Background: Coronary artery disease is mainly caused by atherosclerosis and its complications. Platelets and their activity have an important role in initiation of atherosclerotic lesions and coronary thrombus formation. Larger platelets are enzymatically and metabolically more active and have a higher potential thrombotic ability as compared with smaller platelets. Aim: To compare platelet vol...

Gent and Prosser proposed the first constraint model for the Stable Marriage problem with Ties and Incomplete preference lists (SMTI). Their model was based upon the simple Stable Marriage (SM) model proposed by Gent et al, in which for each man woman pair a constraint is posted consisting of a set of no good pairs of values. Prosser and Unsworth proposed a specialised binary constraint for SM ...

For examining vitamins, exact quantitations in natural matrices are essential. Up to date, one of the most accurate quantitation methods is the stable isotope dilution assay (SIDA), which is based on the use of isotopically labelled analogues of the analytes as internal standards. The merits of SIDA include the ideal compensation for losses, superior specificity and enhanced sensitivity due to ...

Popular matching and was extensively studied in recent years as an alternative to stable matchings. Both type of matchings are defined in the framework of Stable Marriage (SM) problem: in a given bipartite graph G = (A,B;E) each vertex u has a strict order of preference on its neighborhood. A matching M is popular, if for every matching M ′ of G, the number of vertices that prefer M ′ to M is a...

Background—Systemic markers of inflammation have been found in unstable angina. Disruption of culprit coronary stenoses may cause a greater inflammatory response in patients with unstable than those with stable angina. We assessed the time course of C-reactive protein (CRP), serum amyloid A protein (SAA), and interleukin-6 (IL-6) after single-vessel PTCA in 30 patients with stable and 56 patien...

BACKGROUND Systemic markers of inflammation have been found in unstable angina. Disruption of culprit coronary stenoses may cause a greater inflammatory response in patients with unstable than those with stable angina. We assessed the time course of C-reactive protein (CRP), serum amyloid A protein (SAA), and interleukin-6 (IL-6) after single-vessel PTCA in 30 patients with stable and 56 patien...