Among the multiple factors concurring to Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis, greater attention should be devoted to the role played by infectious agents. Growing epidemiological and experimental evidence suggests that recurrent herpes simplex virus type-1 (HSV-1) infection is a risk factor for AD although the underlying molecular and functional mechanisms have not been fully elucidated yet. ...

The existing Chiral Perturbation Theory (ChPT) calculations at order p6 are reviewed. The principles of ChPT and how they are used are introduced. The main part is a review of the twoand three-flavour full two-loop calculations and their comparison with experiment. We restrict the discussion to the mesonic purely strong and semileptonic sector. The review concludes by mentioning the existing re...

In this presentation we survey the advances that we have recently accomplished for the effective analysis of solids and structures, specifically for wave propagations and transient solutions, the analysis of shells, improved stress calculations, the use of interpolation covers, and the solution of the full Maxwell’s equations. The structures may be subjected to complex fluid flows and electroma...

This paper is concerned with the existence of monotone positive solutions for an elastic beam equation with nonlinear boundary conditions. By applying monotone iteration method, we not only obtain the existence of monotone positive solutions but also establish iterative schemes for approximating the solutions. It is worth mentioning that these iterative schemes start offwith zero function or qu...

©2009 Canadian Paediatric Society. All rights reserved During the annual examination of her two-year-old daughter, a mother mentioned that her family was planning a trip to the Dominican Republic during the upcoming spring break. The parents would be travelling with their three children (two, four and seven years of age). The primary reason for mentioning this plan was to obtain a prescription ...

This paper is concerned with the existence of monotone positive solution of boundary value problem for an elastic beam equation. By applying iterative techniques, we not only obtain the existence of monotone positive solution but also establish iterative scheme for approximating the solution. It is worth mentioning that the iterative scheme starts off with zero function, which is very useful an...

This paper reviews an important period in the use of cryptographic methods in Mexican History, the Mexican Revolution from 1910–1916. As is the case in any civil war, there were many groups in conflict. Among several leaders in theMexican Revolution, it is worth mentioning Porfirio Dı́az, Francisco I. Madero and Venustiano Carranza. They represent three main groups which used characteristic cryp...

After mentioning the sources from which the different manuscripts were obtained and giving a short description of each, Professor Albertotti summarises the main features of the operation as performed by Celsus, Benvenuto and Bartisch. The first named operated in the beginning of the Christian era, Bartisch at the end of the sixteenth century, and Benvenuto in the thirteenth or fourteenth, centu...

The present status of Chiral Perturbation Theory (ChPT) in the strong mesonic sector is discussed. A very short introduction to ChPT is followed by an overview of existing two-loop calculations and the determination of the Low-Energy-Constants (LECs). I discuss the case of η → πππ decays in somewhat more detail and finish by mentioning some recent work on partially quenched ChPT and on the reno...

Previous studies on reference tracking have established the importance of semantic factors in affecting the likelihood of re-mentioning a referent. This paper extends this line of research by investigating the interaction between syntax and semantics in this process. We conducted a Chinese sentencecompletion experiment and found that the degree of syntaxsemantics mismatch affects a referent’s l...