Rewriting Universes: Post-Brexit Futures in Dave Hutchinson’s Fractured Europe Quartet

How deadly is the "deadly quartet"? A post-CABG evaluation.

OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to determine the value of a cluster of metabolic risk factors in predicting mortality after coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG). BACKGROUND The "deadly quartet" of metabolic risk factors (i.e., obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and hypertriglyceridemia) has been associated with coronary heart disease in healthy population studies. The expected influence of...

Futures Studies of Salafi-Takfiri currents in the post-ISIS era

Salafi-Takfiri groups, as one of the most prominent intellectual branches of Islamic history, have always faced the Muslim world with a lot of tribulations and problems and by the vicissitudinouses, they have survived so far. Today, given the weakening and decreasing of the power of the Salafi-Takfiri groups, especially ISIS, in Iraq and Syria, which have entered into conflict in the midst of A...

Dave Brown

In October 2008, the Department of Justice approved the Delta/Northwest merger, claiming the potential for substantial cost efficiencies with little or no harmful effects on competition. What makes this merger particularly interesting is that Delta and Northwest are codeshare partners. As such, the merger could have varying effects across different product types (pure online versus codeshare). ...

Brexit and health services.

Quartet Compatibility and the Quartet Graph

A collection P of phylogenetic trees is compatible if there exists a single phylogenetic tree that displays each of the trees in P. Despite its computational difficulty, determining the compatibility of P is a fundamental task in evolutionary biology. Characterizations in terms of chordal graphs have been previously given for this problem as well as for the closely-related problems of (i) deter...