We study a variational model for a diblock-copolymer/homopolymer blend. The energy functional is a sharp-interface limit of a generalisation of the Ohta-Kawasaki energy. In one dimension, on the real line and on the torus, we prove existence of minimisers of this functional and we describe in complete detail the structure and energy of stationary points. Furthermore we characterise the conditio...

Osamu Iida, MD; Hiroyoshi Yokoi, MD; Yoshimitsu Soga, MD; Naoto Inoue, MD; Kenji Suzuki, MD; Yoshiaki Yokoi, MD, PhD; Daizo Kawasaki, MD, PhD; Kan Zen, MD, PhD; Kazushi Urasawa, MD, PhD; Yoshiaki Shintani, MD; Akira Miyamoto, MD; Keisuke Hirano, MD; Yusuke Miyashita, MD, PhD; Taketsugu Tsuchiya, MD, PhD; Norihiko Shinozaki, MD; Masato Nakamura, MD, PhD; Takaaki Isshiki,MD, PhD; Toshimitsu Hamas...

It has been 50 years since the legendary Japanese pediatrician, Dr Tomisaku Kawasaki, published his classic paper in 1967. Little was he to know at that time that this condition would not only be known after his name but would also become the commonest cause of acquired heart disease in children in most of the developed world. The etiology of this condition continues to remain an enigma, and th...

BACKGROUND Kawasaki disease (KD) is a systemic vasculitis with an acute and self-limited course. The incidence of KD differs widely among ethnic groups and is higher in the Asian population. In Italy, no recent data are available. Our purpose is to define the epidemiology of Kawasaki disease in the years 2008-2013 in children aged < 14 years in the Italian regions of Tuscany and Emilia Romagna ...

We performed a retrospective epidemiologic survey on Kawasaki disease (KD) from 1997 to 1999 in Korea. We sent a questionnaire to 111 training hospitals, and summarized the data from 50 hospitals that responded. Data from a total of 3,862 cases were collected, which showed no difference in annual incidence and a seasonal predilection for summer. The male-to-female ratio was 1.51:1, and the mean...

BACKGROUND The etiologic agent of Kawasaki disease (KD) is unknown, but may be dengue infection because of reported cases of concomitant KD and dengue. METHODS AND RESULTS Prospective study was conducted to ascertain the relationship of positive serology for dengue infection in pediatric patients presenting with KD. A total of 65 cases were diagnosed with KD during the period of 4 years and o...

The causal agent of Kawasaki disease (KD) remains unknown after more than 40 years of intensive research. The number of cases continues to rise in many parts of the world and KD is the most common cause of acquired heart disease in childhood in developed countries. Analyses of the three major KD epidemics in Japan, major non-epidemic interannual fluctuations of KD cases in Japan and San Diego, ...

Kawasaki disease was first described by Dr. Tomisaku Kawasaki in 1967. This disease is an acute, febrile illness primarily affecting infants and children younger than 4 years old. Although this disease is characterized by systemic vasculitis, the etiology is still unknown. To clarify the epidemiologic features of Kawasaki disease, nationwide surveys have been conducted since 1970. Approximately...

Kawasaki Disease (KD) is an acute febrile systemic vasculitis that causes acquired cardiac disease in children in developed countries. It was first described by Kawasaki in 1967 [1] and is now known to occur worldwide. Importantly, KD is markedly more prevalent in Asian countries, including Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Despite intensive research, several questions about KD remain unanswered, inclu...