BACKGROUND In Wilson disease, copper is not sufficiently excreted into bile due to the absence or malfunction of the Wilson protein copper ATPase in the excretory pathway of hepatocytes. Copper is found in sweat. It is unknown if the Wilson protein plays a role in copper excretion into sweat. It is the aim of this study to investigate Wilson protein expression in sweat glands and analysing its ...

This note briefly reviews the Mirror Principle as developed in the series of papers [19][20][21][22][23]. We illustrate this theory with a few new examples. One of them gives an intriguing connection to a problem of counting holomorphic disks and annuli. This note has been submitted for the proceedings of the Workshop on Strings, Duality and Geometry the C.R.M. in Montreal of March 2000.

The existence of mirror fermions interacting strongly under a new gauge group and having masses near the electroweak scale has been recently proposed as a viable alternative to the standard-model Higgs mechanism. The main purpose of this work is to investigate which specific experimental signals are needed to clearly differentiate the mirror-fermion model from other new-physics models. In parti...

The literature contains a disconnect between accounts of how humans learn lexical semantic representations for words. Theories generally propose that lexical semantics are learned either through perceptual experience or through exposure to regularities in language. We propose here a model to integrate these two information sources. Specifically, the model uses the global structure of memory to ...

The Mental Rotations Test (Vandenberg & Kuse, 1978) consistently produces large gender differences favoring males (Voyer, Voyer, & Bryden, 1995). This test requires participants to select two of four answer choices that are rotations of a probe stimulus. The incorrect choices (i.e., foils) are either mirror reflections of the probe or structurally different. Two experiments investigated the hyp...

The mirror of a projective toric manifold XΣ is given by a LandauGinzburg model (Y,W). We introduce a class of Lagrangian submanifolds in (Y,W) and show that, under the SYZ mirror transformation, they can be transformed to torus-invariant hermitian metrics on holomorphic line bundles over XΣ. Through this geometric correspondence, we also identify the mirrors of Hermitian-Einstein metrics, whic...

Borcea-Voisin threefolds are Calabi-Yau manifolds. They are constructed by Borcea ([B]) and Voisin ([V]) in the construction of mirror manifolds. In [SYZ], Strominger, Yau and Zaslow propose a geometric construction of mirror manifolds using special Lagrangian tori (called SYZ-construction below). Using degenerate Calabi-Yau metrics Gross and Wilson show that SYZ-construction works for any Borc...

A new and inexpensive technique for detecting self interacting dark matter in the form of small grains in bulk matter is proposed. Depending on the interactions with ordinary matter, dark matter grains in bulk matter may be isolated by using a centrifuge and using ordinary matter as a filter. The case of mirror matter interacting with ordinary matter via photon-mirror photon kinetic mixing prov...

PURPOSE Menkes and Wilson diseases are associated with retinal degeneration. The Menkes and Wilson genes are homologous copper transporters, but differences in their expression pattern lead to different disease manifestations. To determine whether the Wilson and Menkes genes may act locally in the retina, this study was undertaken to assess retinal Wilson and Menkes expression and localization....