Fragmentation of High-Spin Particle-Hole States in 26-Mg

This work was supported by the National Science Foundation Grants NSF PHY 78-22774 A03, NSF PHY 81-14339, and by Indiana Universit

Fragmentation of High-spin Particle-hole States in 26-Mg

This research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation Grant NSF PHy 87-1440

Fragmentation of High-Spin Particle-Hole States in 26-Mg

This work was supported by the National Science Foundation Grant NSF PHY 81-14339 and by Indiana Universit

Neutron Decay from Giant Resonances and the Isobaric Analog State in 120-Sb Populated in 120-Sn(3-He,t)120-Sb(n)119-Sb Charge Exchange

This research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation Grant NSF PHY-931478

3s Proton Holes in the Ground State of 208-Pb

This research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation Grant NSF PHY 87-1440

Autoantibodies against type I IFNs in patients with life-threatening COVID-19

Interindividual clinical variability in the course of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection is vast. We report that at least 101 of 987 patients with life-threatening coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia had neutralizing immunoglobulin G (IgG) autoantibodies (auto-Abs) against interferon-w (IFN-w) (13 patients), against the 13 types of IFN-a (36), or against both (52) at the onset of critical disease; a few also had auto-Abs against the other three type I IFNs. The auto-Abs neutralize the ability of the corresponding type I IFNs to block SARS-CoV-2 infection in vitro. These auto-Abs were not found in 663 individuals with asymptomatic or mild SARS-CoV-2 infection and were present in only 4 of 1227 healthy individuals. Patients with auto-Abs were aged 25 to 87 years and 95 of the 101 were men. A B cell autoimmune phenocopy of inborn errors of type I IFN immunity accounts for life-threatening COVID-19 pneumonia in at least 2.6% of women and 12.5% of men

Noninverted images in inferior mirages

Inferior mirages over sun-exposed roads often appear in isolated strips at their near sides and the reflected scenery exhibits multiple images. This effect is explained as due to slight undulations of the road's surface. At the same time, some of these images, although they are reflections, are not inverted. Photographic material illustrates this phenomenon and a ray tracing study is presented that confirms these conclusions. (C) 2011 Optical Society of Americ