Duygu Akbulut, ∗ Tom Strudley, † Jacopo Bertolotti, ‡ Erik P.A.M. Bakkers, 4 Ad Lagendijk, Otto L. Muskens, Willem L. Vos, and Allard P. Mosk § Complex Photonic Systems (COPS), MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK Depar...

Two studies were conducted to determine the effects of dietary cholesterol (CHO) and cholesterol oxides (COPs) on the development of atherosclerosis and the changes in fatty acid and blood characteristics in rabbits. In the first study, forty male New Zealand white rabbits were divided into 5 groups and fed commercial rabbit chow with no added CHO or COPs, 1 g CHO, 0.9 g CHO + 0.1 g COPs, 0.8 g...

The work presented in this paper aims to elaborate a model of knowledge evaluation within ICT solutions-supported Communities of Practice (e-CoPs). It is placed in the context of Knowledge Management (KM) services that are developed in the PALETTE project dedicated to enhance learning dynamics within e-CoPs. Building upon a study of participation and reification processes within e-CoPs, we dist...

We study the problem of cops and robbers on the grid where the robber is allowed to move faster than the cops. It is well known that two cops are necessary and sufficient to catch the robber on any finite grid when the robber has unit speed. Here, we prove that when the speed of the robber is a sufficiently large constant, the number of cops needed to catch the robber on an n× n grid is exp(Ω(l...

Copy Number Alterations (CNAs) such as deletions and duplications; compose a larger percentage of genetic variations than single nucleotide polymorphisms or other structural variations in cancer genomes that undergo major chromosomal re-arrangements. It is, therefore, imperative to identify cancer-specific somatic copy number alterations (SCNAs), with respect to matched normal tissue, in order ...