purpose: to evaluate the adverse effects of intravitreal injection of sterile chloramphenicol eye drops on corneal endothelial cells of donated corneas. methods: 100 donor corneas were enrolled in the study. one eye of each donor underwent intravitreal injection of sterile chloramphenicol eye drops following vitreous tap and the fellow eyes were served as controls. after corneo-scleral excision...

We offer an elementary proof of Pontryagin duality theorem for compact and discrete abelian groups. To this end we make use of an elementary proof of Peter-Weyl theorem due to Prodanov that makes no recourse to Haar integral. As a long series of applications of this approach we obtain proofs of Bohr von Neumann’s theorem on almost periodic functions, Comfort-Ross’ theorem on the description of ...

I respond to comments offered by Peter Harrison and Thupten Jinpa on my book Buddhism and Science: A Guide for the Perplexed (2008). I report briefly on the reception of the book thus far and provide a summary of its contents before responding individually to the essays of Harrison and Jinpa.

A s a child, Peter Friedl never envisioned becoming a scientist. But curiosity and an aptitude for careful observation eventually led him to medical school and then the laboratory , where his work and career are continually evolving. Friedl completed his MD at Bochum in Germany, then decided to indulge his burgeoning interest in immunology by joining the laboratory of Dr. Kurt Zänker at the Uni...

Synthesis and Photochemical Cyclization of a Novel EnyneCarbodiimide Michael Schmittel,* David Rodríguez 1 and Jens-Peter Steffen FB 8 OC1 (Chemie und Biologie), Universität Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein-Strasse, D-57068 Siegen, Germany. Tel. (+49)-271-4356, Fax (+49) 271-3270. E-mail: [email protected]. 1 Present address: Facultad de Química, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain...

Peter Balla is the Lecturer and Head of the New Testament Department of the Faculty of Theology of the Károli Gáspár Reformed University, Budapest, Hungary. He received his Master of Theology (1988) and Ph.D. (1994) from University of Edinburgh. His Habilitat ionsschrif t was accepted by the Lutheran Theological Universit y in Budapest in October 2001. Dr. Balla’s doctoral dissertation, Challen...

Debate concerning the social impact of obesity has been ongoing since at least the 1980s. Bioethicists, however, have been relatively silent. If obesity is addressed it tends to be in the context of resource allocation or clinical procedures such as bariatric surgery. However, prominent bioethicists Peter Singer and Dan Callahan have recently entered the obesity debate to argue that obesity is ...

As evidence-based mental health and the randomised controlled trial come to dominate the content of major psychiatric journals, the status and clinical utility of single case reports have been increasingly questioned. Arguably, owing to their subjective, anecdotal nature and unsuitability for rigorous scientific testing, this is particularly true of psychoanalytic case studies. Professor Peter ...

I study individuals who use frequentist statistical models to draw secure or robust inferences from i.i.d. data. The main contribution of the paper is a steady-state model in which distinct statistical models are consistent with empirical evidence, even as data increases without bound. Individuals may hold different beliefs and interpret their environment differently even though they know each ...