Family complains that "love drug'"will smear their name

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First name / Family name Efi Papatheocharous

Context: Traditionally, embedded systems (ES) are tightly linked to physical products, and closed both for communication to the surrounding world and to additions or modifications by third parties. New technical solutions are however emerging that allow addition of plug-in software, as well as external communication for both software installation and data exchange. These mechanisms in combinati...

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Letters Embolic strokE as a latE complication of infErior vEna cava thrombosis Editor, We read with interest the article entitled " Inferior vena cava thrombosis in young adults – a review of two cases " by McAree et al. in the May 2009 Journal 1. In addition to the complications they describe, we recently encountered an unusual and late complication of the condition. A 73 year old male in sinu...

Tumor Archaeology Reveals that Mutations Love Company

The classical theory of cancer genome evolution posits that cancer development occurs through gradual accumulation of mutations or traits that increase cell survival (Armitage and Doll, 1954; Stratton et al., 2009). However, some aspects of cancer evolution can occur on a much shorter timescale. For example, in the recently reported phenomenon, chromothripsis, individual chromosomes can be shat...