BACKGROUND Induction of labour is the artificial initiation of labour in a pregnant woman after the age of fetal viability but without any objective evidence of active phase labour and with intact fetal membranes. The need for induction of labour may arise due to a problem in the mother, her fetus or both, and the procedure may be carried out at or before term. Obstetricians have long known tha...

The conclusions presented by Ares et al. [1] rely on not converged calculations and should be considered with caution. Zeng et al. investigated the temperature evolution of the length of bubbles close to the melting of short DNA sequences and concluded that the average size of ‘‘bubbles in the middle’’ reaches a plateau equal to the number of AT pairs before the two strands separate [2]. Ares e...

She currently co-teaches Advocacy for Parents and Children and Immigration Legal Services, two clinical seminars, and supervises students representing children, parents, and refugees. I am grateful to Deans Anthony Kronman and Guido Calabresi, and the Yale Law School, for generous support of my research. These chapters benefitted greatly from Ernie Galvan's excellent research, thoughtful feedba...

PTJ does not usually publish tributes, as there are so many physical therapists who have given so much to their profession and to rehabilitation science. We make an exception in this case because of the direct impact that Dr Beverly Bishop has had on PTJ's Editorial Board over the years. B orn in Corning, NY, Bishop earned a bachelor of science degree in mathematics from Syracuse University in ...