Background & Aims: Date syrup is a natural sweetener rich in antioxidants. In addition, fructose is the predominant sugar in date syrup, which elevates blood glucose at a slower pace than the other types of sugar. The objective of this study was to evaluate the glycemic response of healthy persons to dietetic sour cherry jam prepared with date syrup. Methods: In this clinical trial, the glycemi...

Phantom traffic jams may emerge “out of nowhere” from small fluctuations rather than being triggered by large, exceptional events. We show how phantom jams arise in a model of single lane highway traffic, which mimics human driving behavior. Surprisingly, the optimal state of highest efficiency, with the largest throughput, is a critical state with traffic jams of all sizes. We demonstrate that...

Despite the crowdedness of the interior of cells, microtubule-based motor proteins are able to deliver cargoes rapidly and reliably throughout the cytoplasm. We hypothesize that motor proteins may be adapted to operate in crowded environments by having molecular properties that prevent them from forming traffic jams. To test this hypothesis, we reconstituted high-density traffic of purified kin...

The ow of vehicular traac has been studied in many diierent ways. After an introduction, we will give overview of several models for the ow on single lane road: a uid dynamics theory, a approach based on the dynamics of individual vehicles and a model using a cellular automata. The latter model will be used to study to ow in two dimensions representing the traac in a city with crossings and tra...

We consider optimally coordinated freeway traffic control for networks containing bottlenecks with capacity drop. Due to the multitude of traffic jams, and the spatial and temporal relationships between control actions and traffic behavior, this coordinated control problem is not as straightforward as for local control. The order in which the measures are applied may be relevant, or it may be p...

Junctional adhesion molecules (JAMs) are members of an immunoglobulin subfamily expressed by leukocytes and platelets as well as by epithelial and endothelial cells, in which they localize to cell-cell contacts and are specifically enriched at tight junctions. The recent identification of extracellular ligands and intracellular binding proteins for JAMs suggests two functions for JAMs. JAMs ass...

We consider optimally coordinated freeway traffic control for networks containing bottlenecks with capacity drop and hysteresis behavior. Due to the multitude of traffic jams, and the spatial and temporal relationships between control actions and traffic behavior, this problem is not as straightforward as for local control. The order in which the measures are applied may be relevant, or it may ...

Game jams are social events involving the integration of enthusiasts from various game making disciplines (e.g. programming, art, design) to make games under constraints, such as a short fixed time (Goddard et al. 2014) and a common theme (Fowler et al 2013). Research on game jams has suggested that they have the potential to provide an effective and focused experience and that participants gai...