Severe leptospirosis in a Dutch traveller returning from the Dominican Republic, October 2011

In October 2011, a case of leptospirosis was identified in a Dutch traveller returning from the Dominican Republic to the Netherlands. The 51-year-old man had aspired muddy water in the Chavón river on 29 September. Twenty days later he presented with fever, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, arthralgia, headache, conjunctival suffusion and icterus. Leptospira serovar Icterohaemorrhagiae or Australis infection was confirmed ten days later by laboratory testing

Rotating Einstein-Yang-Mills Black Holes

We construct rotating hairy black holes in SU(2) Einstein-Yang-Mills theory. These stationary axially symmetric black holes are asymptotically flat. They possess non-trivial non-Abelian gauge fields outside their regular event horizon, and they carry non-Abelian electric charge. In the limit of vanishing angular momentum, they emerge from the neutral static spherically symmetric Einstein-Yang-Mills black holes, labelled by the node number of the gauge field function. With increasing angular momentum and mass, the non-Abelian electric charge of the solutions increases, but remains finite. The asymptotic expansion for these black hole solutions includes non-integer powers of the radial variable.Comment: 63 pages, 10 figure

Implikasi Hukum Atas Tindak Pidana Pemalsuan terhadap keabsahan Pengikatan Jual Beli (PJB) Tanah Kas Desa” (Studi Putusan Mahkamah Agung RI Nomor 446K/Pdt/2011)

Hal yang substansi dalam penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji Akibat Hukum terhadap Pengikatan Jual Beli Tanah Yang Mengandung Tindak Pidana Pemalsuan dan perlindungan hukum terhadap pemenuhan hak dan kewajiban para pihak yang dirugikan sebagai akibat perjanjian pengikatan jual beli tanah yang mengandung tindak pidana pemalsuan. Jenis penelitian ini merupakan penelitian yuridis normatif yang menggunakan pendekatan perundang undangan, Pendekatan kasus dan pendekatan konseptual. kemudian dibantu dengan dengan bahan-bahan hukum yang akan diuraikan, dideskripsikan. Dianalisis preskriftif analitik. Hasil penelitian ini dapat ditemukan yaitu Implikasi hukum terhadap pengikatan jual beli tanah yang mengandung tindak pidana Pemalsuan. Pengikatan jual beli dengan nomor akta 474 yang dibuat berhadapan dengan seorang Notaris yaitu secara hukum melanggar pasal 1365 KUHPerdata dengan perbuatan melawan hukum dengan adanya bukti merugikan pihak pembeli karna mengandung unsur pemalsuan, dan juga pengikatan jual beli tersebut melanggar pasal 1321, yaitu dalam proses jual beli terhadap Tanah Kas Desa (TKD) tersebut mengandung unsur penipuan, selanjutnya yaitu tidak terpenuhinya unsur objektif, karna objek yang diperjual belikan terjadi pemalsuan data, sehingga berdasarkan Pasal 1320, Pengikatan Jual beli dengan Nomor Akta 474 batal demi hukum dan pihak yang terlibat dalam pemalsuan tersebut karena kaitannya dengan akta otentik maka dikenakan hukuman penjara paling lama tujuh tahun sebagaimana Pasal 266 KUHPidana. Perlindungan hukum terhadap pemenuhan hak dan kewajiban para pihak yang dirugikan sebagai akibat perjanjian pengikatan jual beli tanah kas desa yang mengandung tindak pidana pemalsuan, maka bentuk perlindungan hukum yang diberikan kepada para pihak yang dirugikan yaitu perlindungan hukum refresif. Yaitu sebagaimana dalam pasal 1367 KUHPerdat

Thinking about growth : a cognitive mapping approach to understanding small business development

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Plant Growth Optimization by Vegetable Production System in HI-SEAS Analog Habitat

