The paper titled “SystemAccuracy Evaluation of the GlucoRx NexusVoiceTD-4280BloodGlucoseMonitoring System” [1], published in Disease Markers, has been retracted upon the authors’ request, as the routine hospital laboratory evaluation protocol used varied from recommended best practice study design. Although this protocol established the fact that GlucoRx Nexus Voice system was clinically accura...

The paper extends Breggren et al. (2008, EE) on ‘trust and growth: a shaky relationship” by incorporating recent developments in the trust-growth literature and using a robust methodological underpinning that accounts for the presence of outliers. The empirical evidence is based on 63 countries. Two main findings are established. First, the substantially documented positive trust-growth nexus i...

Within the scope of the research project NEXUS that is being worked on at the University of Stuttgart in cooperation between the Institute for Photogrammetry, the Institute of Parallel and Distributed High-Performance Systems and the Institute of Communication Networks and Computer Engineering, a generic platform supporting location aware applications with mobile users will be developed. In ord...

The energy-water nexus has been studied predominantly through discussions of policy options supported by data surveys and technology considerations. At a technological level, there have been attempts to optimize coupling points between the electricity and water systems to reduce the water-intensity of technologies in the former and the energy-intensity of technologies in the latter. To our know...

‎‎in this paper‎, ‎we define fuzzy subnexuses over a nexus $n$‎. ‎define and study the notions of the prime fuzzy subnexuses and the fractions‎‎induced by them‎. ‎finally‎, ‎we show that if s is a meet‎‎closed subset of the set fsub(n), ‎of fuzzy subnexuses of a nexus n‎, ‎and‎‎h= ⋀s ϵ s, ‎then the fractions s^-1 n and h^-1 n are isomorphic as meet-semilattices‎.

Agency Theory as the dominant view of Corporate Governance disregards that the key task of firm governance is to generate, accumulate, transfer, and protect firm specific knowledge. Three different foundations to the theory of the firm which underpin different concepts of corporate governance are discussed: The traditional view of the firm as a nexus of contracts, the view of the firm as a nexu...

THE heart muscle was conceptualized as an anatomical syncytium for many years (Heidenhain, 1901; Godlewsky, 1902). With the development of electron microscopy, it was proved that cardiac fibers are composed of isolated cells separated by specialized zones—the so-called intercalated discs (Sjostrand and Andersson, 1954). The discs comprise three junctional specializations: (1) the macula adhaere...

Genotoxicity is the most commonly used endpoint to predict the carcinogenicity of chemicals. The International Conference on Harmonization (ICH) M7 Guideline on Assessment and Control of DNA Reactive (Mutagenic) Impurities in Pharmaceuticals to Limit Potential Carcinogenic Risk offers guidance on (quantitative) structure-activity relationship ((Q)SAR) methodologies that predict the outcome of b...

INTRODUCTION The Choosing Wisely campaign currently recommends avoiding computed tomography (CT) of the head in low-risk emergency department (ED) patients with minor head injury, based on validated decision rules. However, the degree of adherence to this guideline in clinical practice is unknown. The objective of this study was to evaluate adherence to the Choosing Wisely campaign's recommenda...

NeXuS[1] is a framework for the development of Augmented Reality (AR) applications that utilises perceptive intentional agents to create rich interactive environments where traditional boundaries between virtual and physical spaces may be overcome. The NeXuS framework demonstrates how behavioural realism can be achieved by placing such agents within an AR environment. Fig. 1 illustrates how a N...