Publications by authors named "J D Cartlidge"

Dark pools are financial trading venues where orders are entered and matched in secret so that no order information is leaked. By preventing information leakage, dark pools offer the opportunity for large volume block traders to avoid the costly effects of market impact. However, dark pool operators have been known to abuse their privileged access to order information.

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  • Coevolutionary algorithms evaluate individuals based on their performance against evolving opponents, unlike standard evolutionary algorithms that use a fixed fitness metric.
  • One major challenge in coevolution is disengagement, where individuals stop evolving effectively, along with other issues like cycling and over-focusing.
  • The proposed solution involves selecting for individuals with lower "virulence," similar to host-parasite dynamics, which can paradoxically enhance the effectiveness of coevolutionary processes.
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The bone marrow (BM) in myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) undergoes pathobiological changes that mimic an inflammatory process, and hence, an infectious etiology was suspected in these disorders. In the present report, we examined the bone marrow mononuclear cells (BMMNC) of 19 MDS patients and seven normal donors for the expression of one latency-related (Latency membrane protein 1 (LMP-1) and immediate early protein (IEP)) and one activation-related (BZLF and DNA-Pol) m-RNA each for two herpes viruses, Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and cytomegalovirus (CMV), respectively. Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction was used for this purpose.

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Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) have previously been reported to show competitively high rates of apoptosis and proliferation in the bone marrow (BM). Using a double-labelling technique in the present study, we demonstrated that a significantly high number of S-phase cells were simultaneously apoptotic (signal antonymy; SA) in MDS (mean +/- s.e.

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Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are a group of hematopoietic disorders characterized by the concomitant presence of peripheral cytopenias and normocellular to hypercellular BM. This paradox has been proposed to be due to the presence of excessive proliferation matched by excessive intramedullary apoptosis of hematopoietic cells. When cultured in vitro MDS BM mononuclear cells (BMMC) undergo apoptosis within 4 h.

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