The Vegetable Production System (Veggie) is a scientific payload designed to support plant growth for food production under microgravity conditions. The configuration of Veggie consists of an LED lighting system with modular rooting pillows designed to contain substrate media and time-release fertilizer. The pillows were designed to be watered passively using capillary principles but have typically been watered manually by the astronauts in low-Earth orbit (LEO). The design of Veggie allows cabin air to be drawn through the plant enclosure for thermal and humidity control and for supplying CO2 to the plants. Since its delivery to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2014, Veggie has undergone several experimental trials by various crews. Ground unit testing of Veggie was conducted during an 8-month Mars analog study in a semi-contained environment of a simulated habitat located at approximately 8,200 feet (2,500 m) elevation on the Mauna Loa volcano on the Island of Hawaii. The Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) offered conditions (habitat, mission, communications, etc.) intended to simulate a planetary exploration mission. This paper provides data and analyses to show the prospect for optimized use of the current Veggie design for human habitats. Lessons learned during the study may provide opportunities for updating the system design and operational parameters for current Veggie experiments being conducted onboard the ISS and for payloads on future deep space missions

Dose-Ranging Effect of Adjunctive Oral Cannabidiol vs Placebo on Convulsive Seizure Frequency in Dravet Syndrome A Randomized Clinical Trial

Question Is adjunctive cannabidiol at doses of 10 and 20 mg/kg/d superior to placebo in reducing convulsive seizure frequency in patients with Dravet syndrome? Findings This double-blind clinical trial randomized 199 children with Dravet syndrome to cannabidiol (10 or 20 mg/kg/d) or matched placebo for 14 weeks. Convulsive seizure frequency compared with baseline was reduced by 48.7% in the 10-mg/kg/d cannabidiol group and 45.7% in the 20-mg/kg/d cannabidiol group vs 26.9% in the placebo group. Meaning Both doses of adjunctive cannabidiol were similarly efficacious in reducing convulsive seizures associated with Dravet syndrome

The Carriage of Multiresistant Bacteria after Travel (COMBAT) prospective cohort study: Methodology and design

Background: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the major threats to public health around the world. Besides the intense use and misuse of antimicrobial agents as the major force behind the increase in antimicrobial resistance, the e

Investigation of the ferromagnetic transition in the correlated 4d perovskites SrRu1−x_{1-x}Rhx_xO3_3

The solid-solution SrRu$_{1-x}$Rh$_x$O$_3$ ($0\le x \le1$) is a variable-electron-configuration system forming in the nearly-cubic-perovskite basis, ranging from the ferromagnetic 4$d^4$ to the enhanced paramagnetic 4$d^5$. Polycrystalline single-phase samples were obtained over the whole composition range by a high-pressure-heating technique, followed by measurements of magnetic susceptibility, magnetization, specific heat, thermopower, and electrical resistivity. The ferromagnetic order in long range is gradually suppressed by the Rh substitution and vanishes at $x \sim 0.6$. The electronic term of specific-heat shows unusual behavior near the critical Rh concentration; the feature does not match even qualitatively with what was reported for the related perovskites (Sr,Ca)RuO$_3$. Furthermore, another anomaly in the specific heat was observed at $x \sim 0.9$.Comment: Accepted for publication in PR

Relationship between foot pronation and rotation of the tibia and femur during walking

ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that the magnitude and timing of peak foot pronation would be predictive of the magnitude and timing of peak rotation of tibia and femur. Thirty subjects who demonstrated a wide range of pronation participated. Threedimensional kinematics of the foot, tibia, and femur segments were recorded during self-selected free walking trials using a six-camera VICON motion analysis system. Regression analysis demonstrated that the magnitude and timing of peak pronation was not predictive of the magnitude and timing of tibial and femoral rotation. The lack of a relationship between peak foot pronation and the rotation of the tibia and femur is contrary to the clinical hypothesis that increased pronation results in greater lower extremity rotation. It would seem, therefore, that the relationship between foot pronation and rotation of the lower extremity segments should be assessed on a patient-by-patient basis