in the 21st century, distinctions and boundaries between global health, international politics, and the broader interests of the global community are harder to define and enforce than ever before. as a result, global health workers, leaders, and institutions face pressing questions around the nature and extent of their involvement with non-health endeavors, including international conflict reso...

The structural and energetic properties of solutions containing water, urea, and trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) are examined using molecular dynamics simulations. Such systems are of interest mainly because TMAO acts to counter the protein denaturing effect of urea. Even at relatively high concentration, TMAO is found to fit well into the urea-water structure. The underlying solution structure i...

To understand the link between financial intermediation activities and the real economy, we put forward a general equilibrium model where agency frictions in the financial sector affect the efficiency of capital reallocation across firms and generate aggregate economic fluctuations. We develop a recursive policy iteration approach to fully characterize the nonlinear equilibrium dynamics and the...

We describe how to use propositional model counting for a quantitative analysis of product configuration data. Our approach computes valuable meta information such as the total number of valid configurations or the relative frequency of components. This information can be used to assess the severity of documentation errors or to measure documentation quality. As an application example we show h...

An 8-bit programmable square finder cum frequency divider architecture is presented. This special architecture includes a high speed parallel counter, clock trigger circuit, eight bit multiplier logic, sequence termination logic and sequence restarter logic. The entire architecture is divided into two parts: The frequency divider section and the square finder section. The frequency divider circ...

background: until now, trimodal distribution of hbs has been seen by six different studies in the world when associated with alpha-thalassemia with confirmation by corresponding alpha-genotyping studies. the rbc indices reduce as alpha-globin genes reduce in sickle cell trait (sct) patients, which decreases the extent of intra-vascular sickling and thus betters the clinical course of the patien...

Although quasar absorbers, and in particular Damped Lyman-alpha systems (DLAs) have proven a valuable tool to study the early Universe, their exact nature is so far poorly constrained. It has been suggested that outflows in galaxies might account for at least part of the DLA population. Observational evidences and models in support of this hypothesis are reviewed, including recent observations ...

Searching for strangelets in cosmic rays may be the best way to test the possible stability of strange quark matter. I review calculations of the astrophysical strangelet flux in the GV–TV rigidity range, which will be investigated from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) on the International Space Station, and discuss the merits of strangelets as ultra-high energy cosmic rays at EeV–ZeV e...

We examined the time course and extent to which central and peripheral mechanisms contribute to the short-term effects of a 500-mg oral dose of alpha-methyldopa on supine mean arterial pressure, cardiac output, and total peripheral resistance, as well as its effects on total urinary excretion of norepinephrine and its metabolites, in five subjects with essential hypertension. Total peripheral r...