Publications by authors named "J Hem"

Background: Autoimmune diseases (AIDs) are frequently hallmarked by the presence of autoreactive B cell responses which are involved in disease pathogenesis. However, the dynamics of such responses and their relation to clinical disease activity in humans is poorly understood. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a prototypic chronic AID, is hallmarked by B cell responses directed against citrullinated proteins.

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HLA-DP permissive mismatches can be assigned a direction according to their immunopeptidome divergence across core and noncore subsets. Noncore permissive graft-versus-host mismatches show significantly reduced risks of relapse without increased nonrelapse mortality compared with allele-matched pairs.

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Cancer is driven by somatic mutations that provide a fitness advantage. While targeted therapies often focus on the mutated gene or its direct downstream effectors, imbalances brought on by cell-state alterations may also confer unique vulnerabilities. In myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN), somatic mutations in the calreticulin (CALR) gene are disease-initiating through aberrant binding of mutant CALR to the thrombopoietin receptor MPL and ligand-independent activation of JAK-STAT signaling.

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We report experimental evidence that a polymer stretched at constant strain rate λ[over ̇] presents complex memory effects after λ[over ̇] is set to zero at a specific strain λ_{w} for a duration t_{w}, ranging from 100s to 2.2×10^{5}s. When the strain rate is resumed, both the stress and the dielectric constant relax to the unperturbed state nonmonotonically.

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Integration of Spin Torque Nano-Oscillators STNO's in conventional microwave circuits means that the devices have to meet certain specifications. One of the most important criteria is the phase noise, being the key parameter to evaluate the performance and define possible applications. Phase locking several oscillators together has been suggested as a possible means to decrease phase noise and consequently, the linewidth.

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