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The 1983 Nobel Prizes. Part 1. Physics and Chemistry Awards go to Chandrasekhar, Fowler and Taube

We have examined each group of annual Nobel Prize winners since 1979. Beginning with the 1982 awards, I we included data from the research fronts we identify each year for Science Citation Index” (SCP’ ). Briefly, a research front is a group of current papers that cite a cluster of “core” papers identified by co-citation clustering. These procedures have been described previously.2 By systemati...

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Why is the mirror neuron system so controversial? About a dozen papers have reported direct evidence for mirror neuron activity in monkeys and birds. Approximately 100 times as many papers refer to mirror neurons without directly recording their activity, often implying a link between mirror neurons and higher cognitive functions. While the existence of mirror neurons in animals is beyond doubt...

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McNair Scholars

Case report: when two and ½ men go camping…

BACKGROUND In patients, rapid identification of bacterial species may help to guide treatment at early stages. New protocols for the identification directly from positive blood culture flasks significantly helped in the presented case report. CASE PRESENTATION Two patients (a father and son) presented with diarrhea, malaise, and fever of 3 to 4 days duration. Blood cultures from both patients...