In 1989, Barker et al reported a correlation between lower birth weights and increased risk for death in adulthood from ischemic heart disease men born 1911-1930 England (Lancet 1989;2:577-80. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(89)90710-1). Many subsequent studies have affirmed the relationship weight conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, obesity. this volume of The Journal Pediatrics...

In this paper two key venues of investigation in game analytics are combined: behavioral profiling and social network analysis. Both venues of research are well developed but combined they permit pattern evaluation across player performance and networks. Here, competitive networks covering almost 3.5 million players of the hybrid online shooter game Destiny are developed and combined with behav...

"Pro captu lectoris habent sua fata libelli" (" According to the capabilities of the reader, books have their destiny ") Terentianus Maurus, 2 nd century roman grammarian

tau.amegroups.com © Translational Andrology and Urology. All rights reserved. Over the past 50 years the short term outcome of kidney transplantation has improved significantly but maintaining the graft long term has remained a challenge (1). Today, with the help of calcineurin inhibitors, we are able to keep the acute rejection rates low (less than 10%) (2). However, we have very few weapons i...

All meetings on the human genome include at least one talk, and often an entire session, devoted to discussing the ethical, social and legal aspects of genome research. The questions are always the same. If it is true that we can read the futures of people from their genes, should we be doing genome research? And, if we are going ahead anyway, what will be the consequences for society? Some yea...