Aims Recent studies have shown that C-reactive protein is not just an indicator of cardiovascular disease (CVD) incidence and mortality. Thus, early detection of a continous increase in CRP concentrations may be useful in predicting subsequent development of CVD or metabolic syndrome. The objective of this study was to analyze high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) in apparently healthy y...

Methods The study was performed in 25 JIA patients who donated paired serum samples prior and one year after continous etanercept therapy. Basic clinical data (six core set variables defined in ACR PEDI outcome score) were recorded along with alkalyne DnaseI serum levels using the method where acid soluble nucleotides are determined spectrophotometrically at 260 nm. Treatment schedule of etaner...

Our goal here is to describe elementary tools allowing to translate collective behavior of large neural networks in a continous, with respect to time and space, framework. Our starting point will be the Mac-Culloch and Pitts formal neuron, which operates in the following way: if (xi) a set of neurons connected through a synaptic matrix J(xi, xj), at every time step t, the states V t i of the ne...

Using the field-theoretical methods we studied the evolution from BCS description of a non-Fermi superconductor to that of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) in one loop approximation. We showed that the repulsive interaction between composite bosons is determined by the exponent α of the Anderson propagator in a two dimensional model. For α 6= 0 the crossover is also continous and for α = 0 we o...

This project aims at developing a biometric authentication system exploiting new features extracted by analysing the dynamic nature of various modalities, including motion analysis during ordinary tasks performed in front of a computer, analysis of speech, continous face and facial movement analysis, and even patterns for grasping objects. We test the potential and contribution of each of these...