Pathogenesis of Secondary Anemia

In patients with tissue damage of a malignant, infectious, inflammatory, ischemic or surgical nature, the plasma elimination (PE) of folates, iron, albumin, and cholesterol appears to be increased. Not all substances have been studied in diagnostic groups

A Fresh Look At The Equal Credit Opportunity Act

The subsequent material will illustrate that despite the fact that women have been required to meet both a different and a higher standard for them to be deemed creditworthy, studies have shown that they (especially single women) are in fact better credit risks than men. Nevertheless, in an investigation of special problems concerning the availability of credit, the National Commission on Consumer Finance identified difficulties that women in particular faced in obtaining consumer, as well as mortgage, credit

Invariants of multidimensional time series based on their iterated-integral signature

We introduce a novel class of features for multidimensional time series, that are invariant with respect to transformations of the ambient space. The general linear group, the group of rotations and the group of permutations of the axes are considered. The starting point for their construction is Chen's iterated-integral signature.Comment: complete rewrite of Section 3.

The Lost Mysteries of New Orleans

A collection of German-language literary texts from the mid-1850s to the mid-1860s by Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein, translated by Steven W. RowanOrientation on the author, Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein, pp. 1-4. “New Orleans Whisker Stories,” a fictional narrative of an encounter with a Bluebeard, published but not completed in 1855, pp. 5-30. “The Devil in New Orleans,” published but not completed, 1861, pp. 31-53. An adaptation of a literary work from Spanish and French sources portraying an encounter with Satan in New Orleans at the start of the Civil War, giving a scathing account of the mood of the city of New Orleans in that period. “Bonseigneur in New Orleans,” published but not completed, 1865, pp. 54-178, an elaborate work divided into two parts, the first a narrative (pp. 54-111) on the siege and capture of New Orleans by Federal forces in 1862, linked with a longer narrative (pp. 112-178) on a fictional Creole New Orleans family, the Bonseigneurs, who supposedly played a major role in the establishment of slave plantations in Louisiana and throughout the Caribbean through 1861. It ends abruptly in Guadeloupe in the midst of a Black uprising which many Whites seem to support

A structure theorem for streamed information

We identify the free half shuffle algebra of Sch\"utzenberger (1958) with an algebra of real-valued functionals on paths, where the half shuffle emulates integration of a functional against another. We then provide two, to our knowledge, new identities in arity 3 involving its commutator (area), and show that these are sufficient to recover the Zinbiel and Tortkara identities of Dzhumadil'daev (2007). We use these identities to prove that any element of the free half shuffle algebra can be expressed as a polynomial over iterated areas. Moreover, we consider minimal sets of iterated integrals defined through the recursive application of the half shuffle on Hall trees. Leveraging the duality between this set of Hall integrals and classical Hall bases of the free Lie algebra, we prove using combinatorial arguments that any element of the free half shuffle algebra can be written uniquely as a polynomial over Hall integrals. We interpret this result as a structure theorem for streamed information, loosely analogous to the unique prime factorisation of integers, allowing to split any real valued function on streamed data into two parts: a first that extracts and packages the streamed information into recursively defined atomic objects (Hall integrals), and a second that evaluates a polynomial function in these objects without further reference to the original stream. The question of whether a similar result holds if Hall integrals are replaced by Hall areas is left as an open conjecture. Finally, we construct a canonical, but to our knowledge, new decomposition of the free half shuffle algebra as shuffle power series in the greatest letter of the original alphabet with coefficients in a sub-algebra freely generated by a new alphabet with an infinite number of letters. We use this construction to provide a second proof of our structure theorem