We consider three-person envy games with a proposer, a responder, and a dummy player. In this class of games, the proposer, rather than allocating a constant pie, chooses the pie size which the responder can then accept or reject while the dummy player can only refuse his own share. While the agreement payoffs for the responder and the dummy are exogenously given, the proposer acts as the resid...

Rule Responder is an intelligent rule-based system for collaborative teams and virtual communities that uses RuleML as its knowledge interchange format. This multi-agent infrastructure allows these virtual organizations to collaborate in an automated manner. It is implemented as a Web Service application on top of Mule, an Enterprise Service Bus. It supports rule execution environments (rule/in...

We studied participants with T2DM participating in the Health Benefits of Aerobic and Resistance Training in Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes (HART-D) trial that were randomized to a control group or one of three supervised ET groups for 9 months. Fitness response to ET was defined as a change in measured peak absolute oxygen uptake (DVO2peak, in liters per minute) from baseline to follow-up. E...

Background Methadone therapy is a major protocol in opioid addiction cases in many health care systems. Population-based studies have shown that in addicted people, the genetic profile affects their response to methadone therapy. Therefore, this study designed to examine the frequency of two SNPs of the CYP2B6 gene (rs3745274 and rs3211371) in addicted cases in two methadone-responders and meth...

BACKGROUND Abdominal obesity, atherogenic dyslipidemia and hypertension are essential risk factors for cardiovascular diseases. Several studies showed favorable effects of weight loss in overweight subjects on cardiometabolic risk profile. METHODS This open-label, randomized, controlled study investigated the effect of an energy-restricted modified diet with (MR) or without meal replacements ...

Rule Responder is an intelligent multi-agent infrastructure for collaborative teams and virtual communities. Within these communities, each participant can be assisted by a semi-automated agent which utilizes rules to respond to messages posed by users. Each Rule Responder instantiation uses three different kinds of agents: An Organizational Agent (OA), Personal Agents (PAs), and External Agent...

Objective. The aim was to correlate protein concentrations of S100A9 in pretreatment serum samples with response to the tumour-necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitor drugs etanercept in a large UK replication cohort. Methods. Pretreatment serum samples from patients with RA (n = 236) about to commence treatment with etanercept had S100A9 serum concentration measured using an ELISA. Following the exp...