The MSC awards ceremony and shuttles preceeding the Mars Office, the Flight Operations, held on the 16th of this month landing. Engineering and Development, served to recall past accomphshAwards were presented to Medical Research and Operations, meats, to contemplate the future, MSC, contractor, and university Flight Crew Operations, Science and to announce and present personnel who had made ma...

Generally the generation units in the traditional structure of the electricity industry try to minimize their costs. However, in a deregulated environment, generation units are looking to maximize their profits in a competitive power market. Optimum generation planning in such structure is urgent. This paper presents a new method of solving economic dispatch in the competitive electricity marke...

1995; for a recent review of many visual areas, see Too-tell et al., 1996). Traditional studies also helped to localize cortical areas that support other senses, motor tasks, and a wide variety of cognitive abilities (reviewed by One problem with experiments on func-Recent advances in functional magnetic resonance im-tional anatomy is that most conditions activate many aging (fMRI) are leading ...

We can expect that a better understanding of the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) will eventually lead to improved treatments for this devastating disorder (’translational medicine’). And if lupus is not a single disease entity, then different treatment regimens might be appropriate in different patients (’personalized medicine’). As one approach to improving our understanding...

I OPEN MY DISCUSSION of the new institutional economics with a confession, an assertion, and a recommendation. The confession is that we are still very ignorant about institutions. The assertion is that the past quarter century has witnessed enormous progress in the study of institutions. The recommendation is that, awaiting a unified theory, we should be accepting of pluralism. Chief among the...

Nosocomial transmission of multiresistant bacteria is a growing healthcare issue. In addition, new pathogens and pathogenic mechanisms, associated with therapies based on the use of live microorganisms, can be of importance in the near future. The current issue of CKJ illustrates healthcare-associated infections that go beyond common bacteria. First, the therapeutic use of live BCG mycobacteria...

The introduction of omalizumab to the management of chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) has markedly improved the therapeutic possibilities for both, patients and physicians dealing with this disabling disease. But there is still a hard core of patients who do not tolerate or benefit from existing therapies and who require effective treatment. Novel approaches include the use of currently avail...

1Department of Biochemistry, College of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 02447, Republic of Korea 2Department of Pharmacology, College of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 02447, Republic of Korea 3Neuroregeneration and Stem Cell Programs, Institute for Cell Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA 4Department of Korean Rehabi...