Human adenoviruses from multiple species bind to coagulation factor X (FX), yet the importance of this interaction in adenovirus dissemination is unknown. Upon contact with blood, vectors based on adenovirus serotype 5 (Ad5) binds to FX via the hexon protein with nanomolar affinity, leading to selective uptake of the complex into the liver and spleen. The Ad5:FX complex putatively targets hepar...

in searching a market-neutral arbitrage strategy in forex market, we took a portfolio of three major currency pairs, eur-usd, usd-jpy, and eur-jpy. there are eight approaches, different cases of short and long positions; for example buying 1st and selling two others, etc. historical daily fx rates were gathered since january 1990 until february 2011. monthly covariances between daily growth rat...

Dear Editor, Patient-specific induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, generated from somatic cells of disease-affected individuals, hold a tremendous potential for studying disease mechanisms and for drug screening approaches using cell types previously not available (Yamanaka, 2008). Fragile-X (FX) syndrome belongs to the autism spectrum disorders, and is the most common cause of inherited menta...

I. DIFFERENTIAL ENTROPY AND THE GAUSSIAN CHANNEL A. Differential Entropy Let X be a random variable with a continuous alphabet. • FX(x) = Pr(X ≤ x) Cumulative Distribution Function {CDF}. F (x) is a short notation for FX(x). • fX(x) = dFX(x) dx Probability Density Function {PDF} (in this course we will assume that the derivative exists). f(x) is a short notation for fX(x). Definition 1 ( Differ...

We introduce a tractable multi-currency model with stochastic volatility and correlated stochastic interest rates that takes into account the smile in the FX market and the evolution of yield curves. The pricing of vanilla options on FX rates can be efficiently performed through the FFT methodology thanks to the affine property of the model. Our framework is also able to describe many non trivi...