Ross River virus, a mosquitoborne alphavirus, causes epidemic polyarthritis in Australia and the Pacific region. We analyzed serum cytokine, chemokine, and growth factor levels in travelers returning to Germany from Australia. Serum samples showed elevated concentrations in the acute phase of the illness and, more pronounced, in the long-lasting convalescent phase.

Ross River virus (RRV) is the most common mosquitoborne disease notified within Australia and is a significant public health issue for NSW. There have been more than 7500 notifications of RRV in NSW over the past 10 years. Peak seasons occurred in 1996–97 (1547 notified cases) and 2005–06 (1268 notified cases), with an average of 683 notifications for the 11 seasons before this.1 The November 2...

Ross River virus is a common mosquito-borne arbovirus responsible for outbreaks of polyarthritic disease throughout Australia. To better understand climatic factors preceding outbreaks, we compared seasonal and monthly rainfall and temperature trends in outbreak and nonoutbreak years at four epidemic-prone locations. Our analyses showed that rainfall in outbreak years tended to be above average...

§1. Conjectures Let V be a variety over C and let B = ∑ biBi be an effective Q-Weil divisor on V such that bi ≤ 1 for any i. Such a pair (V,B) will be called a log variety. It is said to be log terminal if it has only weak log terminal singularities in the sense of [KMM]. In this case, the Q-bundle KV + B is called the log canonical bundle of (V,B) and will be denoted by K(V,B). A Q-bundle L on...

This paper studies two functions arising separately in the analysis of algorithms. The first function is the solution to the Multidimensional Divide-And-Conquer (MDC) Recurrence that arises when solving problems involving points in d-dimensional space. The second function concerns weighted digital sums. Let n = (bibi−1 · · · b1b0)2 and SM (n) = ∑i t=0 t(t + 1)(t + 2) · · · (t + M − 1)bt2 , and ...

This paper aims to investigate the hysteric tendencies, inconsistent speeches and silences of woman in Jhumpa Lahiri’s two short stories “The Treatment Bibi Haldar” Real Durwan.” The addresses this objective through application subaltern perspective: cannot speak. More specifically, single, poor helpless women’s position their inability speak need are analyzed light studies. These expose issue ...

The title of my paper comes from an essay by Václav Havel. In his essay, Havel addressed most evocatively the question of the unique power of words for thinking and to influence, for good or for harm, as well as to inform and to educate. As analysts our medium is the word. I suggest that it is of inestimable importance that we are able to listen deeply to our patients' words and to be aware of ...

In this note we describe the notion of a rectifiable scan and consider some applications [DH1], [DH2] to Plateau-type minimization problems. “Scans” were first introduced in the work [HR1] of Tristan Rivière and the second author to adequately describe certain bubbling phenomena. There, the behavior of certain W 1,3 weakly convergent sequences of smooth maps from 4 dimensional domains into S le...

Conservation attention on charismatic large vertebrates such as dolphins is often supported by the suggestion that these species represent surrogates for wider biodiversity, or act as indicators of ecosystem health. However, their capacity to act as indicators of patterns or trends in regional biodiversity has rarely been tested. An extensive new dataset of >300 last-sighting records for the Ya...