This essay studies Moses Galeano, a Jewish scholar with ties to Crete and the Ottoman Sultan's court, who traveled to the Veneto around 1500. After describing Galeano's intellectual milieu, it focuses, first, on circumstantial evidence that he transmitted information central to the rise of Renaissance astronomy. Galeano knew of theories that strongly resemble portions of astronomy texts written...

The current study applies a relationship marketing approach to examine how universities use Twitter to communicate with their audiences. To explore social media strategies related to top-ranked universities’ Twitter activity, Kotler’s (1992) model of five levels of relationship building was refined and operationalized. A content analysis of 1375 tweets distributed by 22 universities was conduct...

Dial Transplant 2010; 25: 1373–1375 3. Breborowicz A, Polubinska A, Oreopoulos DG. Changes in volume of peritoneal cells exposed to osmotic stress. Perit Dial Int 1999; 19: 119–123 4. Gotloib L, Wajsbrot V, Shostak A et al. Effect of hyperosmolarity upon the mesothelial monolayer exposed in-vivo and in-situ to a mannitol enriched dialysis solution. Nephron 1999; 81: 301–309 5. Gotloib L. Mechan...

We describe a consensus-type algorithm for determining all the maximal complete bipartite (not necessarily induced) subgraphs of a graph. We show that by imposing a particular order in which the consensus type operations should be executed, this algorithm becomes totally polynomial. By imposing a further restriction on the way the algorithm has to be executed, we derive an improved variant of i...

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) has important maternal and fetal implications. In 2010, the Health Service Executive published guidelines on GDM. We examined the impact of the new guidelines in a large maternity unit. In January 2011, the hospital replaced the 100 g Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT) with the new 75 g OGTT. We compared the first 6 months of 2011 with the first 6 months of 2...

Aims, Objectives and Background To date, few studies effectively quantify the long-term incidence of death directly related to injury. The absence detailed mortality data underlying cause information following trauma results in an inadequate understanding a potential underestimation true consequences injury on individual population level. This study takes nationwide approach identify one-year p...