The decays χ_{c1}→J/ψμ^{+}μ^{-} and χ_{c2}→J/ψμ^{+}μ^{-} are observed and used to study the resonance parameters of the χ_{c1} and χ_{c2} mesons. The masses of these states are measured to be m(χ_{c1})=3510.71±0.04(stat)±0.09(syst)  MeV and m(χ_{c2})=3556.10±0.06(stat)±0.11(syst)  MeV, where the knowledge of the momentum scale for charged particles dominates the systematic uncertainty. The mome...

A Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) was evaluated for a balance/equilibrium disorder after suffering trauma due to a hard landing during fi tness training. Magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography demonstrated a chronic atlanto-occipital subluxation with craniodorsal displacement of the atlas (atlanto-occipital overlapping) causing dynamic brainstem and spinal cord compression and an o...

Modulation of human NK cell function by killer cell Ig-like receptors (KIR) and MHC class I is dominated by the bipartite interactions of inhibitory lineage III KIR with the C1 and C2 epitopes of HLA-C. In comparison, the ligand specificities and functional contributions of the activating lineage III KIR remain poorly understood. Using a robust, sensitive assay of KIR binding and a representati...

A probability distribution p is Markovian wrt an AMP CG G iff the following three properties hold for all C ∈ Cc(G) (Andersson et al., 2001, Theorem 2): ● C1: C⊥pNdG(C) ∖CcG(PaG(C))∣CcG(PaG(C)). ● C2: p(C ∣CcG(PaG(C))) is Markovian wrt GC . ● C3∗: For all D ⊆ C, D⊥pCcG(PaG(C)) ∖ PaG(D)∣PaG(D). Lemma 1. C1, C2 and C3∗ hold iff the following two properties hold: ● C1∗: For all D ⊆ C, D⊥pNdG(D) ∖ ...

Osteoid osteoma is a small tumor of bone which affect spine in 10% of cases. The tumor has tendency to neural arc and the lumbar spine is most common site of presentation. Lesions of odontoid process are very rare. We present a 20-year-old man who had cervical pain for 8 month. The pain respond to medical therapy. After investigation there was a lytic lesion at the odontoid process with charact...

OBJECTIVE To characterize the relationships among UMLS concepts that co-occur as MeSH descriptors in MEDLINE citations (1990-1999). DESIGN 18,485 UMLS concepts involved in 7,928,608 directed pairs of co-occurring concepts were studied. For each directed pair of concepts C1-C2: (i) the "family" of C1 was built, using the UMLS Metathesaurus, and we tested whether or not C2 belonged to C1's fami...

We report our experience with the endoscopic endonasal approaches (EEA) for different craniocervical junction (CCJ) disorders to analyse outcomes and demonstrate the importance and feasibility of anterior C1 arch preservation or its reconstruction. Between January 2009 and December 2013, 10 patients underwent an endoscopic endonasal approach for different CCJ pathologies at our Institution. In ...

OBJECTIVES To characterise cartilage intermediate layer protein (CILP)-induced arthropathy in mice. METHODS The first and second halves of the nucleotide triphosphate pyrophosphohydrolase (NTPPHase) non-homologous region of human CILP were prepared as recombinant proteins (C1 and C2, respectively), including three overlapping fragments of C2 (C2F1, C2F2, and C2F3). C57BL/6 mice were immunised...

We establish a small ball probability inequality for isotropic log-concave probability measures: there exist absolute constants c1, c2 > 0 such that if X is an isotropic log-concave random vector in R with ψ2 constant bounded by b and if A is a non-zero n × n matrix, then for every ε ∈ (0, c1) and y ∈ R, P (‖Ax− y‖2 6 ε‖A‖HS) 6 ε ` c2 b ‖A‖HS ‖A‖op ́2 , where c1, c2 > 0 are absolute constants.

Let S be a birationally ruled surface. We show that the moduli schemes MS(r, c1, c2) of semistable sheaves on S of rank r and Chern classes c1 and c2 are irreducible for all (r, c1, c2) provided the polarization of S used satisfies a simple numerical condition. This is accomplished by proving that the stacks of prioritary sheaves on S of fixed rank and Chern classes are smooth and irreducible. ...