Many different illnesses can cause status epilepticus:
Very bad injuries can also cause status:
Illegal drugs, alcohol, and some medications can cause status:
People in status epilepticus are unable to end their seizures on their own. They are often unconscious and unable to react.
The most common way to end status is to inject special medicines that can stop seizures. If these medicines do not help, the patient must be treated in the intensive care unit at a hospital. Sometimes patients have to be put into a coma to stop very bad status epilepticus.
Active galactic nucleus
An active galactic nucleus (AGN) is a compact region at the centre of a galaxy. This central region radiates huge luminosity over the electromagnetic spectrum. The radiation from an AGN is thought to be caused by mass dragged in by the gravitational pull of a supermassive black hole at the centre of the host galaxy.
This electromagnetic radiation is observed in the radio, microwaves, infrared, optical, ultra-violet, X-ray and gamma ray wavebands.
A galaxy hosting an AGN is called an active galaxy. AGN are the most luminous and persistent sources of electromagnetic radiation in the universe. They can be used to discover distant objects. All theories about the cosmos have to account for AGNs. They are one of the basic facts about the universe.
So-called relativistic jets are extremely powerful jets of plasma which come from some AGNs, notably radio galaxies and quasars. Their lengths can reach several thousand or even hundreds of thousands of light years.
Mirande
Mirande () is a commune in the Gers department, of which it is a subprefecture, in the Occitanie region, southwestern France. It is the administrative center of the "arrondissement" of Mirande and of the canton of Mirande-Astarac.
Mirande was founded in 1281 near the village of "Saint-Jean de Lezian" by the abbot Berdoues and by Bernhard IV, Count of Astarac. The town was built as a bastide (a fortified town). Miranda became, in 1297, the capital of the "County of Astarac".
Mirande was surrounded by a wall with four city gates; the wall was destroyed during the 19th century.
Since 17 February 1800, Mirande is the capital of the "arrondissement" of Mirande.
Mirande is a "commune" found along the Baïse river in the "Astarac", a natural region that is part of "Gascony".
The "commune" has an area of and its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is .
Mirande is at from Auch, from Toulouse, from Tarbes and from Lourdes.
Mirande is surrounded by the following "communes", all of them part of the arrondissement of Mirande: Estipouy and Mouchès to the north, Miramont-d'Astarac to the northeast, Idrac-Respaillès to the east, Saint-Médard to the southeast, Berdoues to the south, Saint-Martin and Monclar-sur-Losse to the west and Montesquiou to the northwest.
The climate of Mirande, in the Köppen climate classification, is Cfb - Oceanic climate with template summers.
The inhabitants of Mirande are known, in French, as "Mirandais" (women: "Mirandaises").
With a population of 3,527 (2014), Mirande has a population density of inhabitants/km.
Evolution of the population in Mirande
Mirande is twinned with:
Daniel Bovet
Daniel Bovet (23 March 1907 – 8 April 1992) is an Swiss-born Italian pharmacologist.
Bovet won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1957 "for his discoveries relating to synthetic compounds that inhibit the action of certain body substances, and especially their action on the vascular system and the skeletal muscles".
In 1965, he was the leader of a study team which came to the conclusion that smoking of tobacco cigarettes increased users' intelligence. He later told The New York Times that the objective was not to "create geniuses, but only [to] put the less-endowed individual in a position to reach a satisfactory mental and intellectual development".
Baïse
The Baïse or Grande Baïse () is a French river that flows through the Hautes-Pyrénées, Gers and Lot-et-Garonne departments, in the Occitanie and Nouvelle-Aquitaine regions.
The river's source is in the Pyrenees and is a left tributary of the Garonne river. In general, it flows from south to north.
The Baïse river has a length of and a drainage basin with an area of .
Its average yearly discharge is at Nérac, a small town of the Lot-et-Garonne department that is at about of the confluence with the Garonne river. The largest discharges are during winter and spring, with in February.
Average monthly discharge (m/s) at Nérac
The source of the Baïse is on the Plateau de Lannemezan, in the Capvern "commune" (Hautes-Pyrénées), at an altitude of about .
The Baïse flows through 2 regions, 3 departments and 52 "communes". Some of the "communes" are:
Finally, it flows into the Garonne river at Saint-Léger (Lot-et-Garonne), at of altitude.
Niels Kaj Jerne
Niels Kaj Jerne (December 23, 1911 – October 7, 1994) was a Danish immunologist.
Jerne won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Georges J. F. Köhler and César Milstein in 1957. They won it "[f]or theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies".
According to Jerne's biographer Thomas Söderqvist, Jerne did not play the role of a bench scientist, he could not pipette accurately, and he did not enjoy experimental work. Jerne's Nobel Prize was awarded for theories, rather than discoveries. He developed the "natural selection theory of immunology," which was proposed by Paul Ehrlich 50 years earlier, although he was missing the clonal selection element proposed by David Talmage and later by Frank Macfarlane Burnet. James Watson had told Jerne that his theory "stinks."
He was married three times and had two sons, Ivar Jerne (born 1936) and Donald Jerne (born 1941), with Tjek Jerne. He had a third son, Andreas Wettstein, with Gertrud Wettstein, in 1971. According to Söderqvist, his wife Tjek was distraught when she had found out that Niels was having an affair with her best friend, Adda Sundsig-Hansen. Tjek had told Adda about her own affairs, and Adda then told Neils about them too. After hearing this, Niels demanded a divorce. Tjek begged him to stay but he refused. She would then kill herself. Her son Ivar had woken up in the morning, smelled gas, and found his mother dead by the oven. His second wife was treated as a servant and nanny by Jerne. He was regularly unfaithful to his wives, and even though he was not physically handsome, he had attracted women by his charm as a conversationalist and his skills in the arts of love, which included a liking for sadism.
George Davis Snell
George Davis Snell (December 19, 1903 – June 6, 1996) was an American mouse geneticist and basic transplant immunologist.
Snell won the Wolf Prize in Medicine in 1978. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1980 with Baruj Benacerraf and Jean Dausset. They won it "for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions". Snell specifically "discovered the genetic factors that determine the possibilities of transplanting tissue from one individual to another. It was Snell who introduced the concept of H antigens."