Collapsing focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (cFSGS), also known as collapsing glomerulopathy (CG) is of considerable interest for a variety of reasons. Its incidence is on the rise, and in many parts of the world, it has emerged as one of the leading causes of end-stage renal disease (ESRD). There is currently no specific treatment and the response to standard immunotherapeutic agents is poor...

In recent years, a myriad of new statistical methods have been proposed for detecting associations of rare single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) with common diseases. These methods can be generally classified as 'collapsing' or 'haplotyping' based. The former is the predominant class, composed of most of the rare variant association methods proposed to date. However, recent works have suggested tha...

BACKGROUND Collapsing glomerulopathy may occur in an idiopathic (primary) form and in association with a wide spectrum of infectious and inflammatory conditions and medications. The association of collapsing glomerulopathy with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 infection is well established; less certain is the association with other viral infections. METHODS We searched PubMed for article...

Collapsing factors are proteins that induce growth cone collapse and paralysis when added in a soluble form to cultured embryonic neurons. Here we examine the responses of growth cones to localized collapsing signals. Temporal retinal ganglion cell growth cones exposed to a localized collapsing stimulus from nasal retinal ganglion cell axons frequently turn smoothly away from the axons without ...

This paper addresses the issue of collapsing dependent floatingpoint operations. The presentation focuses on studying the dataflow graph of benchmark involving a large number of floating-point instructions. In particular, it focuses on the relevance of new floating-point operators performing two dependent operations which are similar to “fused multiply and add”. Finally, this paper examines the...

In the standard scenario, the electroweak phase transition is a first order phase transition which completes by the nucleation of critical bubbles. Recently, there has been speculation that the standard picture of the electroweak phase transition is incorrect. Instead, it has been proposed that throughout the phase transition appreciable amounts of both broken and unbroken phases of SU(2) coexi...

2 Implementation and initial experiments 5 2.1 1-Dimension artificial function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.1.1 First Order Operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.1.2 Second Order Operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 2.1.3 Dependence on Initial Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

In this talk, we discuss the possibility that the vacuum is dynamically determined in the history of the universe. The point is that some of the bubbles with a certain vacuum shrink by the evolution of the universe via gravity and may become black holes. It is interesting that in many cases false vacua are favored in the context of cosmology. By using this argument, supersymmetry(SUSY), if it e...