Background: We aimed to detect whether risk stratification of hemodialysis (HD) patients with a combination of both malnutrition-inflammation score (MIS) and hand grip strength (HGS) indices identified more precisely patients at increased risk of protein-energy wasting (PEW). Methods: This was a deductive-analytical cross-sectional study. We determined the HGS...

Recent data of two-body nonleptonic B meson decays allow a topological-amplitude analysis up to the O(λ2) accuracy, where λ denotes the Wolfenstein parameter. We find a solution from the B → ππ data and a solution from the B → Kπ data, which satisfy the approximate SU(3) flavor symmetry. These solutions indicate that the colorsuppressed tree amplitude is large, all other amplitudes can be under...

In mid August Dexter Kozen, Joseph Newton Pew, Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, will give a short course of six lectures on Set Constraints. Set constraints are inclusions between expressions denoting sets of ground terms. They have been used extensively in program analysis and type inference. The course will give an introduction to the theory and applications...

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Recent data of two-body nonleptonic B meson decays allow a topological-amplitude analysis up to the O(λ2) accuracy, where λ denotes the Wolfenstein parameter. We find an exact solution from the B → ππ data and an exact solution from the B → Kπ data, which satisfy the approximate SU(3) flavor symmetry. These solutions indicate that the color-suppressed tree amplitude is large, all other amplitud...

A few months ago, the Washington Post ran an article [2] titled, "Stop assuming that families with lots of children are religious." The article supported its case with some data from Pew (2014 Religious Landscape Study [3]), which surveyed 35,000 Americans, and anecdotes about the plight of large secular families that must bear the heavy burden of answering questions from strangers who assume t...

Requests for reprints should be addressed to David C. Plaut, Mellon Institute 115-CNBC, Carnegie Mellon University, 4400 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-2683, USA. E-mail: plaut6cmu.edu This work was supported Žnancially by the NIH/NIMH (Grant MH47566) and by the McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience (Grant T89-01245-016). I thank Marlene Behrmann, Matt Lambon Ralph, Jay McClelland...