conclusions our results suggest that human exposure to mcpyv occurs throughout life. the mcpyv antibody levels remained high among older adults in our population, consistent with reports from other populations. patients and methods in this cross-sectional study, we collected 440 serum samples from healthy individuals 2 to 78 years of age who visited the pasteur institute’s clinic in tehran, ira...

Every relativistic particle has 4-speed equal to c, since gμν dx dτ dx dτ = c. With the choice of k = +1 in the FRW metric, the cosmological scale factor a(t) has the natural interpretation of the radius of the sphere S a = {x ∈ R 4 : (x, x) = a}. Thus, a particle at rest in the cosmological frame has 4-speed equal to da dt . This leads us to infer that ȧ = c, which respresents a simple kinemat...

String theory compactifications may generate many light axion-like particles (ALPs) with weak couplings to electromagnetism. In general, a large number of ALPs exist, linear combination having potentially observable coupling The basis in which only one ALP couples electromagnetism is general misaligned the mass basis. This leads mixing between `electromagnetic' and `hidden' that do not interact...

BACKGROUND Remnant lipoproteins (RLP-C) are considered important in atherogenesis. Hence, this study was designed to assess RLP-C levels and the effect of statin therapy in patients with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH). Elevated RLP-C levels have been associated with the presence and progression of atherosclerotic disease, and their presence in FH patients has been proposed but never establi...

Papillomavirus-like particle (VLP)-based subunit vaccines have undergone rapid development over the past 8 years. Three types are being investigated. The most basic type is composed of only the L1 major capsid protein and is designed to prevent genital human papillomavirus (HPV) infection by inducing virus-neutralizing antibodies. On the basis of positive results in animal models, clinical tria...

Under which conditions does a jet appear as a particle–like signal from the hidden realm of quarks and gluons? Motivated by this question jet clustering conditions are formulated, in order to characterize jet clustering algorithms, which can be used for a determination of particle–like jets. Jets are understood as particle–like, if they behave like free particles. The simplest solution to the j...

A random packing of hard particles represents a fundamental model for granular matter. Despite its importance, analytical modeling of random packings remains difficult due to the existence of strong correlations which preclude the development of a simple theory. Here, we take inspiration from liquid theories for the n-particle angular correlation function to develop a formalism of random packin...

We explore adhesive loose packings of small dry spherical particles of micrometer size using 3D discrete-element simulations with adhesive contact mechanics and statistical ensemble theory. A dimensionless adhesion parameter (Ad) successfully combines the effects of particle velocities, sizes and the work of adhesion, identifying a universal regime of adhesive packings for Ad > 1. The structura...