Ann Rheum Dis April 2010 Vol 69 No 4 629 1Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital, Aker and Ullevål, Oslo, Norway 2Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway 3Department of Endocrinology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway 4Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway Correspondence to Professor Dan Atar, Department of Cardiology, Division of Medici...

OBJECTIVE To examine the predictive role of HLA genetic markers in scleroderma renal crisis (SRC), beyond the known clinical correlates, in a large population of patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc). METHODS SSc patients from the Scleroderma Family Registry and DNA Repository, the Genetics versus Environment in Scleroderma Outcomes Study, and the rheumatology division registry at the Univer...

For a power constrained Gaussian channel we determine the energy per bit for a BPSK transmitter and the channel code rate to minimize the end-to-end average quantizer distortion for progressive image compression. This provides an additional degree of freedom with respect to previously proposed schemes, and therefore can achieve higher overall PSNRs for images. Supported in part by the National ...

Hans-Jacob Bangstada, Thomas Danneb, Larry Deebc, Przemyslawa Jarosz-Chobotd, Tatsuhiko Urakamie and Ragnar Hanasf aDepartment of Pediatrics, Oslo University Hospital, Ullevål, Norway bKinderkrankenhaus auf der Bult, Diabetes-Zentrum fur Kinder und Judendliche, Hannover, Germany cDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Tallahassee, FL, USA dDepartment of Pediatric E...

Originally Published in Attention , H. Pashler (Ed.), London, UK: University College London Press, 1998. Acknowledgements: I thank Sara Bennett, Greg Gancarz, Todd Horowitz, and Patricia O'Neill for comments on earlier drafts of this paper. I am also grateful to Anne Treisman for various discussions and to Hal Pashler and an anonymous reviewed for excellent editorial comments.Some parts of this...

Probabilistic kernels offer a way to combine generative models with discriminative classifiers. We establish connections between probabilistic kernels and feature space kernels through a geometric interpretation of the previously proposed probability product kernel. A family of probabilistic kernels, based on information divergence measures, is then introduced and its connections to various exi...

Convincing results on HLA Class II associations have been reported, however data on HLA class I association are limited and inconsistent from studies in Leprosy. We present here the HLA A, B, and C allele distribution by molecular high resolution PCR-SSOP technique in 32 leprosy patients compared with the 67 controls, from the same ethnic background. The significant results from the present stu...

BACKGROUND Type 1 diabetes (DM1) is caused by an autoimmune process that destroys beta cells of pancreas. Not all carriers of susceptible HLA genes and positive for autoantibodies develop the disease. Environmental factors play a role in triggering the autoimmune process. AIM To analyze an exceptional case of DM1 in a Mapuche family in the context of genetic, immunological and environmental f...