New select committee seeks expertise

Additional Information - Select Committee on Mental Health

At present, there are more small, open-label trials than large, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies of atypical antipsychotics in the treatment of nonpsychotic psychiatric illnesses. Existing evidence indicates both the safety and the efficacy of relatively low doses of the dopaminergic/serotonergic atypical antipsychotics as adjunctive, or augmentation, therapy for patients with nonpsycho...

Before The House Select Committee on Homeland Security Subcommittee

Testimony California State Assembly Assembly Select Committee on Ports

I am the Paul E. Holden Professor of Management Science at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. Since September 11, 2001, I have used mathematics to analyze a variety of homeland security problems in bioterrorism (effective responses to terrorist attacks using smallpox, anthrax or botulinum toxin) and in border security (identifying ways to improve the biometric aspects of the ...

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 Select 
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 Homeopathy 


1) In this report I will focus on the evidence base of the action of homeopathic preparations, more specifically on the evidence coming from clinical trials, animal studies, in-vitro studies and physico-chemical experiments. (2) From this evidence several conclusions can be drawn: firstly, the evidence for homeopathy in clinical trials is sufficient to warrant further research; secondly, althou...

Lonely Arginine Seeks Friendly Environment

The recent perspectives on membrane protein insertion, protein–bilayer interactions, and amino acid side hydrophobicity (J. Gen. Physiol., 129:351–377) provide an excellent opportunity to return to the fundamental issue of the solvation of amino acids and their thermodynamic stability in different environments (Andersen, 2007). Though seemingly “solved” long ago, in recent years this issue has ...