Intro: Primary Sjogren’s syndrome is a chronic systemic autoimmune disease. Although ocular and oral dryness are the hallmarks of this syndrome, renal involvement when present most commonly has the histological appearance of tubointerstitial nephritis and less often glomerular involvement. We report, a unique case of renal manifestations of primary Sjogren’s syndrome with a proven histological ...

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Identifying the correct length of life for long-lived individuals is highly important for the social and natural sciences, as well as for policymaking. The purposes of this paper are to propose a standardized age verification procedure and to report on the age verification case of Jiroemon Kimura (J.K.), who is assumed to be the longest lived man in the world. We propose two verification proces...

Author Contributions:Drs Hubiche and Valério had full access to all the data in the study and take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. Study concept and design: Hubiche, Valério, del Giudice. Acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data: All authors. Drafting of the manuscript: Hubiche, Valério, del Giudice. Critical revision of the manuscript...

The Kimura 3-parameter model is one of the most fundamental phylogenetic models in algebraic statistics. We prove that all varieties associated to this are projectively normal, confirming a conjecture Michałek.

Yukio Morita*, Hayato Kogure, Mitsuru Sandoh, Gihei Kawashima, Yoshitake Sato, Sadao Nanba, Yoshihiro Shoda, Tomoyuki Suzuki, Masataka Shiono, Masae Shiobara, Masahiko Kato, Kunihisa Kozawa, Masahiro Noda, Nobuhiko Okabe and Hirokazu Kimura Gunma Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Sciences; Department of Internal Medicine, General Ota Hospital, Society of Health Insurance ...