A focused genetic workup is useful in determining the cause of familial microcephaly, especially in the setting of mildly different phenotypes. As illustrated by this case from an impoverished international urban location, one must not assume the etiology for the apparent familial microcephaly is the same for all affected members.

In an effort to address global warming, rich countries appear willing to reduce their own emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases (hereafter subsumed under the umbrella of CO2) by upwards of 80% or more by 2050, with the proviso that overall global emissions decline by 50%. One important justification for such targets is the notion that global warming will hurt the poorest people...

Q. Z. Wu, Z. F. Wang, A. Gbaguidi, C. Gao, L. N. Li, and W. Wang State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry (LAPC), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau, Beijing, China Gr...

This paper revisits the “sliding window” notion commonly encountered in communication protocols and applies it to the round numbers of round-based asynchronous protocols. This approach is novel. To illustrate its benefits, the paper presents an original weak failure detector-based consensus protocol that allows each process to be simultaneously involved in several rounds. The rounds in which a ...

As haematologists, we always seek to follow standardized guidelines for practice and apply the best treatment within our means patients with blood diseases. However, can never an exact formula. Opinions differ as approach; sometimes more than one approach results in identical outcomes, or treatments only by manner which they fail. Furthermore, haematologist is faced constraints relating local e...

We discuss a model of an economic community consisting of N interacting agents. The state of each agent at any time is characterized, in general, by a mixed strategy profile drawn from a space of s pure strategies. The community evolves as agents update their strategy profiles in response to payoffs received from other agents. The evolution equation is a generalization of the replicator equatio...

Address to: Dra. Juliana Pena Porto. FM/UFU. Avenida Pará 1720/Bloco 2U, Campus Umuarama, 38400-902 Uberlândia, MG, Brasil. Phone: 55 34 3218-2236; 55 34 8816-7987. e-mail: [email protected] Received 8 August 2014 Accepted 3 December 2014 Authors’ reply: Emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and extended spectrum β-lactamases, and mul...