The aim of the article is to determine whether so and /'( fulfil distinct discourse-building roles, in their predicateand proposition-anaphoric guise. Is the choice between them determined by the syntactic or semantic nature of their 'antecedent', or of the context in which the choice between them is to be made? Or do they in fact themselves determine their 'antecedent' (or at least superimpose...

On October 15, we met to listen to a presentation by Marques Griffin from ChevronTexaco. He gave an overview of the entire oil production process and gave an idea of what types of positions his company had available. We also had this semester’s officer auction, where bidders could hire an officer for an hour to do such as things as cleaning or yard work. Our volleyball tournament to be held on ...

Fifteen years have elapsed since the first human infections with H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus were detected in Hong Kong SAR, China [1, 2]. Many of these human infections were fatal and represented the first documented outbreak of severe disease due to HPAI viruses. The hallmark of these H5N1 viruses is their hemagglutinin genes inherited from A/goose/Guangdong/1996, a vi...

Motivated by the need to cope with floods of data, algorithm design is undergoing profound changes. Self-improvement, online property-preserving filtering, uncertainty, sublinearity and property testing are all parts of the story. I will discuss some of these exciting developments with an emphasis on its geometric aspects.

» . . .the findings reported by Schäfer et al are the first to link Nrf2 action to the modulation of the skin barrier.« reactive oxygen species (ROS) and leads to damage of cellular components including proteins, DNA and lipids. This damage is thought to be a key mechanism of aging as well as to be involved in the pathogenesis of so diverse diseases as diabetes, schizophrenia, arteriosclerosis ...