The American Clinical Magnetoencephalography Society (ACMEGS) is a professional society of physicians and other professionals with doctoral degrees “involved in clinical use of magnetoencephalography (MEG), electroencephalography (EEG), magnetic resonance imaging, or computerized axial tomography” (ACMEGS, Inc, Bylaws, 2006). The ACMEGS is primarily focused on advancing clinical applications of...

Raman spectroscopy has emerged as a fast, non-invasive, analytical method for the detec‐ tion and quantification of adulterants in many fields (Wong et al., 2007; Weng et al., 2003; Muik et al., 2003; Micklander et al., 2002; Peica et al., 2005; Rubayiza et al., 2005; Ellis et al., 2005; Paradkar et al., 2001; Abalde-Cela et al., 2009; Mulvihill et al., 2008; Zhou et al., 2006). Although signal...

The potential for size-selective fishing to cause contemporary evolutionary changes in adaptive traits has attracted considerable interest in recent years (Jørgensen et al. 2007; Kuparinen and Merilä 2007). Fishing-induced selection has been identified as having the capacity to change various life-history traits as well as morphological, behavioral, and physiological traits (reviewed by Polican...

Many animals, especially arthropods, use substrateborne vibration signals in communication (Hill 2008, 2009). Substrate-borne vibrations have been demonstrated as an important mode of communication in bugs (Virant-Doberlet & Cokl 2004; Cocroft & Rodriguez 2005; Rodriguez et al. 2008), lacewings (Henry 1994; Henry et al. 2002), wolf spiders (Uetz & Roberts 2002; Hebets & Papaj 2005; Gibson & Uet...

Administering medicAtion is one of the most common interventions in health care, but the complexity of the medication process can lead to unintended outcomes (rozich et al 2003, mcBride-Henry and Foureur 2006, sheu et al 2008). in recent years the use of medicines has grown, and there has been an increase in new products available (ndosi and newell 2008). rapid advances in technology and medici...

Neural prostheses, which are also termed brain–machine and brain–computer interfaces, offer the potential to substantially increase the quality of life for people suffering from motor disorders, including paralysis and amputation. Such devices translate electrical neural activity from the brain into control signals for guiding paralyzed upper limbs, prosthetic arms, and computer cursors. Severa...

The authors regret having misquoted the article from Ko JH et al. (2008). (“Theta burst stimulation-induced inhibition of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex reveals hemispheric asymmetry in striatal dopamine release during a set-shifting task: a TMS-[(11)C]raclopride PET study”) in the present publication. This happened due to a misreading of the paper and led to a partial reversion of the findings...

This article is part of a Minifocus on the ESCRT machinery. For further reading, please see related articles: ‘No strings attached: the ESCRT machinery in viral budding and cytokinesis’ by Bethan McDonald and Juan Martin-Serrano (J. Cell Sci. 122, 2167-2177) and ‘How do ESCRT proteins control autophagy?’ by Tor Erik Rusten and Harald Stenmark (J. Cell Sci. 122, 2179-2183). The endosomal sorting...

background: wilms' tumor is an emberyonal tumor arising from remnants of immature renal tissue. her2/neu is an onco-protein which mediates cellular proliferation, differentiation and survival. methods: in the current study, we analyzed her2/neu expression in 40 wilms' tumors. the clinico-demographic data of 40 patients with wilms' tumor were retrieved. immunohistochemical staining for her2/neu ...

Elastic network models (ENMs) have over the last decade enjoyed considerable success in the study of macromolecular dynamics. These models have been used to predict the global dynamics of a variety of proteins and protein complexes, ranging in size from single enzymes to macromolecular machines (Keskin et al. 2002), ribosomes (Tama et al. 2003, Wang et al. 2004) and viral capsids (Tama & Brooks...