granulocytic ehrlichiosis in Europe: clinical and laboratory findings for four patients from Slovenia. Use of CRH/he Lyme disease mouse model for the recovery of a Spanish isolate of Borrelia garinii from erythema migrans lesions. To the Editor: Five species of tick-associated rickettsiae have been identified in China; of these, three are human pathogens and two are of unknown pathogenicity (1)...

Under weaker condition than that of Riedi & Mandelbrot, the Hausdorff (and Hausdorff-Besicovitch) dimension of infinite self-similar set K ⊂ R which is the invariant compact set of infinite contractive similarities {Sj(x) = ρjRjx + bj}j∈N (0 < ρj < 1, bj ∈ R , Rj orthogonal) satisfying open set condition is obtained. It is proved (under some additional hypotheses) that the β-mean quadratic vari...

We have carried out an independent quantitative evaluation of the galaxy component of the “COSMOS/UKST Southern Sky Object Catalogue” (SSC) and the “APM/UKST J Catalogue” (APM). Using CCD observations our results corroborate the accuracy of the photometry of both catalogs, which have an overall dispersion of about 0.2 mag in the range 17 ≤ bJ ≤ 21.5. The SSC presents externally calibrated galax...

In this paper we consider the strategic problem of pairing opponents from two teams at a chess meet. We propose using a bias-minimizing stable matching and establish two main results, that a strict dominance relationship between the two teams can be determined in polynomial time, and if such a relationship exists, then a biasminimizing stable matching can be found by the simplex method. We also...

Abstract. Atmospheric CO2 mole fractions are observed at Beijing (BJ), Xianghe (XH), and Xinglong (XL) in North China using Picarro G2301 cavity ring-down spectroscopy instruments. The measurement system is described comprehensively for the first time. geographical distances among these three sites within 200 km, but they have very different surrounding environments: BJ inside megacity; XH subu...

1 Department of Microbiology, BJ Government Medical College and Sassoon Hospital, Pune 411001, India 2Department of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Crosshouse, NHS Ayrshire & Arran, School of Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK 3Department of Microbiology, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune 411040, India 4 Johns Hopkins University India Center, BJ Medical College, Pun...

We present preliminary measurements of the bJ and K-band luminosity functions (LFs) of field galaxies obtained from optical and Kband imaging of a sample of galaxies selected from the Stromlo-APM Redshift Survey. The bJ LF is consistent with that previously published from photographic data. TheK-band LF has been estimated over a range of 12 magnitudes and is reasonably well fit by a Schechter f...

Observation probability • Probability to observe Yo(fk,tm) given tempo bi and RST mj 1) Compute the Yo(l,tm,bi) corresponding to the assumption bi 2) Select the mj which have a reference tempo Bj close to bi: (abs(log2(bi/Bj))<0.3785 3) Compute the one-minus cosine distance between Yo(l,tm,b) and mj=Yj(l) Template-Based Estimation of Tempo: Using Unsupervised or Supervised Learning to create be...