Taiwan: Losing representation

Losing Face

When person A takes an action that can be interpreted as “making an offer” to person B and B “rejects the offer,” then A may “lose face.” This loss of face (LoF) and consequent disutility will occur only if these actions are common knowledge to A and B. While under some circumstances this LoF can be rationalized by the consequences for future reputation, we claim it also enters directly into th...

Losing God.

Shortly before his death in 1995, Kenneth B. Schwartz, a cancer patient at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), founded the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center. The Schwartz Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and advancing compassionate health care delivery, which provides hope to the patient, support to caregivers, and sustenance to the healing process. The center sponsors the...

Losing Phase

In this issue of Neuron, Remme and colleagues examine the biophysics of synchronization between oscillating dendrites and soma. Their findings suggest that oscillators will quickly phase-lock when weakly coupled. These findings are at odds with assumptions of an influential model of grid cell response generation and have implications for grid cell response mechanisms.

Female Representation in the Academic Oncology Physician Workforce: Radiation Oncology Losing Ground to Hematology Oncology.

PURPOSE Our purpose was to assess comparative female representation trends for trainees and full-time faculty in the academic radiation oncology and hematology oncology workforce of the United States over 3 decades. METHODS AND MATERIALS Simple linear regression models with year as the independent variable were used to determine changes in female percentage representation per year and associa...

Congenital chloride losing diarrhoea.