Pax-6: Where to be conserved is not conservative

“Not Everything That Is Faced Can Be Changed, but Nothing Can Be Changed Until It Is Faced”: A Response to Recent Commentaries

What Must (Not) Be Available Where?

Arranging the distribution of data, objects or components is a critical task that can ultimately affect the performance, integrity and reliability of distributed system. This paper suggests to write down what must (not) be available where in order to reveal conflicting distribution requirements and to detect problems early on. Distribution requirements are expressed via a new notion of constrai...

Coccidioidomycosis in a State Where It Is Not Known To Be Endemic — Missouri, 2004–2013

During 1998‒2012, coccidioidomycosis cases increased nationally nearly eightfold. To describe the epidemiology of coccidioidomycosis in Missouri, a state without endemic coccidioidomycosis, coccidioidomycosis surveillance data during 2004-2013 at the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services were retrospectively reviewed. The incidence of reported coccidioidomycosis increased from 0.05 ...

Histoplasmosis in a State Where It Is Not Known to Be Endemic — Montana, 2012–2013

Histoplasmosis is caused by infection with the dimorphic fungus, Histoplasma capsulatum, following inhalation of contaminated soil. Among symptomatic patients, the most common clinical presentation is acute pneumonia. Persons with compromised immune systems are at risk for disseminated histoplasmosis, a severe illness requiring antifungal therapy that is often characterized by fever, malaise, a...

Surviving on the Slope: Supersymmetric Vacuum in the Theories Where It Is Not Supposed to Be

In supersymmetric models with the runaway vacua or with the stable but non-supersymmetric ground state there exist stable field configurations (vacua) which restore one half of supersymmetry and are characterized by constant positive energy density. The formal foundation for such vacua is provided by the central extension of the N = 1 superalgebra with the infinite central charge.