2001 Goldman Prize

Goldman Environmental Prize

-Seventeen patients with Hodgkin's disease who had a staging laparotomy (SL) within 2 months of the completion of initial chemotherapy are presented. Only 1 patient had a positive laparotomy. Postchemotherapy SL allows any residual active disease to be assessed, but the incidence of positive finding smay be small, and such findings are unlikely to alter subsequent management. SL following chemo...

[The 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine].

The 2011 Noble Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Bruce A. Beutler, Jules A. Hoffmann and Ralph M. Steinman for their groundbreaking research within immunology. Bruce A. Beutler and Jules A. Hoffmann were recognized for their discoveries on Toll and Toll-like receptor activation of innate immunity in fruit fly and mammals, respectively. Ralph M. Steinman received the award for the d...

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At the beginning of the twentieth century, the quantum nature of thermal electromagnetic radiation was a subject of intense interest. This was sparked by Max Planck’s discovery that the spectral distribution of light emerging from a thermal body could be explained only if the radiators emitting the energy occurred in discrete energy states. This induced Albert Einstein to conclude in 1905 that ...

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Using a model of repeated trade between a long-lived, informed, price-discriminating market maker and risk averse traders with endogenous hedging demands, I first show that traders are weakly better off trading with an informed dealer, as they may learn something about an asset’s value in the process of transacting. Second, while longterm incentives can induce an informed market maker to honest...