Remarkable progress has been made with respect to cardiac transplantation over the past 3 decades.1 Few dramas are as compelling as a successful heart transplant in a patient who otherwise would die of cardiogenic shock. Improved outcomes relate to our greater (but yet incomplete) insight into the pathophysiology of allograft rejection. Still, the transplanted heart is not normal, and it is sub...

African species of Oxyscelio (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae s.l.) are revised. A total of 14 species are recognized, 13 of which are described as new: Oxyscelio absentiae Burks, sp. n., Oxyscelio galeri Burks, sp. n., Oxyscelio gyri Burks, sp. n., Oxyscelio idoli Burks, sp. n., Oxyscelio intensionis Burks, sp. n., Oxyscelio io Burks, sp. n., Oxyscelio kylix Burks, sp. n., Oxyscelio lunae Burks, s...

OBJECTIVE This study seeks to examine the incidence of social phobia in the general population and to establish a number of risk indicators. METHOD Data were derived from the Netherlands Mental Health Survey and Incidence Study (NEMESIS) which is a population based prospective study (n=7076). A sample of adults aged 18-64 years (n=5618) were re-interviewed 1 year later using Composite Interna...

A cornerstone of primary stroke prevention is built on treating “hypertension” in asymptomatic subjects who are usually at low or medium vascular risk, dogma based on the results of numerous randomized, controlled trials and meta-analyses of them. Similarly, several trials have shown that blood pressure (BP) should be lowered in patients who have had a recent stroke.1–3 Note here the distinctio...

In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes voices concern over the squandering of the‎ prospects human prosperity. This paper argues that remedy he proposes ‎is political replication scripture’s idea creation; acknowledgment ‎of an originator, a first cause indisputable order. Hobbes’s nemesis, ‎Fool, is agent antithetical tohu and bohu (the disarray that‎ preceded creation), who misguidedly believes can work...

A major revision of the geological timescale was published in 2012. We re-examine our past finding of a 27 Myr periodicity in marine extinction rates by re-assigning dates to the extinction data used previously. We find that the spectral power at this period is somewhat increased, and persists at a narrow bandwidth, which supports our previous contention that the Nemesis hypothesis is untenable...

Spondylolysis is a common nemesis of the professional cricket fast bowler. This case study demonstrates a series of clinical presentations beginning with spondylolysis in the same professional fast bowler over a one year period. The initial presentation of the injury received chiropractic evaluation and successful management. The second presentation of the patient eight months later was an aggr...