BACKGROUND Entecavir is a potent nucleoside analogue for treating chronic hepatitis B (CHB). Quantitative hepatitis B surface antigen (qHBsAg) levels are predictive of response to interferon-α in CHB treatment; however, the clinical utility of qHBsAg in nucleoside/nucleotide analogue-based CHB therapy is not fully characterized. This study assessed changes in qHBsAg in patients treated with ent...

This paper proves sufficient conditions under which a completely separable order on non-convex sets can be represented by an additively separable function. The two major requirements are that indifference curves are connected and that intersections of the domain of the order with parallel-to-the-axes hyperplanes are connected. Jourrzal of Economic Literature Classification Numbers: 020, 022. c ...

The HKαα allele is a rearrangement occurring in the α-globin gene cluster containing both the -α(3.7) and ααα(anti4.2) unequal crossover junctions. The anti-HKαα allele is the reciprocal product containing both the -α(4.2) and ααα(anti3.7) unequal crossover junctions, which had been predicted but had not been detected previously. The phenotypic feature and population frequency of these two unus...

B this cause diminish or disappear, inna minority ?f families or ndividuals have difficulty in adapting, ? ^ their tensions remain, or even grease. These form the hard core the discontented. Several doctors in new towns have ^?gested that there is a greater ncidence of neurosis in their Ipctices. Others have denied this, but Ereed that, compared with older k tablished areas, the patients might ...

A class of signaling games is studied in which a unique Universally Divine equilibrium outcome exists. We identify a monotonicity property under which a variation of Universal Divinity is generically equivalent to strategic stability. Further assumptions guarantee the existence of a unique Universally Divine outcome. Journal of Economic Literature Classification Numbers: 021, 022, 026. ‘r 1990 ...

We formulate separating equilibria with (many) signals as the set of zeroes of a suitable mapping and show continuity of this mapping for a suitable topolm We prove upper semi-continuity (USC) of the correspondence mapping the set of multidimensional signalling environments into their sets of separating equilibria. Journal of Economic Literature Classification Numbers: 022, 026.

Deterministically growing (wild-type) populations which seed stochastically developing mutant clones have found an expanding number of applications from microbial populations to cancer. The special case of exponential wild-type population growth, usually termed the Luria-Delbrück or Lea-Coulson model, is often assumed but seldom realistic. In this article, we generalise this model to different ...

A weaker than usual continuity property is defined for binary relations. Relations that have this property, along with certain transitivity properties, are shown to have maximal elements on compact sets. The results cover “interval orders,” the kind of relations that often characterize choice situations in which similar alternatives are indistinguishable. Journal of‘ Economic Literature Classif...