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Bone allografts: What they can offer and what they cannot.

Bone allografts can be used in any kind of surgery involving bone from minor defects to major bone loss after tumour resection. This review describes the various types of bone grafts and the current knowledge on bone allografts, from procurement and preparation to implantation. The surgical conditions for optimising the incorporation of bone are outlined, and surgeon expectations from a bone al...

Creativity and Aging: What We Can Make With What We Have Left

T hree of the four authors of this book are older than 60, and the fourth, Chandra Sripada, is no longer a spring chicken. We believe, in spite of our age, that our advocacy of prospection is quite a creative turn for psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience. It is natural that the four of us should be invested in the issue of aging and creativity and that our concluding chapter should tackle t...

Heavy sterile neutrinos - what they can be and what they can ’ t

We review current astrophysical bounds on MeV sterile neutrinos, and then we discuss why a sterile keV neutrino is a natural warm dark matter candidate.

What Do They Have in Common?

Type 1 and type 2 diabetes frequently co-occur in the same families, suggesting common genetic susceptibility. Such mixed family history is associated with an intermediate phenotype of diabetes: insulin resistance and cardiovascular complications in type 1 diabetic patients and lower BMI and less cardiovascular complications as well as lower C-peptide concentrations in type 2 diabetic patients....

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