Who came back from America?

Challenges and lived experiences of patients who suffer from chronic back pain: a phenomenological study

Introduction: Chronic low back pain is a complex disorder with wide-ranging adverse consequences that can impact on people’s lifestyles. It has been suggested that further research is needed to develop a better understandin[1]g of its impact  and helped reaserchers to develop and adapt multicomponent interventions that will address patients needs. Thus,The purpose of this study was to examine ...

Alcoholic ketoacidosis as a cause of death, who came first?

I read with interest the article ‘The Postmortem Diagnosis of Alcoholic Ketoacidosis’ by Palmiere and Augsburger (2014). However for the sake of truth I must protest against the statement on page 272: ‘The first report in the forensic field suggesting that ketoacidosis could be partially responsible for unexplained deaths in alcoholics dates back to 1993 and concerns a study performed by L.N. D...

Coregulators: from whence came these "master genes".

It is now over a decade since the first nuclear receptor coactivator, SRC-1, was cloned and discovered to be a new type of transcription factor that does not bind DNA, but rather, binds directly or indirectly to nuclear receptors (NRs) to mediate their transcriptional potency. The NR coactivators belong to a class of molecules now termed ‘coregulators’. Employing an ‘operational’ definition, we...

Africans came before Columbus: Skeletal Evidence of African Olmecs in Ancient America

STATISTICAL PARSING FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION, or HOW I CAME BACK FROM A WORKSHOP WITH SOMETHING NEW TO WORK ON

All of this became clearer to me after a recent workshop at the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications at the University of Minnesota. The conference was intended to bring together three groups of people who have overlapping interests but seldom attend the same standard academic conferences. I am a member of the “computational linguistics” clan. As a group we are interested in applying ...