An auction is “a market institution with an explicit set of rules determining resource allocation and prices on the basis of bids from the market participants” (McAfee and McMillan, 1987).1 Auctions are among the oldest market institutions; “marriage auctions” for brides were used in Babylon as early as 500 BC. Products commonly bought and sold using auctions include art and jewelry, US Treasur...

OBJECTIVE Parental body image dissatisfaction (BID) is associated with children's weight in cross-sectional studies; however, it is unknown whether BID predicts development of adiposity. The objective of the present study was to investigate the associations between maternal dissatisfaction with her or her child's body and children's BMI trajectories. DESIGN Longitudinal study. Maternal dissat...

Objective: To assess the efficacy and tolerability of using high dose Furazolidone just during the first week of two different quadruple regimens in eradicating H. pylori. Methodology: One-hundred sixty patients with duodenal ulcer and positive H. pylori infection were randomly allocated into two groups. Group A received (OAM-F) omeprazole (20 mg BID), amoxicillin (1gr BID), metronidazole (500m...

In this work we introduce the class of graphs with bounded induced distance of order k, (BID(k) for short). A graph G belongs to BID(k) if the distance between any two nodes in every connected induced subgraph of G is at most k times their distance in G. These graphs can model communication networks in which node failures may occur: at a given time, if sender and receiver are still connected, a...

A Matters Arising recently published in Cell by Kaufmann et al. (2007) concludes that the BH3-only Bid protein is dispensable for the DNA damage response. Based on our earlier findings that ATM-mediated Bid phosphorylation is essential for S phase arrest and for the regulation of apoptosis in response to DNA damage (Kamer et al., 2005; Zinkel et al., 2005), we would like to emphasize that we re...

Prior real-world studies have shown that apixaban is associated with a reduced risk of stroke/systemic embolism (stroke/SE) and major bleeding versus warfarin. However, few studies evaluated the effectiveness and safety of apixaban according to its dosage, and most studies contained limited numbers of patients prescribed 2.5 mg twice-daily (BID) apixaban. Using pooled data from 4 American claim...

INTRODUCTION In a preceding trial comparing two different titration schemes, insulin degludec/insulin aspart (IDegAsp) showed good efficacy for achieving HbA1c <7% when administered twice daily (BID) in patients with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes (T2D). However, poor glycemic control persisted in a minority of patients. The current exploratory trial investigated the efficacy and safety of intens...

To compare the effect of ritonavir on plasma amprenavir pharmacokinetics, healthy adults received either fosamprenavir (700 mg twice a day [BID]) or amprenavir (600 mg BID) alone and in combination with ritonavir (100 mg BID). Ritonavir increased plasma amprenavir pharmacokinetic parameters to a similar extent when coadministered with either fosamprenavir or amprenavir.

In electronic auction applications, small-value merchandise is often distributed. We call this kind of auction micro auction. Compared to traditional general-purpose electronic auction, micro electronic auction has its own special requirements. Especially, micro auction must be very efficient: the cost of the auction protocol must not be over the cost of the merchandise for sale. Although the m...