BACKGROUND The proposed association between Chlamydia pneumoniae (Cpn) infection and wheezing needs further clarification. METHODS Serum samples obtained from 1581 children aged 4 years in a population based cohort were tested for antibodies to Cpn and IgE antibodies to common allergens. Data on environmental factors and disease were collected prospectively from birth. RESULTS The occurrenc...

Regulatory changes in the use of some second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides in parts of North America may result in expanded use of first-generation anticoagulant rodenticides (FGARs). Recent toxicological studies with captive raptors have demonstrated that these species are considerably more sensitive to the FGAR diphacinone than traditional avian wildlife test species (mallard, bobwhit...

In this paper, we first demonstrate how a coloured Petri nets (CPN) model can be used to capture requirements for a considered example system, an elevator controller. Then, we show how this requirements-level CPN model is transformed into a design-level object-oriented CPN model, which is structurally and conceptually closer to class diagrams and object-oriented programming languages. The CPN m...

OBJECTIVE The relationship between Chlamydia pneumoniae (Cpn) infection and arterial measures of preclinical atherosclerosis has remained controversial. Because atherogenesis begins in early life, we examined whether carotid and aortic intima-media thickness (IMT) and brachial artery endothelial function are associated with Cpn seropositivity in children. METHODS AND RESULTS Cpn-specific IgG ...

Semi-supervised classification uses a large amount of unlabeled data to help a little amount of labeled data for designing classifiers, which has good potential and performance when the labeled data are difficult to obtain. This paper mainly discusses semi-supervised classification based on CPN (Counterpropagation Network). CPN and its revised models have merits such as simple structure, fast t...

Little is known about the molecular development and heterogeneity of callosal projection neurons (CPN), cortical commissural neurons that connect homotopic regions of the two cerebral hemispheres via the corpus callosum and that are critical for bilateral integration of cortical information. Here we report on the identification of a series of genes that individually and in combination define CP...

In this paper, we provide tools to study the dynamics of point vortex on CPn and flag manifold F1,2(C3). These are only Kähler twistor spaces arising from four-manifolds. We give an explicit expression for Green’s function CPn, which enables us determine Hamiltonian H equations motions problem CPn. Moreover, momentum map μ:F1,2(C3)→su*(3) manifold.

CPN/Tools is a major redesign of the popular Design/CPN tool from the University of Aarhus CPN group. The new interface is based on advanced, post-WIMP interaction techniques, including bi-manual interaction, toolglasses and marking menus and a new metaphor for managing the workspace. It challenges traditional ideas about user interfaces, getting rid of pull-down menus, scrollbars, and even sel...

Colored Petri Nets (CPN) are a powerful, recognized and intuitive modelling tool. They allow a precise representation of distributed, embedded and/or real time systems. These models can be then used among others for the dependability assessment. This paper develops a new method of CPN analysis called the Backward reachability. It provides information about different ways of reaching a particula...