CONTEXT Ellis-van Creveld (EVC) syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive disease characterized by disproportionate short stature, narrow thorax, postaxial polydactyly, nail and tooth abnormalities and congenital heart disease. CASE REPORT The patient was a 22-year-old Caucasian man, the third child of consanguineous parents. He received the diagnosis of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (DM) ...

A remarkable correlation between the centroid frequencies of quasi periodic oscillations, QPOs, (or peaked noise components) from low mass X-ray binaries, has been recently discovered by Psaltis, Belloni & van der Klis (1999). This correlation extends over nearly 3 decades in frequency and encompasses both neutron star and black hole candidate systems. We discuss this result in the light of the...

Suicide and aging: special issue of Aging & Mental Health Natalie Sachs-Ericsson, Kimberly Van Orden & Steven Zarit To cite this article: Natalie Sachs-Ericsson, Kimberly Van Orden & Steven Zarit (2016) Suicide and aging: special issue of Aging & Mental Health, Aging & Mental Health, 20:2, 110-112, DOI: 10.1080/13607863.2015.1099037 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13607863.20...

ABSTRACT. The non-hierarchical correlation structure of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick (SK) model with multidimensional (e.g. Heisenberg) spins is studied at the level of the logarithmic asymptotic of the corresponding sum of the correlated exponentials – the thermodynamic pressure. For this purpose an abstract quenched large deviations principle (LDP) of Gärtner-Ellis type is obtained under an as...

In the nervous system, cilia dysfunction perturbs the circulation of the cerebrospinal fluid, thus affecting neurogenesis and brain homeostasis. A role for planar cell polarity (PCP) signaling in the orientation of cilia (rotational polarity) and ciliogenesis is established. However, whether and how PCP regulates cilia positioning in the apical domain (translational polarity) in radial progenit...

In this paper we prove four cases of the vanishing conjecture of differential operators with constant coefficients and also a conjecture on the Laurent polynomials with no holomorphic parts, which were proposed in [Zh3] by the third named author. We also give two examples to show that the generalizations of both the vanishing conjecture and the Duistermaat-van der Kallen theorem [DK] to Laurent...

This paper proposes a dynamic equilibrium model to study the implications of the complexity of financial securities for investor behavior, asset prices, and welfare. The key assumption is that, unlike fund managers, non-professional investors cannot directly observe complex securities’ payoffs. In equilibrium, fund managers overinvest in complex securities as these potentially allow them to inf...

Due to the absence of the long-range van der Waals (vdW) interaction, conventional density functional theory (DFT) often fails in the description of molecular complexes and solids. In recent years, considerable progress has been made in the development of the vdW correction. However, the vdW correction based on the leading-order coefficient C6 alone can only achieve limited accuracy, while accu...

Van der Waals (vdW) forces are the dominant interactions between neutral particles on nanometer-tomicrometer length scales. This makes their effects ubiquitous in physics, chemistry, and biology: they are, for instance, responsible for the action of detergents, the selfassembly of viruses, and even the ability of geckos to climb flat surfaces. Their existence was first proposed by Johannes Dide...