asthma is a disorder of increasing severity and prevalence. recent knowledge about the pathogenesis of asthma emphasizes its inflammatory nature. cpg oligonucleotides are a class of compounds containing motifs based on the cytosine-guanine dinucleotides (cpg-odns). these motifs are suppressed in mammalian dna. they induce inflammation in mammals characterized by the induction of t helper type 1...

The Byzantine Agreement (BA) problem requires non-faulty processes to agree on a common value. In many applications, it is important that the processes agree on the correct value. In this paper, we present a problem called Accurate Byzantine Agreement with Feedback (ABAF) in which all processes receive common feedback from the environment indicating if the value they agreed upon was correct or ...

Abstract Near the end of ‘Naming Colours’, Lewis (1997) makes an interesting claim about relationship between linguistic and mental content; we are typically unable to read content a belief off sentence used express that or vice versa. I call this view ‘autonomism’. motivate defend autonomism discuss its importance in philosophy mind language. In nutshell, argue different theoretical roles play...

This themed collection of Soft Matter highlights the work emerging investigators in field soft matter. Editor-in-Chief Darrin Pochan introduces issue.