Editorial – Cohabitation, marriage and separation: contrasts in Europe • Premarital cohabitation: more common in the north than in the south p. 2 • Cohabitation leads less often to marriage p. 2 • Fewer men and women are marryingp. 2 • Unions are more short-lived p. 3 • Several unions in a lifetime: a general trend? p. 4 • Box: Study population p. 4 C O N TE N TS are not marrying at all. Unions...

In today's fiercely competitive products market, product warranty has started playing an important role. The warranty period offered by the manufacturer/dealer has been progressively increasing since the beginning of the 20th Century. Currently, a large number of products are being sold with long-term warranty policies in the form of extended warranty, warranty for used products, service contra...

The SPIN extension presented in this article is meant as a way to facilitate the modeling and verification of object-oriented programs. It provides means for the formal representation of some run-time mechanisms intensively used in OO software, such as dynamic object creation and deletion, virtual function calls, etc. This article presents a number of language extensions along with their implem...

As transistor features shrink beyond the 2 nm node, studying and designing for atomic scale effects become essential. Being able to combine conventional CMOS with new fabrication routes capable of creating 2D patterns highly doped phosphorus layers precision has implications future digital electronics. This work establishes accelerated lifetime tests such layers, showing that these materials su...

Background Women with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC) have an estimated 15-65% lifetime risk of ovarian cancer; similarly, women with Lynch syndrome have a 40-60% lifetime risk of endometrial cancer and a 10-12% lifetime risk of ovarian cancer. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of genetic testing on risk-reducing behavior for gynecologic malignancies in women being...