In the last issue, I presented a piece that called into question some of the techniques reported in two papers in high-profile journals that purported to provide statistical evidence for the linguistic status of some ancient symbol systems (Sproat 2010a). Not surprisingly the authors of those two papers took issue with a number of my claims, and have requested the opportunity to respond. The tw...

Thomson [4], et al. v. Thompson, et al. was a lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on 8 May 2001 as Civil Action Number 01-CV-0973. This lawsuit was filed in hopes of gaining injunctive relief against a moratorium on the federal funding of stem cell research. The plaintiffs in the case were seven prominent scientists who performed embryonic stem cell re...

Although significant progress has been made regarding the structure and function of titin, little data exist on the biosynthesis of this large protein in developing muscle. Using pulse-labeling with [35S]methionine and immunoprecipitation with an antititin mAb, we have examined the biosynthesis of titin in synchronized cultures of skeletal muscle cells derived from day 12 chicken embryos. We fi...

1. Harris DT, Schumacher MJ, Rychlik S et al. Collection, separation and cryopreservation of umbilical cord blood for use in transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplant 1994; 13:135-43. 2. Rubinstein P, Dobrila L, Rosenfield RE et al. Processing and cryopreservation of placental/umbilical cord blood for unrelated bone marrow reconstitution. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1995; 92:10119-22. 3. Read EJ, Kuni...

and title level. Of these, 179 were identified by either reviewer as being eligible for full-text review. After excluding duplicates and records that clearly failed to meet the study selection criteria (n 1⁄4 90), a total of 89 full-text articles were assessed for eligibility. Figure 1 shows the flow diagram of the literature search process and results. After careful review of all 89 full-text ...

Human beings have used plants for the treatment of diverse ailments for thousands of years (Sofowara, 1982; Hill, 1989). According to the World Health Organization, most populations still rely on traditional medicines for their psychological and physical health requirements (Rabe and Van Stoden, 2000), since they cannot afford the products of Western pharmaceutical industries together with thei...

The uniformity with which high streptococcal (group A) antihyaluronidase titer occurs in rheumatic fever (Quinn, 1950; Harris and Harris, 1949a, 1949b; Harris et al., 1949; Stoppelman, 1951; Friou and Wenner, 1947; and Sallman et al., 1950; 1951) and its reported occurrence in cases of rheumatoid arthritis (Quinn, 1950; Faber, 1953a, 1953b), in glomerulonephritis (Faber, 1953a, 1953b) and scarl...

The various permutations of the Maillard aminosugar "browning" reaction (Maillard, 1912) have attracted the attention of microbiologists only within recent years, although food technologists have long been concerned with this class of reactions (Kline, 1950). Although Lewis (1930) warned of the effects of such reactions in bacteriologic culture media, their potential significance in many types ...

In this paper, we propose an integrated Genetic Algorithm with Hill Climbing to solve the matrix bandwidth minimization problem, which is to reduce bandwidth by permuting rows and columns resulting in the nonzero elements residing in a band as close as possible to the diagonal. Many algorithms for this problem have been developed, including the wellknown CM and GPS algorithms. Recently, Marti e...