Chediak-Higashi syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive disease that was first described in 1943 by Bequez-Cesar in 3 siblings that bore the primary clinical features. In 1952 Chediak (a Cuban hematologist) and in 1954 Higashi (a Japanese pediatrician) described a series of cases characterized by misdistribution of myeloperoxidase in the patients’ neutrophilic granules [1,2]. Mean age of onset i...

We study the structure of Yukawa couplings in intersecting D6-branes wrapping a fac-torizable 6-torus compact space T 6. Models with MSSM-like spectrum are analyzed and found to fail in predicting the quark mass spectrum because of the way in which the family structure for the left-handed, right-handed quarks and, eventually, the Higgses is 'factorized' among the different tori. In order to cir...

A 5-month-old Chinese male infant was referred to the University Hospital, Kuala Lumpur for persistent fever, generalised rash and abdominal distension. Clinically he was suspected to have haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis. Haematological findings including the presence of several abnormal giant granules in neutrophils and single large azurophilic granules in many lymphocytes and monocytes in...

School of Science and Engineering, Kinki University, Higashi-Osaka 577-8502, Japan Department of Mathematics, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan Department of Mathematics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502 Japan Hitachi Ltd., Asagaya-kita 2-13-2,...

Andreas Nuber,1,* Mitsuharu Higashiguchi,2 Frank Forster,1 Peter Blaha,3 Kenya Shimada,4 and Friedrich Reinert1,5 1Experimentelle Physik II, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany 2Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan 3Institute of Materials Chemistry, Vienna University of Technology, Getreidemarkt 9/165, A-1060 Vienna, Austria...

Dam Hieu Chi, Y. Iwasa, T. Takano, T. Watanuki, Y. Ohishi, and S. Yamanaka Faculty of Physics, Hanoi National University, 334 Nguyen Trai Str., Hanoi, Vietnam Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Kawaguchi, 332-0012, Japan Synchrotron Radiation Center, JAERI, Koto 1-1, Hyogo 679-5198, Japan JASRI-SPring-8, ...