Prolonged immobilization of the human body results in functional impairments and musculoskeletal system deconditioning that may be attenuated by adequate muscle exercise. In a 56-day horizontal bed rest campaign involving voluntary males we investigated the effects of vibration muscle exercise (RVE, 2·6 min daily) on the lower limb skeletal muscles using a newly designed foot plantar trainer (G...

The Farrell-Jones warping deformation is a powerful geometric construction that has been crucial in the proofs of many important contributions to the theory of manifolds of negative curvature. In this paper we study this construction in depth, in a more general setting, and obtain explicit quantitative results. The results in this paper are key ingredients in the problem of smoothing Charney-Da...

The L polypeptide chains of certain Bence-Jones proteins of group I have been found in three forms: monomers of molecular weight of about 20,000, dimers which monomerize in dissociating solvents, and dimers which are stable in such solvents. The L polypeptide chains of some Bence-Jones proteins of group II were found to occur naturally only as stable dimers. The L chains of normal human gamma-g...

Quite justifiably, one of his examples was quantum computing. I am quite sure that the regular contributors to this journal would agree: our view of quantum mechanics has been transformed by the efforts of our pioneering colleagues in computer science. This helpful little book by Kaye, Laflamme and Mosca is an attempt to bring this new view to a wider undergraduate audience who, according to th...

142 Double-Blind, Randomized Trial of Alternative Letrozole Dosing Regimens in Postmenopausal Women with Increased Breast Cancer Risk Ana Maria López, Sandhya Pruthi, Judy C. Boughey, Marjorie Perloff, Chiu-Hsieh Hsu, Julie E. Lang, Michele Ley, Denise Frank, Josephine A. Taverna, and H-H. Sherry Chow 149 Relationship of Terminal Duct Lobular Unit Involution of the Breast with Area and Volume M...

I would like to thank my advisor, Gerard Cornuéjols, for his support and his precious guidance. I also want to express my gratitude towards Michele Conforti, who introduced me to the field of combinatorics when I has an undergraduate student in Padova, and encouraged me to continue. Several parts of this dissertation resulted from working jointly with Michele Con-forti, Gerard Cornuéjols, and K...

We prove a multiparameter version of a classical theorem of Jones and Journé on weak-star convergence in the Hardy space H.