Our Good Neighbor Hurdle

The Good Neighbor

The prevalence of obesity is rising globally, and the United States has one of the highest obesity rates in the world: ≈17% of the young and >33% of adults are obese. Obesity is associated with chronic low-grade systemic inflammation, which is considered a critical underlying factor in the development of insulin resistance (IR). IR is a major risk factor for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and ...

The Tightly Super 2-good-neighbor connectivity and 2-good-neighbor Diagnosability of Crossed Cubes

Mass data processing and complex problem solving have higher and higher demands for performance of multiprocessor systems. Many multiprocessor systems have interconnection networks (networks for short) as underlying topologies and a network is usually represented by a graph where nodes represent processors and links represent communication links between processors. The network determines the pe...

How good is our genome?

Our genome has evolved to perpetuate itself through the maintenance of the species via an uninterrupted chain of reproductive somas. Accordingly, evolution is not concerned with diseases occurring after the soma's reproductive stage. Following Richard Dawkins, we would like to reassert that we indeed live as disposable somas, slaves of our germline genome, but could soon start rebelling against...

The clinic as a good corporate neighbor

Clinics today specialize in health repair services similar to car repair shops; procedures and prices are standardized, regulated, and inflexibly uniform. Clinics of the future have to become Health Care Centers in order to be more respected and more effective corporate neighbors in offering outreach services in health education and preventive health care. The traditional concept of care for he...

Good Neighbor Environmental Board Third Annual Report