Constructing a query consisting of a set of terms or descriptors is often an iterative process. To the user, the starting query and the nal result could be strongly related. These two queries could even be worthy of a link between them. This paper presents a method for deciding when a link between two descriptors is justiied. The decision hinges on the way in which the user has moved from one t...

Metabolism generates oxygen radicals, which contribute to oncogenic mutations. Activated oncogenes and loss of tumor suppressors in turn alter metabolism and induce aerobic glycolysis. Aerobic glycolysis or the Warburg effect links the high rate of glucose fermentation to cancer. Together with glutamine, glucose via glycolysis provides the carbon skeletons, NADPH, and ATP to build new cancer ce...

The idea that all life on earth traces back to a common beginning dates back at least to Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species. Ever since, biologists have tried to piece together parts of this ‘tree of life’ based on what we can observe today: fossils, and the evolutionary signal that is present in the genomes and phenotypes of different organisms. Mathematics has played a key role in helping tra...

There is compelling evidence of a close relationship between the upper and lower airways in asthma and rhinitis. Rhinitis is present in the majority of patients with asthma, and a significant minority of patients with rhinitis have concomitant asthma. Similarities between the two conditions occur in the nature of the inflammation present in the target tissues. A common initiating step in the in...

One of the major problems in turbulent combustion is to predict the turbulent burning velocity, which can be increased by the turbulence compared to the laminar burning velocity. This requires the solution to a reacting ow problem, where the turbulence is coupled to the chemical reaction. The diculties lie in the fact that many disparate spatial and temporal scales are present in the convection...

Understanding the generation and evolution of defects induced in matter by ion irradiation is fundamental importance to estimate degradation functional properties materials. Computational approaches used dierent communities, from space radiation eects nuclear energy experiments, are based on a number approximations that, among others, traditionally neglect coupling between electronic ionic degr...

The application of stable isotope analysis (SIA) has become a standard scientific approach in Agricultural and Ecological researches and, more in general, in several disciplines such as biology, botany, zoology, organic chemistry, climatology, and nutrition. The main objectives of this paper are (1) to provide a simple definition of stable isotopes and (2) to illustrate analytical measurement m...

Methods 251 individuals participated in this study: 1. 42 with autism without allergies 2. 42 women (mothers of the autistic patients) without autism 3. 104 allergic patients without autism 4. 63 normal health controls The ASST was performed injecting intradermically 0,05 ml of the each own serum in the volar surface of the forearm. Saline was used as a negative control. After 15 minutes the we...