Welcome to the first issue of Electronic Markets’ 19th volume as well as the first issue of Electronic Markets with our new publisher Springer. It includes a compelling research section which consists of two extended conference articles from the Bled Conference 2008 and three general research articles. Last year’s Bled Conference covered the topic “e-Collaboration: Overcoming Boundaries through...

to achieve a breakthrough in the World Trade Organization’s Doha Round. Their goal is to get an agreement by the end of 2008. Developing countries should pull the plug on this moribund round until rich countries can agree to a new framework that lives up to Doha’s promise to be a “Development Round” that favours poorer countries. As rich country leaders try to rally negotiators for yet another ...

Health claims on food products, which aim at informing the public about the health benefits of the product, represent one type of nutrition communication; the use of these is regulated by the European Union. This paper provides an overview of the research on health claims, including consumers’ perceptions of such claims and their intention to buy products that carry healthrelated claims. This i...

Deniz YÜCEL1, Mehmet OĞUZ2, Osman YÜKSEL2, Güldal YILMAZ3, Özge Tuğçe PAŞAOĞLU4, Nedim SULTAN5 1 Department of General Surgery, Mersin Anamur State Hospital, Mersin, Turkey 2 Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Gazi, Ankara, Turkey 3 Department of Medical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Gazi, Ankara, Turkey 4 Department of Medical Biochemistry, Facult...

Some gifted students have specific literacy learning disabilities in areas such as reading, writing and spelling. The present study uses a ‘differentiated models of giftedness and talent’ framework to examine the learning characteristics of these students. The students, 65 gifted primary school students in Melbourne, had a disability in literacy performance in at least one of reading prose accu...

The Rockefeller University Press $30.00 J. Cell Biol. Vol. 204 No. 6 989–1007 www.jcb.org/cgi/doi/10.1083/jcb.201309022 JCB 989 Correspondence to Gero Steinberg: [email protected] A. Berepiki’s present address is The James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA, Scotland, UK. Abbreviations used in this paper: CC, coiled coil; EE, early endosome; FHIP, FTSand Hook-interacting prote...

This paper deals with Expert Systems (ES) development as the final product of a Software Product Line. (SPL). We take into account software variability management in the ES domain. Two kinds of variability emerge: variability in the behavior as well as in the structure of such systems. Experts' knowledge is captured using domain conceptual models in order to manage the variability and functiona...

Neutrophil (PMNL) function is influenced by factors released by other immune cells during the course of the immune response. We investigated the effect of neutrophil cell density and the effect of supernatant of the phagocytosis assay on the phagocytosis activity of PMNLs. The measurements were carried out with naive (control) PMNLs of healthy donors and with PMNLs obtained from patients with s...

We are given n data points x1, . . . , xn and some way to compute similarities between them, call si,j the similarity between the n points. Assume that the similarity function is symmetric, so si,j = sj,i. For the purposes of this lecture let us just consider the simplified clustering problem where we would like to split the dataset into two clusters. We would like to find a subset S ⊂ [n] of s...