The mammalian brain depends upon glucose as its main source of energy, and tight regulation
of glucose metabolism is critical for brain physiology. Consistent with its critical role for …

Infections are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with acute CNS injury. It
has recently become clear that CNS injury significantly increases susceptibility to infection …

Recent clinical and experimental studies have highlighted a complex role for the immune
system in the pathophysiological changes that occur after acute stroke. Sensors of the innate …

Condylomatous lesions, although readily diagnosed on the vulva, are often missed in the
vagina and on the cervix by clinical examination alone. The lesions are, however, quite …

A series of 726 patients with cytologic evidence of condylomatous lesions of the cervix was
reported. The cytologic detection rate of condylomata acuminata is now about one per cent of …

This paper presents an investigation of a simple generic hyper-heuristic approach upon a
set of widely used constructive heuristics (graph coloring heuristics) in timetabling. Within the …

This case-control study assesses relations of human papillomavirus (HPV) type 16 infection,
sexual history, cigarette smoking, and oral contraceptive use to low- and high-grade …

Nanoscale materials are currently being exploited as active components in a wide range of
technological applications in various fields, such as composite materials 1 , 2 , chemical …

Objective: To assess the prevalence of genital bacterial infection among women with vulvar
vestibulitis syndrome and to evaluate the association of several potential risk factors with the …

A new search algorithm for solving distributed constraint optimization problems (DisCOPs)
is presented. Agents assign variables sequentially and compute bounds on partial …