Enjoying the small things

Big on Small Things

Should we sweat the small (micro) things?

Thirty years ago, a physician whose patient had diabetes and was urine protein dipstick–positive could only say, “You will most likely progress to end-stage renal disease in 10 years and need dialysis or a kidney transplant, and there is not much we can do about it.” Following the landmark microalbuminuria study of Mogensen and Christensen in 1984 (1 ), clinicians could say to patients with dia...

The beauty in small things revealed.

O xygenic photosynthesis accounts for nearly all the primary biochemical production of organic matter on Earth. The byproduct of this process, oxygen, facilitated the evolution of complex eukaryotes and supports their our continuing existence. Because macroscopic plants are responsible for most terrestrial photosynthesis, it is relatively easy to appreciate the importance of photosynthesis on l...

Enjoying cooperative games: The R package GameTheory

This paper focuses on cooperative games with transferable utility. We propose the computation of two solutions, the Shapley value for n agents, the nucleolus with a maximum of four agents and the per capita nucleolus. The current approach is also focused on conflicting claims problems, a particular case of coalitional games. We provide the computation of the most well-known and used claims solu...

Enjoying to Work

occasion of his 65th birthday. Mario is a unique combination of enthusiasm and mathematical talent, scientific devotion and altru-ism. He contributed massively and in a significant way to research in computer science. During the last decade his research was focused on membrane computing, where he contributed fundamental results especially related to computational complexity as well as results r...