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Consanguinity, marriage between relatives, has been associated with perinatal mortality and morbidity. Apnea of prematurity is defined as the cessation of breathing for longer than 20 seconds or that of any duration if accompanied by cyanosis and sinus bradycardia, for infants born before 37 weeks of gestation. The objective of the study was to examine the association between consanguinity and ...

BACKGROUND Discrimination against old age leads to depressive symptoms and lower self-esteem. This issue is not studied in the Lebanese society where a demographic transition is taking place and the population is aging. We assess the perception of age discrimination among Lebanese and its relation to self-esteem. METHODS We interviewed a convenience sample of 320 Lebanese elders (mean age 69....

We define three hard problems in the theory of elliptic divisibility sequences (EDS Association, EDS Residue and EDS Discrete Log), each of which is solvable in subexponential time if and only if the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem is solvable in sub-exponential time. We also relate the problem of EDS Association to the Tate pairing and the MOV, Frey-Rück and Shipsey EDS attacks on th...

1Department of Dental Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Liège, Quai Godfroid Kurth 45, 4020 Liege, Belgium 2Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon 3Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dentistry, Aichi-Gakuin University, 2-11 Suemori-dori, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi-ken 464-8651, Japan 4CITS-Center of ...

A. Vazquez, A. Flammini, A. Maritan and A. Vespignani 1 Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA 2 International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) and INFM, V. Beirut 2-4, 34014 Trieste, Italy 3 The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, P.O. Box 586, 34100 Trieste, Italy and 4 Laboratoire de Physique Theorique (UMR du CNRS 8627), atiment 2...

S. Raghavan, A. Smerzi, and V. M. Kenkre Rochester Theory Center for Optical Science and Engineering, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia and International School for Advanced Studies, via Beirut 2/4, I-34014 Trieste, Italy Center for Advanced Studies and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Universit...

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Napoli Mostra d’Oltremare Padiglione 20, 80125 Napoli, Italy, Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche Mostra d’Oltremare Padiglione 19, 80125 Napoli, Italy, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati Via Beirut 2-4, 34013 Trieste, Italy, Nuclear Safety Institute Russian Academy of Sciences 52 Bolshaya Tulskaya, Moscow 113191, Russia, Dipartimento...

The molecular alterations responsible for the characteristic enzyme abnormalities in pyruvate kinase (PK) deficiency were investigated in two unrelated children homozygous for PK deficiency. Both variant enzymes were characterized according to the recommendations of the International Committee for Standardization in Haematology. Genomic DNA was specifically amplified by the polymerase chain rea...

BACKGROUND There are few cross-national comparisons of the rates of suicide ideation and attempts across diverse countries. Nine independently conducted epidemiological surveys using similar diagnostic assessment and criteria provided an opportunity to obtain that data. METHODS Suicide ideation and attempts were assessed on the Diagnostic Interview Schedule in over 40000 subjects drawn from t...