In 1965, the Sugar Research Foundation (SRF) secretly funded a review in the New England Journal of Medicine that discounted evidence linking sucrose consumption to blood lipid levels and hence coronary heart disease (CHD). SRF subsequently funded animal research to evaluate sucrose's CHD risks. The objective of this study was to examine the planning, funding, and internal evaluation of an SRF-...

To gain deeper insight into the epidemiology of HIV-1 transmission in South-East Austria we performed a retrospective analysis of 259 HIV-1 partial pol sequences obtained from unique individuals newly diagnosed with HIV infection in South-East Austria from 2008 through 2014. After quality filtering, putative transmission linkages were inferred when two sequences were ≤1.5% genetically different...

We study an equilibrium-based continuous asset pricing problem for the securities market. In previous work [M. Fujii and A. Takahashi (2022), SIAM J. Control Optim., 60, pp. 259--279], we have shown that a certain price process, which is given by solution to forward-backward stochastic differential equation of conditional McKean--Vlasov type, asymptotically clears market in large population lim...

mating the phylogeny and divergence times of primates using a supermatrix approach. BMC Evol Biol 9, 259 (2009)]. Other citations of reference 4 in the Article are correct.

Abstract This paper presents a new framework for modeling the bargaining process among stakeholders by coupling social choice and methods. Based on this framework, two methods of evolutionary coupled with Borda count (BBC) pairwise voting (BPV) are proposed, results applying them as challenging problems allocating water reclaimed wastewater in agricultural regions analyzed. After proposing some...

OBJECTIVE To compare the prevalence of Renal Colic (RC) in Ramadan (the month of fasting for Moslems) with other months of the lunar year. MATERIALS AND METHODS Records of 574 subjects, who were admitted in the two medical centers of Varamin (a city in a hot region of Iran), were reviewed in order to estimate the time trend of RC. RESULTS This study included 398 males (69.3%) and 176 female...

The epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is an essential and reversible embryonic phenomenon that produces motile cells from polarized epithelia via epigenetic reprogramming, allows for a switch between invasive, proliferative, drug-resistant phenotypes in carcinomas, associated with higher risk of metastasis worse prognosis. This has been observed non-epithelial cancers, as well, includi...