The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is to host the European School of Internal Medicine for two years from 2009-10. This affords a unique opportunity for specialist registrars to exchange ideas about professional development and training and to make contacts with young internists from across Europe. Such links should prove useful for future RCP initiatives in European medicine.

This paper studies the Robust Coloring Problem (RCP), a variant of the Minimal Coloring Problem which maintains the number of colors fixed. In this problem, two non-adjacent vertex that have the same color are penalized. The sum of penalties of a coloring is called rigidity level. To solve the RCP, an Iterated Local Search (ILS) algorithm using the Random Variable Neighborhood Descent (RVND) lo...

Horticultural crop production and changes in physiological aspects during the growing season may be affected by climate change factors (CC), which include increased temperature and the associated doubling or tripling of atmospheric CO2 concentrations. However, the potential effects are complex and many parameters might impact on the observed effects. To evaluate the effects of CC, the growth, y...

BACKGROUND The benefit of retrograde cerebral perfusion (RCP) with profound hypothermic circulatory arrest has been subject to much debate. We examined our experience with ascending and transverse arch repairs to determine the impact of retrograde cerebral perfusion on stroke and mortality. METHODS AND RESULTS Between August 1991 and June 2007, we performed 1107 repairs of the ascending and t...

BACKGROUND The current standard of care for men with muscle-invasive bladder cancer is radical cystoprostatectomy (RCP). One-third of RCP specimens demonstrate incidental prostate cancer, primarily reported in small series with limited follow-up. The aim of this study is to report mature outcomes, including patterns of failure and disease-specific recurrence rates, and survival, for a large coh...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to analyse the early and long-term results of completion pneumonectomy (CP). METHODS A retrospective review of consecutive patients who underwent CP in the Shanghai Chest Hospital. RESULTS Fifty-six CP were performed between January 2003 and July 2013. There were 45 conventional CP (CCP) and 11 rescue CP (RCP) cases. CCP was defined as resection of the r...

An infinite product IIT= lMi of matrices converges (on the right) if limi __ M, . . . Mi exists. A set Z = (Ai: i > l} of n X n matrices is called an RCP set (rightconvergent product set) if all infinite products with each element drawn from Z converge. Such sets of matrices arise in constructing self-similar objects like von Koch’s snowflake curve, in various interpolation schemes, in construc...

OBJECTIVE To compare the childhood urinary tract infection (UTI) guidelines from the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) in 1991 and from National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) (CG54) in 2007 by measuring their efficiency at detecting urinary tract abnormalities. DESIGN Children with UTIs within the Newcastle Primary Care Trust (population 70,800 children) were referred and ima...