0377-2217/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2010.06.031 * Tel.: +49 40 6541 2591. E-mail address: [email protected] The article presents theoretical and experimental investigations of computational intelligence techniques for machine sequencing problems. Contrary to other approaches, which are experimentally driven only, our work is motivated by gaining insights in t...

BACKGROUND Rapid weight gain has been recently associated with asthma at school age, but its influence in respiratory symptoms during infancy is still unknown. METHODS Answers from 6541 parents living in six different cities of Brazil to the International Study of Wheezing in Infants (EISL) questionnaire were analysed. Data from reported weight and height at birth and at one year were used to...

In this study the L segment and the 5' and 3' termini of the S, M and L segments of the prototype Tula hantavirus (TUL) were sequenced, thus completing the first determination of the genome sequence of a hantavirus that has not been linked to any human disease. The TUL L segment comprises 6541 nt with one ORF of 6459 nt in the antigenome sense. This ORF potentially encodes a 2153 aa protein wit...

The Lake Champlain Basin in Vermont and New York, USA and Quebec, Canada includes a large lake and watershed with complex management issues. A transboundary comprehensive management plan prepared for the lake includes 11 goals across many issue areas. We developed a choice experiment to examine public preferences for alternative Lake Champlain management scenarios across these issue areas. Five...

The formation process of multiple populations in globular clusters is still up for debate. Kinematic differences between the are particularly interesting this respect, because they allow us to distinguish single-epoch scenarios and multi-epoch scenarios. We analyze kinematics 25 aim find kinematic constrain their process. split red-giant branch (RGB) stars each cluster into three (P1, P2, P3) t...

Elucidation of the mechanisms responsible for aberrant phosphatidylcholine (PC) metabolism in cancer cells may allow identification of novel biomarkers of tumor progression and design of new targeted anticancer therapies. We recently reported up-regulation of PC-specific phospholipases in epithelial ovarian cancer cells (EOC) compared with nontumoral (normal or immortalized) counterparts (EONT)...

The first case of poliomyelitis was reported in Korea in 1939. The inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) and the oral polio vaccine (OPV) were introduced in 1958 and 1962, respectively. The National Immunization Program (NIP) was established in 1966 and poliomyelitis was designated as a second-class communicable disease [1]. The number of reported cases decreased dramatically from 6541 in 1960e1964 t...

BACKGROUND Inflammation is a highly prevalent condition among end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients and it has been implicated with several metabolic derangements. Considering the harmful effect of hypermetabolism on nutritional status and clinical outcomes of ESRD patients, we aimed to investigate the relationship between proinflammatory cytokine interleukin-6 (IL-6) and energy expenditure i...

BACKGROUND The acid-suppressive agents have been linked with an increased risk of infectious disease. The relationship between these drugs and Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (TB) was not been reported. METHODS We conducted a case-control study using data from National Health Insurance research database of Taiwan. From 1996 till 2008, and 6541 cases were defined as TB infection/activation (ICD-9 c...