A 66-year-old Caucasian female was referred for specialist follow-up of her treatment-refractory type 2 diabetes. The diagnosis was made based on two consecutive HbA1c results .6.5% (48 mmol/mol) in accordance with the Canadian Diabetes Association and the American Diabetes Association guidelines (1,2). Fasting glucose was normal and hyperglycemic symptoms were absent at diagnosis. The patient’...

IntroductIon The traditional way of measuring learning as a result has been through the so-called learning and experience curves. The learning curves, developed within the production framework (Levitt & March, 1988), relate the manufacturing cost of a product to the accumulated experience in its production. This establishes that its cost decreases as the number of units made increases. At first...

The articles in this special issue demonstrate the extraordinary breadth of Wayne Fenton’s career. His work touched the lives of the patients he was treating, their families, and the larger community of researchers. Fenton combined vision with leadership to jump-start the field on a uniquely broad collaboration for therapeutic discovery. Although his tenure at National Institute of Mental Healt...

(Figure 1) is Professor of Urology and Chief of Andrology (male infertility and sexual dysfunction) at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans. His practice specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of sexual dysfunction, including Peyronie's disease, surgical and vascular reconstruction, prosthetic surgery, male infertility (both surgical and medical therapies), benign prostatic h...

Mark van Kleunen,l * Wayne Dawson,1 Daniel Schlaepfer,1.2 Jonathan M. Jeschke3.4 and Markus Fischer 1 11nstitute of Plant Sciences and Oeschger Centre, University of Bern, Altenbergrain 21, CH-3006