The study on lifestyle-intervention and impaired glucose tolerance Maastricht (SLIM) is a 3 years randomised clinical trial designed to evaluate the effect of a combined diet and physical activity intervention program on glucose tolerance in a Dutch population at increased risk for developing type 2 diabetes. Here the design of the lifestyle-intervention study is described and results are prese...

Recently, single linear induction motor(SLIM), which comes from rotary induction motor(RIM), has been widely applied in transportation systems, especially in intermediate speed arrange, because of its merits, such as ability to exert thrust on the secondary without mechanical contacts, high acceleration or deceleration, less wear of the wheels, smaller turn circle radius and more flexible road ...

We show that any rational polytope is polynomial-time representable as a “slim” r × c× 3 three-way line-sum transportation polytope. This universality theorem has important consequences for linear and integer programming and for confidential statistical data disclosure. It provides polynomial-time embedding of arbitrary linear programs and integer programs in such slim transportation programs a...

In May 2007, the Instituto Carso de la Salud-now Instituto Carlos Slim de la Salud (ICSS)-was endowed with US$500 million to focus on priority health issues in Latin America, notably issues of 'globalisation and non-communicable diseases'. ICSS was soon criticised, however, on the grounds that its funding was derived from tobacco industry profits and that its founder Carlos Slim Hélu remained a...