Maternal Thyroid and Glucocorticoid Hormone Interactions in Larval Fish Development, and Their Applications in Aquaculture Christopher L. Brown, Elisabeth Criscuolo Urbinati, Weimin Zhang, Shannon B. Brown & Michelle McComb-Kobza a Aquaculture and Enhancement Division, NOAA, NEFSC, Milford, Connecticut, USA b Centro de Aquicultura, Universidade Estadual Paulista (CAUNESP), Jaboticabal, Sao Paul...

*Department of Internal Medicine and Simmons, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA; Department of Pulmonary Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun, Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China; Department of Translational Molecular Pathology, Head & Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD, Anderson Cancer Center, Hou...

Kuhn’s famous thesis that there is ‘no unique algorithm’ for choosing between rival scientific theories is analysed using the machinery of social choice theory. It is shown that the problem of theory choice as posed by Kuhn is formally identical to a standard social choice problem. This suggests that analogues of well-known results from the social choice literature, such as Arrow’s impossibilit...

The use of computational steering for smog prediction is described. This application is representative for many underlying issues found in steering high performance applications: high computing times, large data sets, and many diierent input parameters. After a short description of the smog prediction model, its visualization and steering are described. The amount of computation needed to solve...

Background Long-term antiepileptic drug (AED) therapy is considered a risk factor of atherosclerosis. Furthermore, the duration of therapy contributes to acceleration of large-vessel atherosclerosis. Therefore, in this study, we tested the hypothesis that long-term AED therapy plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis of microangiopathy in patients with epilepsy. Methods We recruited 120 patie...

In this research, we seek to advance the understanding of heterogeneity in entrant survival rates. We suggest that the innovative environment at the time of entry can explain the variation in likelihood of survival for entrants. We conceptualize innovative environment in terms of two dimensions: the technological regime operating in a specific industry at the time of entry, and the technology i...

The Sino-French 2012 Conference in Thoracic Oncology, held November 17-18, 2012, was hosted by the Department of Thoracic Surgery at Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center and organized in collaboration with two prestigious French hospitals: Institute Gustave Roussy and Marie Lannelongue Hospital. The conference was established by leading experts from China and France to serve as an international...

1 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C. 2 Department of Physics and Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C. 3 Center for Condensed Matter Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. 4 Material Science Center, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Tai...

This chapter explores and offers a critique of the ways that foreign aid projects engage with the problem of violence against women in Papua New Guinea. Inspired by the work of Amartya Sen and Stephen Lewis, writers who bravely defend humanist ideals and enable the exposure of much of the empty rhetoric about diversity and equality as public relations talk, I argue that aid projects directed at...

Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma (NPC) patients' end-of-treatment survival status has drawn more attention in recent years. Telephone follow-up, as a most operative approach among all the clinical follow-ups, is an effective means to extend medical service to patients' home and is thus widely used in clinical practice. This study aimed to analyze the post-radiotherapy NPC patients' phone response rate ...