Presentation of the Nephrology Quiz and Questionnaire has become an annual tradition at the meetings of the American Society of Nephrology. It is a very popular session judged by consistently large attendance. Members of the audience test their knowledge and judgment on a series of case-oriented questions prepared and discussed by experts. They can also compare their answers in real time, using...

Doctor Vasudevan is Clinical Professor of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Medical College of Wisconsin, and Clinical Professor of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was a member of American Pain Society panel on developing guidelines for the management of pain in Osteoarthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and Juvenile Chronic Arthritis. Doctor Potts is a resident...

Conic quadratic optimization is the problem of minimizing a linear function subject to the intersection of an affine set and the product of quadratic cones. The problem is a convex optimization problem and has numerous applications in engineering, economics, and other areas of science. Indeed, linear and convex quadratic optimization is a special case. Conic quadratic optimization problems can ...

Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is one of the most popular vegetables in many regions of the world. Pulses are important sources of protein for vegetarian population. Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) commonly known as gram is an important pulse crop. In Tunisia, the cultivated area and production have significant instability and decrease, the chickpea crop was affected by biotic and abiotic constrai...

Recently, a walk-and-round heuristic was proposed by Huang and Mehrotra [26] for generating high quality feasible solutions of mixed integer linear programs (MILPs). This approach uses geometric random walks on a polyhedral set to sample points in this set. It subsequently rounds these random points using a heuristic, such as the feasibility pump. In this paper, the walk-and-round heuristic is ...

In this paper we develop a practical primal interior decomposition algorithm for two-stage stochastic programming problems. The framework of this algorithm is similar to the framework in Mehrotra and Özevin [17, 18] and Zhao [30], however their algorithm is altered in a simple yet fundamental way to achieve practical performance. In particular, this new algorithm weighs the log-barrier terms in...

MUC5B is the predominant polymeric mucin in human saliva [Thornton, Khan, Mehrotra, Howard, Veerman, Packer and Sheehan (1999) Glycobiology 9, 293-302], where it contributes to oral cavity hydration and protection. More recently, the gene for another putative polymeric mucin, MUC19, has been shown to be expressed in human salivary glands [Chen, Zhao, Kalaslavadi, Hamati, Nehrke, Le, Ann and Wu ...

Yong Rui, Thomas S. Huang and Sharad Mehrotra Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Dept. of Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL 61801, USA E-mail:fyrui,[email protected] and [email protected] ABSTRACT While existing shot-based video analysis approaches provide users with better access to the ...

Several investigations have shown that mean scores in intelligence tests are lower (by about 5 points on the conventional scale with mean of 100) for twins than for single births (Mehrotra & Maxwell, 1949; Sandon, 1957; Drillien, 1961). The reasons for the difference are by no means clear. It has been suggested on tbe one hand that they may result mainly from prenatal influences (Churchill, 196...