MS Research Roundup: August 8, 2014

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IDSA Ebola Summary—August 2014

We write to provide an update on the evolving Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Of particular relevance for infectious disease specialists is information on the identification and care of possible imported cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in the United States. This communication is current as of August 21, 2014, and contains links to the sources where anticipated updates will be found in the nea...

Persian-translation vol. 11, no. 4, August 2014

Summary of Papers as of August 2014

• Published 1. Rectilinear equilateral sets in Rn, Geombinatorics, 20 (2011) 151–167. Kusner (1983) conjectured that the maximum size of a set whose elements are pairwise equidistant under the `1-norm in Rn is 2n. If true, this would be sharp. The conjecture has been proved for n = 3 (in 1998) and n = 4 (in 2000). Recently, Alon and Pudlak gave an upper bound of O(n lnn). These proofs are very ...