Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine (MRM) is changing, as new Editors-in Chief we are pleased to introduce the new MRM to our readers and authors. MRM history dates back to 2006, still a young Journal but with the aim to become a major player in the scientific field of respiratory diseases. Since then, MRM has taken long strides towards even more prestigious goals and it holds now a distingu...

BACKGROUND The evolution of altruism has been explained mainly from ultimate perspectives. However, it remains to be investigated from a proximate point of view how and in which situations such social propensity is achieved. We investigated chimpanzees' targeted helping in a tool transfer paradigm, and discuss the similarities and differences in altruism between humans and chimpanzees. Previous...

From the Department of Ophthalmology, Columbia University, New York, New York. The author has no financial or proprietary interest in the materials presented herein. Correspondence: Steven E. Brooks, MD, Edward S. Harkness Eye Institute, Columbia University, 635 West 165th Street, New York, NY 10032. E-mail: [email protected] doi:10.3928/01913913-20170705-01 Ophthalmic Suture: Making Ea...

A Mader matroid is obtained as follows. Let G = (V,E) be an undirected graph and let S1, . . . , Sk be disjoint subsets of V . Define S := S1 ∪ · · · ∪ Sk. Let I be the collection of all subsets I of S with the property that there exist disjoint paths P1, . . . , Pt such that each Pj has its ends in different sets Si and has no internal vertices in S and such that I is a subset of the set of en...

We report on the X-ray aperiodic timing analysis of two accreting millisecond pulsars: XTE J1807–294 and IGR J00291+5934. On the one hand, we discovered in XTE J1807–294 seven pairs of simultaneous kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations (kHz QPOs) separated in frequency by nearly the spin frequency of the neutron star. This confirms the suspected dichotomy in the frequency separation of kHz QPOs...

Agile Processes and Formal Methods (FM), water and oil, impossible mixture? Yes at first sight. Nevertheless, being formal methods weight processes and being agile processes informal approaches to software development, it is worth to study how much formal can be an agile process like Extreme Programming (XP) and how much agile can be a formal method. On our view, some XP practices are suitable ...

This chapter will shift the focus of attention away from the problems of understanding linguistic change that have occupied the discussion so far in order to examine the opposite situation: stable linguistic variation. The first step in a considered study of linguistic change is not the examination of change, but rather an investigation of the sociolinguistic patterns in the particular speech c...

We propose robust hyperlinks as a solution to the problem of broken hyperlinks. A robust hyperlink is a URL augmented with a small "signature", computed from the referenced document. The signature can be submitted as a query to web search engines to locate the document. It turns out that very small signatures are sufficient to readily locate individual documents out of the many millions on the ...