correctly detect non trivial phase structure in θ space. We discuss how the ME...

Interconnect Component MEM T2 HDS API Transaction Accurate Architecture T2 T3 Comm OS HAL API HDS API SystemC TLM Interconnect Component (Bus/NoC) CPU-SS1 Abstract CPU1 Periph Interface Memory Abstract CPU2 Periph Interface Memory CPU-SS2 MEM-SS T2 HDS API Comm OS HAL API T3 HAL Virtual Prototype SystemC TLM CPU-SS1 CPU1 ISS Periph Interface Memory CPU2 ISS Periph Interface Memory CPU-SS2 Inter...

Time correlation functions for an exotic hybrid meson, J PC £ 1¤ ¦ ¥ , are analyzed using the maximum entropy method (MEM). The MEM analysis provides both ground and excited state energies. Both the location and strength of each spectral mass density peak are determined when a simulated annealing process is employed with the MEM analysis. We extract ground and excited states of about 1.4, 1.6, ...

The magnetic Eden model (MEM) [N. Vandewalle and M. Ausloos, Phys. Rev. E 50, R635 (1994)] with ferromagnetic interactions between nearest-neighbor spins is studied in (d+1)-dimensional rectangular geometries for d=1,2. In the MEM, magnetic clusters are grown by adding spins at the boundaries of the clusters. The orientation of the added spins depends on both the energetic interaction with alre...