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Leprosy is a chronic infection caused by Mycobacterium leprae that affects the periph-eral nerves, skin, and potentially other organs [1–5]. Although the worldwide prevalence of leprosy has decreased in the era of multi-drug therapy (MDT), the global detection of new cases of leprosy remains a concern, with more than 250,000 new cases of leprosy reported in 2007 [3]. The precise mechanism of transmission of leprosy has not been conclusively defined; however, it is likely that this occurs through respiratory secre-tions by untreated borderline lepromatous and polar lepromatous cases [1,5]. Target

at densities exceeding 10 14 cm 23 . The striking signature of Bose condensation was the sudden appearance of a bimodal velocity distribution below the critical temperature of ϳ 2 mK. The distribution consisted of an isotropic thermal distribution and an elliptical core attributed to the expansion of a dense

The sudden appearance of a new electron radiation belt at approximately

We study a plane circular model of a frictional fault using numerical methods. The model is dynamic since we specify the effective stress at the fault. In one model we assume that the fault appears instantaneously in the medium; in another, that the rupture nucleates at the center and that rupture

reduce the incidence of crises in the first place, or at least make the sudden stop problem less severe. In this regard, we consider the relative merits of capital controls and dollarization. We conclude that, while the evidence suggests that capital controls appear to influence the composition of flows

The sudden appearance and radiation of both skeletal and soft-bodied organisms in the Cambrian and the lack of fossils

Childhood psychic trauma appears to be a crucial etiological factor in the development of a number ofserious disorders both in childhood and in adulthood. Like childhood rheumatic f ever, psychic trauma sets a number of different problems into motion, any of which may lead to a definable mental

Vision-based background subtraction algorithms model the intensity variation across time to classify a pixel as foreground. Unfortunately, such algorithms are sensitive to appearance changes of the background such as sudden changes of illumination or when videos are projected in the background

-driven eye movement reflexively elicited by the appearance of the new object. Neuroanatomical structures responsible for parallel programming of saccades are discussed. It is well-known that the visual system is sensitive to events that exhibit sudden change (Breitmeyer & Ganz, 1976). When a person