We survey recent papers on the problem of backward dynamics in economics, providing along the way a glimpse at the economics perspective, a discussion of the economic models and mathematical tools involved, and a list of applicable literature in both mathematics and economics. Lı́mites inversos, Economı́a y Dinámica Regresiva Resumen. Examinamos artı́culos recientes sobre el problema de la dinámic...

Muhammad Syahrur’s point of view about hadith and sunnah was very different from preacher expert. Syahrur declared that Prophet Muhammad’s life as a prophet (messenger) the result his interaction with certain events in situation when he alive. positioned history product which happened did not accommodate law legitimation. Further, mentioned some rejected practices, although it identified shahih...

Comments on the article by M. E. Kite et al (see record 2001-10045-002), which summarized the findings and recommendations of the Task Force on the Status of Women in Academe. The present authors contend that while Kite et al documented the differences in the activities of men and women in academia, it is not clear that "inequalities persist." Kite et al interpreted the observed differences in ...

Does Gender Matter? I read with interest the report by Bartlett et al describing a linear relationship between millimeter carotid stenosis, as measured on CT angiography, and derived percent stenosis. According to the “Materials and Methods” section, the authors did not evaluate their patient population on the basis of sex. Tartaglino et al, however, reported that men and women differ in the av...

This paper begins a series studying D-modules on the Feigin-Frenkel semi-infinite flag variety from the perspective of the Beilinson-Drinfeld factorization (or chiral) theory. Here we calculate Whittaker-twisted cohomology groups of Zastava spaces, which are certain finite-dimensional subvarieties of the affine Grassmannian. We show that such cohomology groups realize the nilradical of a Borel ...

This editorial refers to ‘‘Low physical activity as a predictor for total and cardiovascular disease mortality in middle-aged men and women in Finland’’ by N.C. Barengo et al. on page 2204 and ‘‘Joint effects of physical activity, body mass index, waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio with the risk of cardiovascular disease among middle-aged Finnish men and women’’ by G. Hu et al. on page ...

Cigarette smoking is a major public health danger. Women and men smoke for different reasons and cessation treatments, such as the nicotine patch, are preferentially beneficial to men. The biological substrates of these sex differences are unknown. Earlier PET studies reported conflicting findings but were each hampered by experimental and/or analytical limitations. Our new image analysis techn...

The papers recently published in Thorax by Tattersfield et al 1 and Walsh et al 2 offer important information about the possible adverse affects of corticosteroids on bone mineral density (BMD). Tattersfield and her colleagues reported no change in BMD with inhaled corticosteroids for mild asthma, while Walsh et al found a dose related increase in the incidence of fractures in those taking oral...

More than 1,112,000 patients worldwide were estimated to be diagnosed with prostate cancer (PC) in 2012, resulting in more than 307,000 deaths (Ferlay et al., 2013). In Japan, PC is the fourth, most commonly diagnosed cancer in men, with an estimated incidence of 51,534 cases (11.8% among 437,787 cancer patients of all primary sites) in 2008, and accounts for about 9,800 deaths annually in the ...

Infected Men Who Have Sex with Men C. Maya Tong, BSc; Jose Pablo Heudebert, BS; Ashutosh Tamhane, MD, MSPH; Edward Hook III, MD; Nicholas Van Wagoner, MD, PhD; Jodie Dionne-Odom, MD; James Raper, DSN, CRNP, JD, FAANP; Greer A. Burkholder, MD; Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL; Bios...