Unwanted fly in merger ointment

Heart aging: a fly in the ointment?

Epidemiological studies have determined that age, per se, is the major risk for coronary artery disease, hypertension, and resultant chronic heart failure, which are the major diseases that affect our society. One interpretation of the marked effect of advancing age on the occurrence of these diseases is that aging is synonymous with these disease processes; another is that other defined risk f...

Concurrency - The Fly in the Ointment?

Concurrency is a central pillar of the Java programming language, is implicit in the transactional model of computation adopted by most persistent systems, and has been widely studied in the context of orthogonal persistence. We argue that despite the substantial literature on concurrency control and transaction models for orthogonal persistence, a basic question as to the interaction between c...

Unified gauge theories: an atomic-fly in the ointment.

Graft-versus-Host Disease: The Pesky Fly in the Ointment

suBMissiON Abstracts can be submitted for the BMT Tandem Meetings on either of the two Web sites. The deadline is october 8. HOusiNG lodging accommodations also can be accessed on either Web site. The housing deadline is January 11, 2008, after which accommodations are on a space-available basis. BlOOD sTeM Cell TRANsPlANTs eXCeeD 16,000 yeARly iN u.s. Currently more than 16,000 hematopoietic s...

When is a fly in the ointment a solution and not a problem?

You never know from where and when the next clue to any particular scientific problem will arise. In the case of cardiac function, it may have been in 1948 from Professor J.W.S. Pringle, who was trying to figure out how flies manage to fly upside down.1 Having mounted a truncated fly wing apparatus on a gyroscopic base, he serendipitously noted that when inertial and damping conditions were jus...