Drinking too much of the bubbly? It?s not clear if you?re a regular or diet soda drinker, but regular soda is a source of sugar, caffeine, sometimes coloring, and little else. One twelveounce can of regular soda typically contains eight teaspoons of sugar and 130 calories ? but zero nutritional content. The American Heart Association [2] recommends that individuals assigned male at birth limit ...

Drinking too much of the bubbly? It?s not clear if you?re a regular or diet soda drinker, but regular soda is a source of sugar, caffeine, sometimes coloring, and little else. One twelveounce can of regular soda typically contains eight teaspoons of sugar and 130 calories ? but zero nutritional content. The American Heart Association [2] recommends that individuals assigned male at birth limit ...

Drinking too much of the bubbly? It?s not clear if you?re a regular or diet soda drinker, but regular soda is a source of sugar, caffeine, sometimes coloring, and little else. One twelveounce can of regular soda typically contains eight teaspoons of sugar and 130 calories ? but zero nutritional content. The American Heart Association [2] recommends that individuals assigned male at birth limit ...

This report describes the isolation, sequencing, and functional analysis of the sodA gene, encoding Mn-superoxide dismutase, from Streptococcus thermophilus AO54. The gene was found to encode a 201 amino acid polypeptide with 88 and 83% identity to SodA from Streptococcus mutans and Streptococcus agalacticae, respectively. Primer extension analysis revealed a transcriptional start site 27 nucle...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate and compare the effectiveness in reducing plaque of a fluoride dentifrice containing baking soda and a non-baking soda fluoride dentifrice containing an antimicrobial (triclosan/copolymer) system after a single brushing and over a four-week period of daily brushing. METHODS A total of 207 subjects completed this randomized, blinded, parallel-group clinical study. Twenty-...

In a recent breakthrough, Paz and Schwartzman [SODA’17] presented a single-pass (2 + ε)approximation algorithm for the maximum weight matching problem in the semi-streaming model. Their algorithm uses O(n log n) bits of space, for any constant ε > 0. In this note, we present a different analysis, for essentially the same algorithm, that improves the space complexity to the optimal bound of O(n ...

Drinking too much of the bubbly? It?s not clear if you?re a regular or diet soda drinker, but regular soda is a source of sugar, caffeine, sometimes coloring, and little else. One twelveounce can of regular soda typically contains eight teaspoons of sugar and 130 calories ? but zero nutritional content. The American Heart Association [2] recommends that individuals assigned male at birth limit ...

In this paper, we study the 3D strip packing problem in which we are given a list of 3dimensional boxes and required to pack all of them into a 3-dimensional strip with length 1 and width 1 and unlimited height to minimize the height used. Our results are below: i) we give an approximation algorithm with asymptotic worst-case ratio 1.69103, which improves the previous best bound of 2 + ǫ by Jan...

Given a set S of n points in the Euclidean plane, two-center problem is to find two congruent disks smallest radius whose union covers all S. Previously, Eppstein (SODA’97) gave randomized algorithm $$O(n\log ^2\!n)$$ expected time and Chan (CGTA’99) presented deterministic ^2\!n\log ^2\log n)$$ time. In this paper, we propose an algorithm, which improves Chan’s matches bound Eppstein. If conve...

We revisit the problem of estimating Renyi Entropy from samples, focusing on the important case of collision entropy. With n samples we approximate the collision entropy of X within an additive factor of O ( 2 log 1 2 (1/ ) ) with probability 1− , where ∆ is a known (a priori) upper bound on the difference between Renyi entropies of X of order 2 and 3 respectively. In particular, we simplify an...