Fooling the liver: Malaria incognito

Malaria in the liver.

The protozoan parasitaemia that characterizes malaria, results from infection with Plasmodium spp., which is inoculated by the female Anopheles mosquito usually between dusk and dawn.' Transmission occurs over much of the globe; one estimate is that 46% of the world's human population lives in this area, and a recent WHO guesstimate indicates that 300 million individuals (90% of them in tropica...

Fooling-sets and rank

ABSTRACT. An n×n matrix M is called a fooling-set matrix of size n if its diagonal entries are nonzero and Mk,lMl,k = 0 for every k 6= l. Dietzfelbinger, Hromkovič, and Schnitger (1996) showed that n ≤ (rkM)2 , regardless of over which field the rank is computed, and asked whether the exponent on rkM can be improved. We settle this question. In characteristic zero, we construct an infinite fami...

Neoatherosclerosis: fooling mother nature.

Tinea incognito

Introduction: Tinea incognito is a localized skin infection caused by a fungus. Due to the use of corticosteroids, the shape and severity of the lesion are different from the usual skin manifestations by dermatophytes. Background and Aim: A 39-year-old female with history of erythematous, scaly skin lesions on her hands, buttock, inguinal and both legs for 7 months referred to clinician, who p...

Fooling Around with the Sudakov Veto Algorithm

The Sudakov veto algorithm for generating emission and no-emission probabilities in parton showers is revisited and some reweighting techniques are suggested to improve statistics by oversampling in specific cases.