1 Department of Mathematics, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, 26111 Oldenburg, Germany, [email protected] 2 Department of Mathematics, Humboldt-University Berlin, 12489 Berlin, Germany, [email protected] 3 Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometrics and Epidemiology, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91054 Erlangen, Germany, benjamin.hofner@ imbe.m...

Galway, Ireland Cartilage Forming Capacity of Expanded Chondrocytes from Ear and Nose and their Expression Profiles Catharine A Hellingman, Eugène TP Verwiel, Inez Slagt, Wendy Koevoet, René ML Poublon, Gilbert J Nolst-Trenité, Robert J Baatenburg de Jong, Holger Jahr, Gerjo JVM van Osch [email protected] Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Radboud U...

Institutions: 1. Lung Function Lab, National Research Institute of TB & Lung Diseases, Warsaw, Poland 2. College of Public Health, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA 3. Department of Pulmonary Diseases and Sophia Children’s Hospital, Erasmus Medical Centre, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands 4. Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre Rotterdam, th...

Ann Rheum Dis March 2010 Vol 69 No 3 473 1Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2Erasmus Medical Centre, University of Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Correspondence to: Dr Vivian P Bykerk, Mount Sinai, 75 Francis Street, PBB-B3, Boston, MA 02115, USA; [email protected] When does rheumatoid arthritis start and can it be stopped before it does? Vivian P B...

This paper addresses the Rolling Stock Rebalancing Problem (RSRP) which arises within a passenger railway operator when the rolling stock has to be rescheduled due to changing circumstances. RSRP is relevant both in the short-term planning stage and in the real-time operations. RSRP has as input a timetable and a rolling stock circulation where the allocation of the rolling stock among the stat...

editorial board G. Agnelli, Perugia, Italy J.T. van Dissel, Leiden, the Netherlands R.O.B. Gans, Groningen, the Netherlands A.R.J. Girbes, Amsterdam, the Netherlands D.E. Grobbee, Utrecht, the Netherlands E. de Jonge, Leiden, the Netherlands D.L. Kastner, Bethesda, USA M.H. Kramer, Amsterdam, the Netherlands E.J. Kuipers, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Ph. Mackowiak, Baltimore, USA J.W.M. van der M...

The Rhine River Delta is crucial to the Dutch economy. The Maeslant barrier was built in 1997 to protect the Rhine estuary, with the city and port of Rotterdam, from storm surges. This research takes a simple approach to quantify the influence of the Maeslant storm surge barrier on design water levels behind the barrier. The dikes in the area are supposed to be able to withstand these levels. E...

OBJECTIVE SIRT1 has pleiotropic metabolic functions. We investigated whether SIRT1 genetic variation is associated with obesity. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS In 6,251 elderly subjects from the prospective, population-based Rotterdam Study, three single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the SIRT1 gene were studied in relation to BMI and risk of obesity (BMI > or =30 kg/m(2)) and prospectively ...

The use of the radial artery as preferred access site for coronary diagnostics and interventions is rapidly increasing worldwide given the extensive evidence demonstrating its benefit on vascular complications and mortality, its costeffectiveness, and the increased patient satisfaction in comparison with the femoral approach. However, this approach could be complicated by radial artery occlusio...

A number of recent theoretical studies have explored trading in fragmented markets, e.g. Biais et al. (2000), a phenomenon increasingly witnessed in modern markets. The key assumption generating the results is that there is at least one liquidity demander exploiting access to all markets by optimally splitting orders across markets. This paper seeks to test this assumption in a natural experime...