Vampires in popular culture differ from vampires Serbian traditional not only that they feed on human blood, but also the implications of otherness represent. While vampire is an example ontological – a revenant, non-human as opposed to human, sociocultural otherness, being member same community those against whom its misdeeds are directed way derives otherness. Its nature clearly designated es...

For the past a decade, John Hughes of Chalmers University and Quviq has pioneered property-based testing in debugging industrial software. Three undergraduate courses at the University of Oklahoma have paralleled this work, but on the pedagogical side and with the additional goal of verification of properties by mathematical proof, using both paper-and-pencil methods and mechanized logic. An es...

When you have a doctor, a patient, and a drug, there is much room for misunderstanding. The need to improve the quality of health care, prevent errors, translate good science into practice, and make patients and consumers partners in care has never been more pressing. Studies suggest that, at any given time, about a quarter of outpatients are subject to medication errors 2 and, on average, a pa...

time. Modern film and contemporary cinema are doubtlessly permeated with Freud's discontented daughters; Bronfen would have strengthened her case by explaining why Hitchcock and Cronenberg are more performatively hysterical than his. Even so, "performing hysteria" has not often been the subject of interpretation so astute as found here, this despite medicine's awareness that the hysteric "perfo...

human shape. But upon the middle of the body a fire of coals was smouldering; the flesh had been burnt through. The man was dead, but the smoke of his torment mounted still, a black vapour." In detective fiction, W H Auden said, the corpse must shock "not only because it is a corpse, but also because, even for a corpse, it is shockingly out of place, as when a dog makes a mess on a drawing-room...

Acknowledgements I would like to thank all the people who have supported me in performing this research in any way. In particular, my thanks go to my direct supervisor Ronan van der Zee and my supervisors at SiTel Semiconductor, Wim Kruiskamp and Rene Beumer for their invaluable support and input during the entire cause of this work. I would also like to thank Bram Nauta and Rein Post for keepi...

MacDonald MJ, Longacre MJ, Stoker SW, Brown LJ, Hasan NM, Kendrick MA. Acetoacetate and -hydroxybutyrate in combination with other metabolites release insulin from INS-1 cells and provide clues about pathways in insulin secretion. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 294: C442–C450, 2008. First published December 26, 2007; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00368.2007.—Mitochondrial anaplerosis is important for insulin ...