BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Accumulating evidence suggests that telomere length is a maker for biological aging of the cardiovascular system. Whether stroke is associated with accelerated biological aging as measured by telomere length has not been conclusively demonstrated. Our aim was to determine whether mean leukocyte telomere length is a predictor for the development of stroke. METHODS The re...

OBJECTIVES This study aims to investigate the relationship between clinical and US findings together with the prevalence and distribution of US findings indicative of monosodium urate (MSU) crystal deposition within the foot in patients with gout. METHODS A total of 50 patients with gout attending the in-patient and the out-patient clinics of the Rheumatology Departments were prospectively en...

Abstract We study a strict version of the notion equilibrium robustness by Kajii and Morris (Econometrica 65:1283–1309, 1997) that allows for larger class incomplete information perturbations given complete game, where with high probability, players believe their payoffs are close to (but may be different from) those game. show monotone potential maximizer game is strictly robust if either or a...

Istituto di Strutturistica Chimica del CNR, 1-00016 Monterotondo Stazione; and Dipartimento di Chimica, Universitä di Roma, 1-00185 Roma, Italy Z. Naturforsch. 37b, 1309-1311 (1982); received May 17, 1982 Through-Conjugation, Benzene Ring Distortions A new X-ray diffraction study of jo-nitroaniline shows that through-conjugation has highly significant effects on the geometry of the molecule, as...

This work studies the problem of optimally locating sensors for monitoring chemical processes, formally known as the sensor network design and upgrade problem. This problem is an integer programming problem and has been solved to global optimality only using tree search methods using depth-first strategy. In this article, we exploit certain cost properties of the different nodes in the tree to ...

The purpose of this note is to correct statements of some assertions in [1]. The mistake occurs in the argument of the case in which the normal bundle ν over P (h, i) is nonstandard. Specifically, some incorrect calculations first happen in the arguments of the cases u = 0 and u > 1 of page 1309 (in the proof of Lemma 3.4 of [1]). This leads to the loss of the existence of some involutions with...