Editorial Forging Ahead 'All I know,' wrote Seamus Heaney, 'is a door into the dark 1 .' Me too. The world of radiology is figuratively and perhaps, on occasion, literally just that. Our game is the image, not the written word. Pretty pictures. Yet, now we increasingly find ourselves integral to the medical paradigm. This, clearly, is no reflection on us, but underpins the requirement, primacy,...

Pharmacogenetics, the study of the influence of genetic variation on drug response, and pharmacogenomics, the genome-wide and multifactorial extension of the term (the inclusive code PGx is used from here on), are central to the modern concept of personalized medicine. Although a " person-alized " approach has always been a hallmark of good medical practice, the new aspect is the extensive use ...

this study is related to an islamic project financing with a major focus on investigating the role of islamic finance in financing infrastructural development projects (toll roads, power plants, airports, and plants, as well as natural resource exploitation projects, such as hydroelectric dams, mining projects, oil and gas assets, and paper mills), especially in the context of pakistan. infrast...

Aerosol detection and monitoring from satellite platforms has made significant advances over the past decade. While several state-ofthe-art aerosol retrieval techniques provide aerosol properties at global scale, the more detailed spatial patterns remain unknown because most of the relevant satellite sensors operate at coarse resolution. A new aerosol retrieval algorithm for the Moderate Resolu...

What is Russia and where is it going? As we approach the ninth year after the Fall, we are faced with Russia’s unprecedented economic decline, year in year out. The story is grim whether measured by gross domestic product, capital investment, industrial and agricultural output, inflation, budget deficits, international debt, educational levels, or health and mortality. Just when economists anti...

Human and nonhuman primates are not mentally constrained to the present. They can remember the past and—at least to an extent—anticipate the future. Anticipation of the future ranges from long-term prospection such as planning for retirement to more short-term future-oriented cognition such as planning a route through a maze. Here we tested a great ape species (chimpanzees), an Old World monkey...