The most recent European Society of Cardiology (ESC) guidelines recommend primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) as the preferred treatment for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) whenever it is available within 90–120 min of the first medical contact [1]. However, timing of symptom onset appears to be hard to adjudicate precisely, and 'ischaemic time' thereby usually e...

In this work we selected double-stranded DNA sequences capable of forming stable triplexes at 20 or 50 degrees C with corresponding 13mer purine oligonucleotides. This selection was obtained by a double aptamer approach where both the starting sequences of the oligonucleotides and the target DNA duplex were random. The results of selection were confirmed by a cold exchange method and the influe...

Widow remarriage practices in the Punjab-Haryana region of northern India are described as frequently mismatched and undesirable alliances, without widow choice, which serve to support the practice of polygamy. The average spacing between arranged spouses could be 10 years, with the younger spouse being the brother-in-law (this customary practice of remarriage within the husbands' family is ca...

Balanced Stable Marriage (BSM) is a central optimization version of the classic (SM) problem. We study BSM from viewpoint Parameterized Complexity. Informally, input consists n men, women, and an integer k. Each person has (sub)set acceptable partners, A(a), whom ranks strictly; we use pa(b) to denote position b∈A(a) in a's preference list. The objective decide whether there exists stable match...