We present a tight analysis for the well-studied randomized 3-majority dynamics of stabilizing consensus, hence answering the main open question of Becchetti et al. [SODA’16]. Consider a distributed system of n nodes, each initially holding an opinion in {1, 2, . . . , k}. The system should converge to a setting where all (non-corrupted) nodes hold the same opinion. This consensus opinion shoul...

Currently for bacterial identification and classification the rrs gene encoding 16S rRNA is used as a reference method for the analysis of strains of the genus Nocardia. However, it does not have enough polymorphism to differentiate them at the species level. This fact makes it necessary to search for molecular targets that can provide better identification. The sodA gene (encoding the enzyme s...

IN No. 1, Vol. III., of the JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY Dr. Gaskell records some experiments regarding the respective action of antiarin, hydrate of soda, muscarin, and digitalin on the ventricle of the frog's heart. In this paper I record some experiments on the action of soda, ammonia, and potash on the same structure. In most respects my experiments with soda hydrate agree with those of Dr. Gaskel...

This study presents results from stable isotope analyses of a modern stalagmite and three soda straw stalactites from Kapsia Cave, the Peloponnese, Greece. The resulting values from the stalagmite are put into context of local meteorological data, as well as previous research from Kapsia Cave. The potential for using soda straw stalactites as complementary climate archives on shorter time scale...

The purpose of this paper is to describe educational efforts to increase dental students' knowledge concerning oral and systemic health effects of carbonated beverage (soda/pop) consumption. Multiple choice pre- and post-tests were developed and administered to seventy-three first-year dental students. An educational brochure was developed and distributed during a lecture on the effects of soda...

BACKGROUND Health concerns over soda pop drinks have been severally report. However, histological perspectives are not very common. AIM The objective of this study is to investigate histological effect of chronic consumption of soda pop drinks on the kidney of adult Wistar rats. MATERIALS AND METHODS The rats of both sexes (n = 24), with average weight of 200g were randomly assigned into tw...

Labeling schemes seek to assign a short label to each node in a network, so that a function on two nodes (such as distance or adjacency) can be computed by examining their labels alone. For the particular case of trees, following a long line of research, optimal bounds (up to low order terms) were recently obtained for adjacency labeling [FOCS ’15], nearest common ancestor labeling [SODA ’14], ...