C are pervasive in economics, ranging from coordination problems in macroeconomics and finance to pricing and product selection issues in industrial organization. At the heart of complementarity is the notion, due to Edgeworth, that the marginal value of an action or variable increases in the level of another action or variable. Complementarities have been a recurrent and somewhat contentious t...

In this talk, we describe two recent developments in quantum algorithms. The first new development is a quantum algorithm for evaluating a Boolean formula consisting of AND and OR gates of size N in time O( √ N). This provides quantum speedups for any problem that can be expressed via Boolean formulas. This result can be also extended to span problems, a generalization of Boolean formulas. This...

In recent years, important advances have been made in our understanding of the genetics of porphyrias, particularly with respect to erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP) and congenital erythropoietic porphyria (CEP), 2 forms of erythropoietic porphyria no longer considered to be monogenic. The identification of mutations in genes not previously associated with these disorders as causative factors...

New Developments in Cardiac Pacemakers Print ISSN: 0009-7322. Online ISSN: 1524-4539 Copyright © 2013 American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved. is published by the American Heart Association, 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 75231 Circulation doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.112.000086 2013;127:2343-2350 Circulation. http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/127/23/2343 World Wide Web at: Th...

A review of the problem of neutrino mass, mixing and oscillations is given. Possible phenomenological schemes of neutrino mixing are discussed. The most important consequences of neutrino mixing–neutrino oscillations are considered in some details. The data of atmospheric, solar and LSND experiments are discussed. The results of phenomenological analyses of the data under the assumption of the ...

Welcome to Issue 3 of Public Health Research & Practice, where we explore the theme of tobacco control and the opportunities for policy makers and practitioners to work to reduce the burden of tobacco-related disease on government, the healthcare system and communities. There is general consensus that Australia’s comprehensive approach to tobacco control – strong regulation at federal and state...

Scheduling problems are widely recognized as important optimization problems. Thus, scheduling theory has become a fundamental area within the general field of combinatorial optimization. Multiprocessor and shop scheduling problems are known to be hard to solve optimally. Scheduling problems are naturally very varied, both in application domains and in featured constraints. To date, researchers...

There have been significant advances in the methods available for the detection and investigation of individuals with inherited metabolic disorders. The burgeoning of molecular biology in recent years and the discovery of new classes of inherited metabolic disorders, such as inborn errors of fat oxidation, are well known. What is perhaps less well recognised, is that there have been comparable ...

In Western countries, the transport of triacylglycerols by plasma triacylglycerol-rich lipoproteins (chylomicra and very-low-density lipoproteins (VLDL)) accounts for approximately 100 g lipids/d and represents a major pathway in the delivery of energy to tissues. Fat emulsions have been developed to resemble endogenous chylomicra (Wretlind, 1981). However, if the particle size of emulsion drop...