HLA-A, -B and -DR antigens have been studied in 34 Chinese patients with multiple sclerosis and 100 normal healthy controls. Unlike patients of other ethnic groups in whom multiple sclerosis is associated with HLA-DR2, there was no obvious association with any HLA antigen in the Chinese patients, although the overall distribution of antigens did not appear typical of the southern Chinese popula...

HLA types, especially HLA-DR3, are associated with the development of toxic reactions in patients with rheumatoid arthritis after treatment with gold or D-penicillamine. In this study, after treatment with sulphasalazine, leucopenia was observed in three patients, who all had a history of leucopenia after previous gold treatment. The HLA types of these patients did not include HLA-DR3; the two ...

New cyclic n-digit Gray codes are constructed over {0, 1, . . . , R − 1} for all R,n ≥ 2. These codes have the property that the distribution of the digit changes (transition counts) is close to uniform: For every n ≥ 2, the number of occurrences of each digit in the n-digit codes is within R-1 of the average Rn/n, and for the 2-digit codes every transition count is either bR2/2c or dR2/2e.

Previous studies have indicated that HLA-DR homozygous cell lines express two Ia alpha and Ia beta chains that combine to form at least two Ia molecules. This report demonstrates by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis the existence of a third structurally distinct human Ia beta chain on DR2 and DR5 cell lines. This suggests that at least five separate genes control the expression of Ia molecule...

Most traditional algorithms for compressive sensing image reconstruction suffer from the intensive computation. Recently, deep learning-based reconstruction algorithms have been reported, which dramatically reduce the time complexity than iterative reconstruction algorithms. In this paper, we propose a novel Deep Residual Reconstruction Network (DRNet) to reconstruct the image from its Compress...

We present new central stellar velocity dispersions for 484 Sy 1.9 and 2 from the second data release of Swift/BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey (BASS DR2). This constitutes largest study dispersion measurements in X-ray selected, obscured with 956 independent Ca H+K Mg b region (3880-5550A) triplet (8350-8730A) 642 spectra mainly VLT/Xshooter or Palomar/DoubleSpec. Our sample spans 40-360 km/s, cor...

We present a formalism within which the relationship (discovered by Drinfel’d in [Dr1, Dr2]) between associators (for quasi-triangular quasi-Hopf algebras) and (a variant of) the Grothendieck-Teichmuller group becomes simple and natural, leading to a simplification of Drinfel’d’s original work. In particular, we reprove that rational associators exist and can be constructed iteratively, though ...

We cross-correlate the sample of Type Ia supernovae from Riess et al. (2004) with the SDSS DR2 photometric galaxy catalogue. In contrast to recent work, we find no detectable correlation between supernova magnitude and galaxy overdensity on scales ranging between 1 − 10. Our results are in accord with theoretical expectations for gravitational lensing of supernovae by large-scale structure. Fut...