Cholera is the prime example of blood-group-dependent diseases, with individuals of blood group O experiencing the most severe symptoms. The cholera toxin is the main suspect to cause this relationship. We report the high-resolution crystal structures (1.1-1.6 Å) of the native cholera toxin B-pentamer for both classical and El Tor biotypes, in complexes with relevant blood group determinants an...

objective: social determinant of health (sdh) are different from medical care and services. these factors themselves are affected by social policies, and they influence health more than medical care and services do. due to the importance of chronic non-communicable diseases especially diabetes in yazd, and assuming the effect of sdh, the present study was conducted in order to examine the relat...

background and purpose: the age of the onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) and its manifestation is now identified at childhood. in the present study, we aimed to epidemiologically assess ocd and its main determinants in school-age children. materials and methods: this cross-sectional study was performed on 600 consecutive schoolage children (7-12 years old) in primary schools at kerma...

The infinite matrix ‘Schwartz’ group G−∞ is a classifying group for odd K-theory and carries Chern classes in each odd dimension, generating the cohomology. These classes are closely related to the Fredholm determinant on G−∞. We show that while the higher (even, Schwartz) loop groups of G−∞, again classifying for odd K-theory, do not carry multiplicative determinants generating the first Chern...

In this note, we survey results concerning variations of the LückFuglede-Kadison determinant with respect to the base group. Further, we discuss recurrences of coefficients in the determinant for certain distinguished base groups. The note is based on a talk that the second author gave at the “Segundas Jornadas de Teoŕıa de Números”, Madrid, 2007. The object that we consider in this note is giv...