hyper ige syndrome (hies) is a rare primary immunodeficiency disease. most of hies cases are sporadic. hies type ad is caused by mutation in signal transducer and activator of transcription-3 (stat-3). a number of mosaicism hies has been reported that is associated with intermediate phenotype. autosomal recessive hies (ar-hies) is due to mutation in dock-8 or cytokine sis 8 and tyk2 or tyrosine...

background: asthma is a multifactorial disease and its severity varies with the inflammatory grade. there are conflicting reports about the roles of trace elements in asthma. this study examined the effects of zinc (zn), copper (cu), and selenium (se) concentrations in sera of patients with allergic asthma attending ghaem hospital, mashhad, iran. methods: forty-nine patients, aged 10 to 50 year...

In this paper we study networks based on torus topologies enhanced with additional, arbitrary assigned links. We develop a method for analyzing the expected number of hops which can be applied to any torus topol-ogy with randomly assigned extra links when the simplest greedy routing is used. Using this method, we study the following topologies with extra links: one-dimensional unidirectional an...

A De Bruijn torus is a periodic d−dimensional k−ary array such that each n1 × · · · × nd k−ary array appears exactly once with the same period. We describe two new methods of constructing such arrays. The first is a type of product that constructs a k1k2−ary torus from a k1−ary torus and a k2−ary torus. The second uses a decomposition of a d-dimensional torus to produce a d + 1 dimensional toru...

hyper-igm syndromes are characterized by profound reduction of serum igg, iga, and ige levels with normal or increased concentrations of serum igm. cd40 ligand deficiency is x-linked form of the disease, which results in a lack of immunoglobulin class switching from igm to igg in b cells. in addition to the recurrent infections, a number of patients suffer from neutropenia. there are some evide...

In the context of the unified model of Seyfert galaxies, we use observations from the literature and a radiative transfer model to investigate the near–IR to mm emission produced by the presumed torus in the Circinus galaxy, from 2µm to 1.3mm. From the infrared SED modelling, we find that the total luminosity (L IR) in this wavelength range, consists of similar contributions from the torus and ...