The relation between defects of Abelian gauges and instantons is discussed for explicit examples in the Laplacian Abelian gauge. The defect coming from an instanton is pointlike and becomes a monopole loop with twist upon perturbation. The interplay between magnetic charge, twist and instanton number – encoded as a Hopf invariant – is investigated with the help of a new method, an auxiliary Abe...

Hypersensitivity reactions are the most frequent dose-limiting adverse reactions to Escherichia coli-derived asparaginase in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) patients. The aim of the present study was to identify associations between sequence-based Human Leukocyte Antigen Class II region alleles and asparaginase hypersensitivity in a Hungarian ALL population. Four-digit typing of HL...

Background: Identification of antigen-specific T cells has yielded valuable information on pathologic process and the disease state. Assays for quantification of inflammatory cytokines or lytic-granule molecules have been generally used to evaluate antigen specific T cell response, however their applicability have been hampered due to the limited source of autologous antigen-presenting target c...

Background. Aim of this paper is to evaluate the safety and the patency rate of the infrapopliteal bypass grafts performed with the great saphenous vein (GSV) with small (<2.5 mm) or large calibre (>5 mm). Patients and methods. Between January 2003 and May 2007, 73 infragenicular bypass with autologus saphenous vein were performed in patients affected by atherosclerotic femoropopliteal disease....

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The thermodynamics of 5D dilaton gravity duals to confining gauge theories is analyzed. We show that they exhibit a first order Hawking-Page type phase transition. In the explicit background of improved holographic QCD of [U. Gursoy and E. Kiritsis, J. High Energy Phys. 02 (2008) 03210.1088/1126-6708/2008/02/032] [U. Gursoy, E. Kiritsis, and F. Nitti, J. High Energy Phys. 02 (2008) 01910.1088/1...

Glucose metabolism via the pentose phosphate pathway was studied by measuring accelerated 02 uptake of human erythrocytes in the presence of methylene blue. Erythrocyte 02 uptake was independent of age in 67 normal patients. Erythrocyte 02 uptake was increased in pernicious anemia in relapse and in 5 of 6 jaundiced patients but was normal in pernicious anemia in remission and in 20 cases of mal...

The presence of HLA-B*15:02 allele greatly increases the risk of carbamazepine-induced severe cutaneous adverse drug reactions, namely Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN).1,2 It is unknown whether HLA-B*15:02 also confers increased risk of SJS/TEN induced by other anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs). HLA-B*15:02 in single cases of SJS/TEN is reported to be induced by phe...

Basic Chinese 2 [4] Tuesday, 02/06 to 04/17 10 Classes 5:30 to 7 p.m. Brown Hall [2] Room 4010 Chinese Ink Painting Session 2 [3] Wednesday, 02/07 to 04/18 10 Classes 5:30 to 7 p.m. Brown Hall [2] Room 4025 Intermediate Chinese Language 1 [4] Wednesday, 02/07 to 04/18 10 Classes 5:30 to 7 p.m. Brown Hall [2] Room 4010 Intermediate Chinese Language 2 [4] Wednesday, 02/07 to 04/18 10 Classes 5:30...

Basic Chinese 2 [4] Tuesday, 02/06 to 04/17 10 Classes 5:30 to 7 p.m. Brown Hall [2] Room 4010 Chinese Ink Painting Session 2 [3] Wednesday, 02/07 to 04/18 10 Classes 5:30 to 7 p.m. Brown Hall [2] Room 4025 Intermediate Chinese Language 1 [4] Wednesday, 02/07 to 04/18 10 Classes 5:30 to 7 p.m. Brown Hall [2] Room 4010 Intermediate Chinese Language 2 [4] Wednesday, 02/07 to 04/18 10 Classes 5:30...