background: leptospirosis, a spirochetal zoonosis, is considered an occupational disease of persons engaged in agriculture, sewage works, forestry, and butchery. objective: to determine the environmental sources and the knowledge, attitude and practices for leptospirosis among butchers and slaughterhouse workers, as well as the seroprevalence of leptospirosis among cattle and pigs presented for...

Let A be a modular abelian variety of GL2-type over a totally real field F of class number one. Under some mild assumptions, we show that the Mordell-Weil rank of A grows polynomially over Hilbert class fields of CM extensions of F .

The starting point of this method is Falting’s article in which he proves the Mordell-Weil theorem. He remarked and Serre turned it into a working method, the fact that the equivalence of two λ-adic representations is something that can be basically determined on some finite extension of the base field (even though the representations might not factor through a finite quotient). Let Oλ be the r...

of the Dissertation On some computational and analytic aspects of Chern-Weil forms

This paper assumes no background on elliptic curves and culminates with a proof of the Mordell-Weil theorem. The Riemann-Roch and Dirichlet unit theorem are recalled but used without proof, but everything else is self-contained. After some elementary properties of elliptic curves are given, the group structure is explored in detail.

Arguments against scientific misconduct one finds in the literature generally fail to support current policies on research fraud: they may not prove wrong what is typically considered research misconduct and they tend to make wrong things that are not usually seen as scientific fraud, in particular honest errors. I argue that society cannot set a rule enjoining scientists to be honest, so any s...