The issue whether people with Type 1 Diabetes can safely fast during Ramadan has been the subject of quite a few debates over the years. Had it been a simple "yes" or "no" issue, there would have been no reason to debate. However, like a lot of other topics in medical management, this particular subject overlaps both the science and the art of medicine.

The priority dispute between Raymond Damadian and Paul Lauterbur over the 'invention' of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has attracted the attention of social and natural scientists for more than 30 years. In this paper, I have used this priority dispute to analyze the complex socio-epistemic processes through which a claim for an invention is made and strengthened. I argue that a tension exis...

0377-2217/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2010.09.009 ⇑ Tel.: +1 781 861 6279. E-mail address: [email protected] We propose and develop an efficient implementation of the robust tabu search heuristic for sparse quadratic assignment problems. The traditional implementation of the heuristic applicable to all quadratic assignment problems is of O(N) complexity per iteration ...

1 School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, email: {pg04043187, ASSYHUANG}@ntu.edu.sg Abstract. Intention scheduling mechanism plays a critical role in the correct behaviour of BDI agents. For human-like agents, the independent intentions should be scheduled based on their priorities, which show the respective importance and urgency of the intentions. W...

Hard real-time systems require predictable timing behavior, and priority-driven preemptive scheduling is increasingly being used in these systems. Resources in these enviroiments should ideally be allocated to the highest-priority task. Priority inversion is a situation in which a higher-priority job is forced to wait for a lower-priority job. Priority inversion degrades system schedulability. ...

Biologically, Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is highly heterogenous. AML with cup-like blast morphology variant has been reported to have important role in risk group stratification and treatment implications. In pediatric age group, this morphology and its clinical implication is rarely discussed. Although this morphology variant is not stated in World Health Organization (WHO) classification of...