A man truly dedicated

Takeshi Matsuura: A Truly Inspirational Friend and Membrane Scientist

A Truly Magic Solution

Beginning in 1988, the Merced County Human Services Agency in California realized it needed to find a solution to the rising costs of providing human services to a growing population and to the 35-percent turnover rate among its caseworkers. After selecting Andersen Consulting to provide assistance in solving its problems, the agency was helped with a little MAGIC (Merced automated global infor...

A Truly Emerging Intestinal Parasitosis

A 26-year-old soldier from Peru was shot in the right upper back of the abdomen while on routine patrol in a drug-traffic region in the Peruvian highlands. After temporizing exploratory laparotomy in a mobile army surgical hospital, he was flown to a referral center (Trauma-Shock Unit, Central Military Hospital, Lima, Peru) for open surgery. Surgical diagnosis was open abdominal trauma compromi...

A truly ecological epigenetics study.

Until a few years ago, epigenetics was a field of research that had nothing to do with ecology and that virtually no ecologist had ever heard of. This is now changing, as more and more ecologists learn about epigenetic processes and their potential ecological and evolutionary relevance, and a new research field of ecological epigenetics is beginning to take shape. One question that is particula...

Makemake: A truly exotic TNO!

Makemake is a truely exotic TNO: Its thermal spectral energy distribution is very different from all other objects in our sample of nearly 140 trans-Neptunian objects observed with Herschel as part of the key programme “TNOs are Cool! A Survey of the trans-Neptunian Region". We present the our results on (136472) Makemake from thermophysical model studies of all Spitzer and Herschel observation...