The diagnosis of curable, secondary causes of hypertension is a satisfying but challenging aspect, for both patient and doctor, of the clinical management of hypertension. They are probably under-recognized, and the enthusiasm to look for causes is blunted by low pickup rates in unselected patients. Young age encourages a search more because the alternative is many decades of drug treatment tha...

We present in this paper a constrained version of the problem of enumerating all maximal directed acyclic subgraphs (DAG) of a graph G. In this version, we enumerate stories, which are maximal DAGs whose sources and targets belong to a predefined subset of the nodes. First we show how to compute one story in polynomial-time, and we then describe two different algorithms to “tell” all possible s...

Men and women (20 each) were videotaped while describing someone they liked, someone they disliked, someone they were ambivalent about, someone they were indifferent about, someone they liked as though they disliked him or her, and someone they disliked as thought they like him or her. Accuracy at detecting that some deception had occurred was far greater than accuracy at detecting the true und...

Peer-prediction [18] is a (meta-)mechanism which, given any proper scoring rule, produces a mechanism to elicit privately-held, non-verifiable information from self-interested agents. Formally, truth-telling is a strict Nash equilibrium of the mechanism. Unfortunately, there may be other equilibria as well (including uninformative equilibria where all players simply report the same fixed signal...

Gatica et al. (2013) report the development of a new device, the sperm selection assay (SSA), for enriching the content of high-quality, functionally competent cells in a human sperm sample. The device is technically simple, but exploits a sophisticated characteristic of many motile cells and organisms—their ability to direct their movement in response to the concentration gradient of a chemica...

Information on the Web includes a huge diversity of opinions, viewpoints, sentiments, emotions, and biases. Accordingly, more and more methods, techniques and tools are available to extract these semantics from text. Representation and exchange of diversity-related information can be easily supported by the use of semantic technologies. For this, we introduce the Knowledge Diversity Ontology (K...

BACKGROUND The prominence of sedentary behavior research in health science has grown rapidly. With this growth there is increasing urgency for clear, common and accepted terminology and definitions. Such standardization is difficult to achieve, especially across multi-disciplinary researchers, practitioners, and industries. The Sedentary Behavior Research Network (SBRN) undertook a Terminology ...

al-tamthil wal muhadhara written by al-thaalibi is one of the brilliant books in arabic language. this book is unique in its kind because of a number of iranian ancient proverbs and wisdom. among which there are arabicized persian proverbs rooted in far-off ancient history still in common use today. this paper studied these age-old and yet familiar proverbs which are never thought of being root...