BACKGROUND Methadone Medical Maintenance (MMM) was implemented in 1983 to enable socially rehabilitated methadone patients to be treated in the offices of private physicians rather than in the traditional clinic system. Over a period of 15 years, 158 methadone patients who fulfilled specific criteria within the clinic system entered this program in New York City. Participating patients reported...

Yannakakis and Gavril showed in [10] that the problem of finding a maximal matching of minimum size (MMM for short), also called Minimum Edge Dominating Set, is NP-hard in bipartite graphs of maximum degree 3 or planar graphs of maximum degree 3. Horton and Kilakos extended this result to planar bipartite graphs and planar cubic graphs [6]. Here, we extend the result of Yannakakis and Gavril in...

Implementations of Montgomery’s modular multiplication algorithm (MMM) typically make conditional subtractions in order to keep the output within register or modulus bounds. For some standard exponentiation algorithms such as m-ary, it has been shown that this yields enough information to deduce the value of the exponent. This has serious implications for revealing the secret key in cryptograph...

MMM usually presents with fatigue, weight loss, splenomegaly with or without symptoms. Anemia and various alterations of the white blood cell and/or platelet count are frequently seen at diagnosis. Thrombocytopenia-related bleeding may occur. MMM must be distinguished from myelodysplasia with fibrosis, from acute megakayoblastic leukemia and acute myelofibrosis. As the disease progresses, incre...

Lithium calcium niobium oxide (2/1.5/3/10), Li(2)Ca(1.5)Nb(3)O(10), has been synthesized by conventional solid-state reaction. Its structure consists of triple-layer perovskite slabs of corner-sharing NbO(6) octa-hedra inter-leaved with lithium ions; Ca cations partially occupy the perovskite A sites at 75% occupancy probability. All eight atoms in the asymmetric unit are on special positions: ...