In the design theory for the relational data base model [6] the decomposition of a relation scheme according to some normal form has been advocated for as one means to avoid undesired redundancy and anomalies [7,8,16]. Desired characteristics of such a decomposition in the case of a relation scheme R with an associated set F of functional dependencies are the lossless-join property and the pres...

Rob Alba, Zhangjun Fei, Paxton Payton, Yang Liu, Shanna L. Moore, Paul Debbie, Jonathan Cohn, Mark D’Ascenzo, Jeffrey S. Gordon, Jocelyn K. C. Rose, Gregory Martin, Steven D. Tanksley, Mondher Bouzayen, Molly M. Jahn and Jim Giovannoni Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Cornell University Campus, Ithaca, NY, USA, Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, Depart...

1 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, 2 Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK, 3 Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, 4 Biology Department, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, USA, 5 Section Plant Biol...

The Saline versus Albumin Fluid Evaluation (SAFE) Study is a collaboration of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group, the Australian Red Cross Blood Service, and the George Institute for International Health. The writing committee (Simon Finfer, M.B., B.S., Rinaldo Bellomo, M.B., B.S., M.D., Neil Boyce, M.B., B.S., Ph.D., Julie French, R.N., John Myburgh, M....