TRC: Mission Accomplished

Mission accomplished.

Recent suggestions by policy makers, economists, and competitors that Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae posed increasing risks due to size, structure, and behavior have led many to question whether the government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) had fulfilled their mission and outlived their usefulness. While appealing to contemplate more competition in the secondary mortgage market, there is, in fact, no...

Combination therapy for malaria: mission accomplished?

U.S. State education agencies’ use of Twitter: Mission accomplished?

This study examined how Twitter was used by all U.S. state education agencies (SEAs) for public engagement in education. Drawing on the ecological model of communication, this study analyzed the latest 71,913 tweets from 40 SEAs that had official Twitter accounts. The results of correlation analysis indicate no significant relationship between the SEAs’ presence on Twitter and the SEAs’ targete...

Ex vivo expansion of hematopoietic stem cells: mission accomplished?

A small number of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) with self-renewal and multi-lineage repopulation capacity maintain hematopoiesis during the lifetime of an individual. Moreover, HSCs and their potential exist in excess as one individual can share its HSCs with another leading to creation of a genetically identical hematopoietic system. For over half a century this property of HSCs has been uti...

Consistent declining trends in stroke mortality in Brazil: mission accomplished?

Stroke mortality rates are declining in Brazil, but diferences among regions need to be better investigated. The age-adjusted stroke mortality trends among adults (30-69 years-old) from Brazilian regions were studied between 1996 and 2011. Method Data were analyzed after: 1) reallocation of deaths with non-registered sex or age; 2) redistribution of garbage codes and 3) underreporting correctio...