There seems to be something in the air: democratic societies around the world have had a rough time recently. Some, such as Turkey, Hungary and Poland, appear to be moving towards what Hungary’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, calls an “illiberal democracy,” soft authoritarianism veiled in the trappings of traditional democracies. The United Kingdom votes to Brexit from the European Union, leadin...

OBJECTIVE To estimate mortality from diabetes mellitus (DM) for the period 2001-2011 in the Republic of Panama, by province/indigenous territory, and determine its relationship with biological and socioeconomic risk factors. METHODS Cases for the years 2001-2011 with DM listed as the principal cause of death were selected from Panama's National Mortality Registry. Crude and adjusted mortality...

Conventional computation models assume symbolic representations of states and actions. Gurevich’s “Abstract-State Machine” model takes a more liberal position: Any mathematical structure may serve as a state. This results in “a computational model that is more powerful and more universal than standard computation models” [5]. We characterize the Abstract-State Machine model as a special class o...

Clay-Based Robust Hemostats In article 2202265 by Mingxian Liu, Yuri Lvov, and co-workers, an efficient clay hemostat of halloysite nanotubes is tightly assembled onto cotton fibers capillaries mediated a biopolymer alginate with Ca2+ crosslinking. This dressing maintains high clotting activity after washing only few residuals in the wound. strategy balances robustness, biosafety, effectiveness...

Kinematic strategies in newly walking toddlers stepping over different support 1 surfaces 2 3 4 Nadia Dominici, Yuri P. Ivanenko, Germana Cappellini, Maria Luisa Zampagni, 5 Francesco Lacquaniti 6 7 8 Laboratory of Neuromotor Physiology, Santa Lucia Foundation, via Ardeatina 306, 00179 9 Rome, Italy, Centre of Space Bio-medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, via 10 Montpellier 1, 00133 Rome,...

Quisani: Hello, I think we met before? Author: Yes, I visited Kevin Compton and Yuri Gurevich some time ago in Ann Arbor. Q: I remember it. You are not a logician, aren’t you? A: No, but I would like to talk with you about questions of logic related to the theory of finite automata. Q: I already read a column by Kevin Compton and Howard Straubing on a similar topic [13]. Are you too interested ...