The kidney disease (kd) mutation was transferred to a C57BL/6 (B6) background by selection for closely linked microsatellite markers. The resulting congenic strain, B6.kd, was mated with partners homozygous for targeted mutations of CD4, CD8, CD28, IL-2, recombinase-activating gene-1 (Rag-1), ICAM-1, or beta(2)-microglobulin. In most of the resulting double mutants, kidney disease occurred as r...

We investigate the characteristics of constant-amplitude input shapers for robust time-optimal maneuvers of exi-ble structures. Trends in the timing of the shaper impulses are shown as a function of the system damping constant and move distance. The insensitivity to modeling errors, time-optimality, amount of vibration caused during maneuvers, and high frequency excitation of these shapers are ...

background kawasaki disease (kd) is a vasculitis affecting multi-organ systems including liver and kidneys. kd is diagnosed by some clinical criteria including sterile pyuria, microscopic hematuria, proteinuria due to renal involvement, liver abnormalities manifesting as abnormal liver function tests, gallbladder hydrops, and hypoalbuminemia. objectives the aim of the study was to determine the...

The charts of 27 patients with Kawasaki disease (KD) admitted to Nemazee Hospital in Shiraz from January 1991 to October 1998 were reviewed to identify the results of mean peroxidase index (MPXI) values, a measure of neutrophil staining intensity, obtained by the Technicon HI analyzer (Technicon Instruments Corp., Tarrytown, NY) within the first 10 days of the illness 2 separate groups of ...

background kawasaki disease (kd) is an acute multisystem vascular syndrome of unknown etiology that is the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children of developed counties. objectives we aimed to evaluate the epidemiological characteristics and clinical manifestations of kd in children residing in the southwest of iran. patients and methods in this retrospective study, we reviewed the ...

Mercury is a toxin that causes neurological impairments in adults, particularly harmful for fetuses and children, deadly severe cases, making it worldwide health concern. Methylmercury (MeHg) the environmentally relevant form of mercury (Hg) because biomagnifies along food chain. mainly produced aquatic sediments via methylation inorganic Hg (Hg(II)) transformed back demethylation. Because tran...

We propose a general technique related to the polytopal Sperner lemma for proving old and new multilabeled versions of Sperner’s lemma. A notable application of this technique yields a cake-cutting theorem where the number of players and the number of pieces can be independently chosen. We also prove multilabeled versions of Fan’s lemma, a combinatorial analogue of the Borsuk-Ulam theorem, and ...

Thi spaperdi scussesstochasti cextensi onsofasi mpl eprocessal gebrai nacausal i ty-based setti ng. Atomi c acti ons are supposed to happen after a del ay that i s deter-mi ned bya stochasti c vari abl e wi th acertai n di stri buti on. Asi mpl e stochasti c type of event structures i s di scussed, restri cti ng the di stri buti on functi ons to be expo-nenti al. Acorrespondi ngoperati onalsema...

Let {Xi},i = l, • • • , be a sequence of independent and identically distributed random variables with density function f(x). We shall assume throughout that EXi=p>0. Let {Sn}, n = l, • • • , be the sequence of cumulative sums Sn= 23"-1 -^«'Let H(x) = 23»= i P(Sn ^x) and h(x)=H'(x). Since H(x) is nondecreasing, h(x) is defined for almost all x. Let A be any Borel set of positive real numbers an...

We wish to navigate across complicated three-dimensional structures. We describe a robot that can propel itself on a web of surfaces oriented around arbitrary directions in three-space. This robot is an inchworm-like robot with a simple, modular, and exi-ble design. We present control algorithms for the task-level skills that allow the robot to walk vertically, horizontally , and inverted, and ...