BACKGROUND Improved therapeutics aimed at ameliorating the devastating effects of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), are pertinent to help attenuate their growing prevalence worldwide. One promising avenue for such therapeutics lies in botanical medicines that have been efficaciously employed in the likes of traditional medicine doctrines for millennium. Integral to t...

Empirical studies of various K-12 performance measures speak to the potential for improving the performance of the present system. They can address the following question. Given the fixed factors – the basic funding and governance processes that all fifty states share – what are the plausible maximum predicted values of the academic performance measures? For each of several econometric models, ...