Hemorrhagic fever viruses (HFVs) are a diverse set of over 80 viral species, found in 10 different genera comprising five different families: arena-, bunya-, flavi-, filo- and togaviridae. All these viruses are highly variable and evolve rapidly, making them elusive targets for the immune system and for vaccine and drug design. About 55,000 HFV sequences exist in the public domain today. A cent...

The introduction of a small amount of bounded rationality into a model sometimes has little effect, and sometimes has a dramatic impact on predicted behavior. We call a model robust to bounded rationality if small deviations from rationality result only in small changes in the equilibrium set. We also say that a model is structurally stable if the equilibrium set (given fully rational agents) v...

We study the spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain with alternating nearest neighbor interactions J1(11d) and J1(1 2d) and a uniform second neighbor interaction J25y(12d) by series expansions around the limit of decoupled dimers (d51). By extrapolating to d50 and tuning y, we study the critical point separating the powerlaw and spontaneously dimerized phases of the spin-1/2 antiferromagnet. We then focus o...

PURPOSE The aim of this validation study was to assess the positive predictive value (PPV) of the International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision (ICD-10) diagnosis of vitamin B12 (cobalamin [Cbl]) deficiency anemia in the Danish National Patient Register (DNPR). PATIENTS AND METHODS We identified all patients above 18 years of age recorded in the DNPR with a diagnosis of Cbl deficien...

Macroeconomic models are typically solved through the imposition of a top-down general equilibrium solution constraining agents’rational behavior. This is customarily obtained by recurring, explicitly or not, to the Walrasian auctioneer (WA) arti…ce. In this paper we aim at contributing to the small but burgeoning literature that deals with the consequences of removing it from the start by mean...

Two-component signal transduction systems are commonly composed of a sensor histidine kinase and a cognate response regulator, modulating gene expression in response to environmental changes through a phosphorylation-dependent process. CosR is an OmpR-type response regulator essential for the viability of Campylobacter jejuni, a major foodborne pathogenic species causing human gastroenteritis. ...

Flagellar motility in Campylobacter jejuni mediates optimal interactions with human or animal hosts. Sigma(54) and the FlgSR two-component system are necessary for the expression of many C. jejuni flagellar genes. The FlgR response regulator is homologous to the NtrC family of transcriptional activators. These regulators usually contain an N-terminal receiver domain, a central domain that inter...

In this paper, we consider an exchange economy à la Shitovitz (1973), with atoms and an atomless set. We associate with it a strategic market game of the kind first proposed by Lloyd S. Shapley and known as the Shapley window model. We analyze the relationship between the set of the Cournot-Nash equilibrium allocations of the strategic market game and the Walras equilibrium allocations of the e...