Western society is at the brink of an atrial fibrillation (AF) explosion. Already AF is the most common sustained arrhythmia worldwide; in the US alone the estimated prevalence in 2010 was between 2.7 to 6.1 million, and this is expected to rise to between 5.6 and 12 million by 2050 [1]. The source of this increase is multifactorial and our current ability to manage the condition is often subop...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to elucidate whether potato consumption is associated with a higher risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We analyzed data in three cohorts consisting of U.S. male and female health professionals without diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer at baseline: 70,773 women from the Nurses' Health Study (1984-2010), 87,739 women from Nurses' Health Stud...

Optical communication networks and air traffic management systems share the same fundamental routing problem as both optical packets and aircraft must continuously move within the network, while avoiding conflicts. In this paper, we explore the use of hot potato and deflection routing algorithms, which are established routing methods in optical communication networks, in the conflict-free routi...

Franco Pedreschi,1 Domingo Mery2 and Thierry Marique3 1Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología de Alimentos, Av. Ecuador 3769, Santiago de Chile, Chile 2Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Departamento de Ciencia de la Computación, Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860 (143), Santiago de Chile, Chile 3Centre pour l’Agronomie et l’Agro-Industrie de la Province de Hainaut ...

irish potatoes is rich in carbohydrate, with varied glucose levels. it is also a very good source of apyrase, an enzyme used for platelet storage. the aim of this study was to explore irish potatoes as an easily available source for apyrase extraction and purification. apyrase was extracted from 5 kg of irish potatoes. platelets were derived from 5-10 ml of human whole blood and g6pd activity w...

The present study, in line with a plant-food-based approach to address vitamin A deficiency, reports the analysis of total carotenoids, and trans- and cis-β-carotenes, in different varieties of raw and boiled orange-fleshed sweet potatoes (OFSP). Carotenoids were isolated using acetone-petroleum ether extraction followed by spectrophotometric determination. trans- and cis-β-Carotenes were analy...