OBJECTIVE To assess the overall effects by a meta-analysis. DATA SOURCES Electronic searches on PubMed and Ovid Medline from their start to October 2009 were carried out. Objective Cohort studies and secondary analysis of randomised controlled trials reporting the relative risk (RR) of recurrent cardiovascular events or death associated with C-reactive protein (CRP) obtained within 72 h from ...

Recall that for a triangulated category T , a Bousfield localization is an exact functor L : T → T which is coaugmented (there is a natural transformation Id → L; sometimes L is referred to as a pointed endofunctor) and idempotent (there is a natural isomorphism Lη = ηL : L → LL). The kernel ker(L) is the collection of objects X such that LX = 0. If T is closed under coproducts, it’s a localizi...

To any triangulated category with tensor product (K,⊗), we associate a topological space Spc(K,⊗), by means of thick subcategories of K, à la Hopkins-Neeman-Thomason. Moreover, to each open subset U of this space Spc(K,⊗), we associate a triangulated category K(U), producing what could be thought of as a presheaf of triangulated categories. Applying this to the derived category (K,⊗) := (D(X),⊗...

In the setting of enriched category theory, we describe dual adjunctions of the form L R : Spa −→ Alg between the dual of the category Spa of “spaces” and the category Alg of “algebras” that arise from a schizophrenic object , which is both an “algebra” and a “space”. We call such adjunctions logical connections. We prove that the exact nature of is that of a module that allows to lift optimall...

The object of this paper is the notion of r-spin structure: a line bundle whose rth power is isomorphic to the canonical bundle. Over the moduli functor Mg of smooth genus-g curves, r-spin structures form a finite torsor under the group of r-torsion line bundles. Over the moduli functor Mg of stable curves, r-spin structures form an étale stack, but the finiteness and the torsor structure are l...

We de ne a localization L of a category E to be quintessential if the left adjoint to the inclusion functor is also right adjoint to it and persistent if L is closed under subobjects in E We show that quintessential localizations of an arbitrary Cauchy complete category correspond to idempotent natural endomorphisms of its i dentity functor and that they are necessarily persistent Our investiga...

This is the second of three papers which develop various fundamental aspects of the theory of ditopological texture spaces in a categorical setting and present important links with the theory of L-topological spaces. In the 4rst paper in this series, subtitled Basic Concepts, the authors presented the notions of direlation and difunction between textures and introduced the category dfTex, the c...

Given f : X → R ∪ {+∞} a convex and lower semi-continuous function defined on a reflexive Banach space X, and L, a closed linear manifold of X over which f takes at least a real value, the aim of this note is to prove the following Baire category result: in the Euclidean setting, the set of affine functions dominated by f on L for which there is no dominated extension to X is always of first Ba...

A generalisation of Scott’s information systems [14] is presented that captures exactly all L-domains. The global consistency predicate in Scott’s definition is relativised in such a way that there is a consistency predicate for each atomic proposition (token) saying which finite sets of such statements express information that is consistent with the given statement. It is shown that the states...