Poor dentition and/or dental infection due to insufficient oral care are presumed to be risk factors for infective endocarditis (IE). We present a case of endocarditis caused by Granulicatella adiacens and Sjögren's syndrome (SS) with oral complications diagnosed simultaneously. A 67-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with fever, general fatigue, arthralgia, and back pain. She was diag...

The simultaneous presentation of two endocrinological diseases is uncommon. A case is discussed in which Addison's disease and thyrotoxicosis were discovered in an individual following presentation as an emergency neurological problem.

This paper proposes a semiparametric approach by introducing a smooth scale function into the standard GARCH model so that conditional heteroskedasticity and scale change in a nancial time series can be modelled simultaneously. An estimation procedure combining kernel estimation of the scale function and maximum likelihood estimation of the GARCH parameters is proposed. Asymptotic properties of...

The possibility that several carcinogens may act concurrently in organs such as the lungs and skin has assumed greater importance as the nec ognized possible agents increase for these sites. A wide range of effects, from inhibition through no effects to summation or even synergism must be considered. The dosage, type of agents, portal of entry, duration of exposure, site and type of tissue, spe...

Motion in depth and/or zooming cause defocus blur. We show how the defocus blur in an image can be recovered simultaneously with affine motion. We introduce the theory, develop a solution method and demonstrate the validity of the theory and the solution by conducting experiments with real scenery.

We investigate the problem of constructing planar drawings with few bends for two related problems, the partially embedded graph problem—to extend a straight-line planar drawing of a subgraph to a planar drawing of the whole graph—and the simultaneous planarity problem—to find planar drawings of two graphs that coincide on shared vertices and edges. In both cases we show that if the required pl...