The Fifth International Conference on Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome, Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome, and Hantaviruses was held June 13-16, 2001, in Annecy, a scenic resort in the French Alps. The conference, with 160 participants, was co-organized and generously hosted by the Mérieux Foundation. Apart from Eurasia and the Americas, evidence for infections with hantaviruses now has been r...

So far, we have been talking about multi-armed bandits where the rewards are stochastic, generated independently and identically from a fixed unknown distribution for each arm. Today, we’ll look at a different setup: adversarial rewards. Instead of there being a distribution for each arm, we assume there is a hidden sequence for each arm i, ri,1, ..., ri,T . We observe ri,t if we pull arm i at ...

Background: In vitro maturation is a good method to decrease cancer risk of superovulation by gonadotropin hormones. A paracrine effect of oocyte secretions on oocyte developmental competence is under investigation. Apart from oocyte maturation, ovulation in vivo requires a precise control of extracellular matrix modification. Cumulus cells secrete hyaluronan to form a muco-elastic extracellula...

WMN/Nrs inbred rats have been widely used in radiation biology for years. However, their reproductive profile has never been examined. We examined various reproductive characteristics of WMN/Nrs inbred rats such as superovulatory response, oocytes spontaneous activation (OSA), and embryo development in vitro and in vivo. Superovulation was induced in 3- to 9-week-old females by injection of 150...