US okays Antarctic pact

This is NOT a Game: US Army, University of Southern California Ink Pact for Research Center

I am writing to correct a misrepresentation of my work that appeared in a paper published in the proceedings of the 1998 Symposium on Volume Visualization. In a paper by Craig Wittenbrink, Tom Malzbender, and Michael Goss, the authors point out that Figure 1 in my frequently cited 1988 paper calls for interpolating non-opacity-weighted voxel colors, which produces artifacts in volume-rendered i...

Photodynamic antimicrobial chemotherapy (PACT).

Whereas the photodynamic therapy (PDT) of cancer has recently shown rapid clinical acceptance, photodynamic antimicrobial chemotherapy (PACT)--which predates the related cancer regimen--is not widely appreciated. Like PDT, PACT utilizes photosensitizers and visible or ultraviolet light in order to give a phototoxic response, normally via oxidative damage. Currently, the major use of PACT is in ...

Teen girl pregnancy pact?

Few recent stories about teen pregnancy have been so compelling as the item that surfaced in June 2008 in Time magazine, and was then zoomed around the world’s media post haste. The location is Gloucester, Massachusetts – America’s oldest seaport. The venue is Gloucester High School. The protagonists are a 17-strong group of girls, aged 14–16 years, who over the past calendar year have become p...

Cellular suicide pact

Dendritic spines cut loose to mature D eveloping dendritic spines need to hold on tight to the extracellular matrix as they seek out partnering neurons. Once they fi nd partners, however, the spine tips must sever their matrix ties to reshape into post-synaptic receiving stations, according to Tian et al. (page 687). Dendritic spine growth and maturation coincides with the expression of a neuro...

CMA okays private health care for waiting patients.