In this article we describe the summit sets in B3, the smallest element in a summit set and we compute the Hilbert series corresponding to conjugacy classes. The results will be related to Birman-Menesco classification of knots with braid index three or less than three.

Correction Following the publication of the original supplement article [1], it was brought to our attention that the supplement title unfortunately contains an error: “Proceedings of the 16th Annual UT-KBRIN Bioinformatics Summit 2016: proceedings” should instead read “Proceedings of the 16th Annual UT-KBRIN Bioinformatics Summit 2017: proceedings”. The correct title has been included in this ...

The Nuffield Trust European Summit (Euro-Summit) 2012 was a high-level event for European health leaders, focussing on how best to reform health care payment mechanisms to achieve high-value, sustainable care. The summit aimed to: • provide the latest information and evidence on major innovations on payment reform in Western Europe • draw out crosscountry learning around financially sustainable...

The first initiative I want to address involves our ongoing efforts to convene a pain summit involving all the leading stakeholders in the pain care community for the purpose of defining pain medicine, exploring certification and accreditation with the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and the American Board of Medical Specialties for the specialty of pain medicine, and setti...

Background: Although a number of studies have assessed the management of mania in routine clinical practice, no studies have so far evaluated the shortand long-term management and outcome of patients affected by bipolar mania in different European countries. The objective of the study is to present, in the context of a large multicenter survey (EMBLEM study), an overview of the baseline data on...

-The soils of the summit region of Mauna Kea are similar to the soils of the high mountain deserts and to the soils of cold deserts. Dramatic differences, however, exist between the soils of the summit and other neighboring cones and the soils of the glaciated terrain. The soils of some of the cones of the summit area are clay rich and contain phyllosilicate minerals; the soils of the glaciated...