Scientific advances in the last years have helped to clarify the role of diet in the prevention of premature mortality resulting from noncommunicable diseases. In particular chronic diseases, thus like obesity, diabetes mellitus, hypertension between others have become a significant cause of premature death. The World Health Organization (WHO), have a analyzed this problem and elaborated some d...

The Radio Link Frequency Assignment Problem is an abstraction of a real life military application that involves the assigning of frequencies to radio links. This problem set consists of eleven instances that are classed as either a Constraint Satisfaction Optimization Problem or a Partial Constraint Satisfaction Problem. Each problem has di erent optimization and constraint requirements, and ca...

Populations are often divided categorically into distinct racial/ethnic groups based on social rather than biological constructs. Genetic ancestry has been suggested as an alternative to this categorization. Herein, we typed over 450,000 CpG sites in whole blood of 573 individuals of diverse Hispanic origin who also had high-density genotype data. We found that both self-identified ethnicity an...

TABLE OF CONTENTS Medicine and the State, with Special Reference to the E.M.S. The Right HIoni. WALTEIR ELLIOT, F.R.C.P., F.R.S. ......................................................911 Congenital Obliteration of Bile Ducts and Icterus Gravis Neonatorum M. 0. SKELTON, M.B., and GEOFFREY FH. TOVEY, M.D . .D .............................. ............. 914 The Rh Factor and Blood Transfusion W. ...

Novel low-power or semiactive devices are developed for vibration suppression applications. By manipulating the structural stiffness, the resisting forces generated by the devices are quite large and independent of velocity. Experimental results are presented to demonstrate the feasibility of the devices and to justify the main assumptions used. The critical design issue of device placement is ...

Background: Ticlopidine, an antiplatelet agent with a unique mechanism of action, is now available for clinical use in the United States and Canada. Summary of Comment: Recently two large randomized trials demonstrated that ticlopidine can reduce the risk of subsequent stroke in patients presenting with a transient ischemic attack or stroke. One study found that ticlopidine was more effective t...

There was an error published in ‘The many faces of hematopoietic stem cell heterogeneity’ by Mihaela Crisan and Elaine Dzierzak (2016). Development 143, 4571-4581 (doi: 10.1242/dev.114231). Acknowledgement of funding from the European Research Council was inadvertently omitted. The revised Funding section appears below. The authors apologise to readers for this mistake. Funding Work in our labo...

This paper addresses the Clustered Orienteering Problem, a recent variant of the Orienteering Problem. In this variant, customers are grouped into subsets called clusters. A profit is assigned to each cluster and is collected only if all customers belonging to the cluster are served. The objective is to visit the customers of a subset of clusters in order to maximize the total collected profit ...