A Gelafand model for wreath products Zr ≀ Sn is constructed. The proof relies on a combinatorial interpretation of the characters of the model, extending a classical result of Frobenius and Schur.

Penicilliosis is a tropical disease occurring mostly in Southeast Asia. The incidence of Penicillium marneffei infection in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) patients is increasing due to the infection of the HIV in the population in recent years. In this report, the bone marrow smears of 331 AIDS patients have been examined for the evidence of P. marneffei infection, and 35 (10.6%) of ...

Fleischmann, Pons, and Hawkins (FPH)1, 2 recently announced that significant fusion heating was occurring in their cold fusion experiments. As compelling evidence of fusion processes, they reported the detection of 2.2 MeV y rays that result from neutron-capture-on-hydrogen. We have carefully analyzed the published y-ray spectra of FPH. We have also performed detailed terrestrial y background m...

Each of two parties P I and P 2 holds an n -bit input, x and y, respectively. They wish to privately compute the value off (x 'Y). That is, PI should not learn any additiorlal infonnation about y (in the infonnationtheoretic sense) other than what follows from its input x and the function value, f (x 'Y), and similarly, P 2 ~hou1d not learn any additional infonnation about x . In this paper we ...

PURPOSE Mutation-specific antibodies have recently been developed for identification of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations by immunohistochemistry (IHC). This study was designed to investigate whether the type of specimen (biopsy vs. resection) would make a difference in determining mutation status by IHC, and to evaluate whether biopsies are suitable for detection of mutant EGFR...

A generating set for the wreath product Zr ≀ Sn which leads to a nicely behaved weak order is presented. It is shown that the resulting poset has properties analogous to those of the weak order on the symmetric group: it is a self-dual lattice, ranked by the Foata–Han flag inversion number; any two maximal chains are connected via Tits-type pseudo-Coxeter moves; and its intervals have the desir...

We report a case of tumor regression of multiple bone metastases from breast carcinoma after administration of strontium-89 chloride. This case suggests that strontium-89 chloride can not only relieve bone metastases pain not responsive to analgesics, but may also have a tumoricidal effect on bone metastases.

BACKGROUND Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) of the thyroid is the most common endocrine malignancy. High prevalence of an activating point mutation of BRAF gene, BRAF(V600E), has been reported in PTC. We assessed the efficiency of peptide nucleic acid clamp real-time polymerase chain reaction (PNAcqPCR) for the detection of BRAF(V600E) mutation in PTC in comparison with direct sequencing (DS)....

Azasilazirconacycle Cp2Zr{κ(2)-N(SiHMe2)SiHMeCH2} (1) and formaldehyde react through an uncatalyzed addition reaction (hydrosilylation) to form an exocyclic methoxysilyl-substituted zirconacycle. Although 1 contains 2-center-2-electron SiH groups, this transformation parallels the reactions of non-classical [Cp2ZrN(SiHMe2)2](+) ([2](+)) with carbonyls. Reactions of 1 with a series of nucleophil...

APC cleavage site. The first one is a new factor V mutation associated with APC resistance (factor V Cambridge, G1091 = C mutation, Arg306 = Thr substitution). This mutation was found in a family with a strong history of thrombosis. Our group has independently described another novel mutation (A1090 = G) that results in Arg306 = Gly substitution but it is, however, not associated with APC resis...