max independent set is a paradigmatic problem in theoretical computer science and numerous studies tackle its resolution by exact algorithms with non-trivial worst-case complexity. The best such complexity is, to our knowledge, the O(1.1889) algorithm claimed by (J. M. Robson, Finding a maximum independent set in time O(2), Technical Report 1251-01, LaBRI, Université de Bordeaux I, 2001) in his...

Reducing consumption of calories from added sugars is a recommendation of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and an objective of Healthy People 2020. Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) are major sources of added sugars in the diets of U.S. residents. Daily SSB consumption is associated with obesity and other chronic health conditions, including diabetes and cardiovascular disease. U.S. adul...

The efficiency of the carbon dioxide absorption by soda lime was determined in the following way. (1) " Circle " breathing. In six experiments, a subject breathing through a Waters canister fully packed with 425 g of fresh soda lime was connected to a closed circuit spirometer as described by Erikson et al. (1951). The expired air then passed the canister before entering the spirometer where th...

FOR patients who are breathing spontaneously the Magill attachment or system A (Mapleson, 1954) is the most widely used semiclosed anaesthetic system. A theoretical analysis predicted that if the freshgas inflow were made at least equal to the patient's minute-volume ventilation, then rebreathing would be eliminated (Mapleson, 1954). A similar conclusion has been reached experimentally by vario...

In a ground-breaking paper, Indyk and Woodruff (STOC 05) showed how to compute Fk (for k > 2) in space complexity O(poly-log(n,m) · n 2 k ), which is optimal up to (large) poly-logarithmic factors in n and m, where m is the length of the stream and n is the upper bound on the number of distinct elements in a stream. The best known lower bound for large moments is Ω(log(n)n 2 k ). A follow-up wo...