An 81-year-old woman presented with light perception vision in her left eye and had pallid swelling of the left optic disk. Temporal artery biopsy was normal. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed enlargement and enhancement of the left orbital optic nerve. There were vitreous cells, but a vitrectomy specimen showed only a benign lymphocytic population. Her vision deteriorated to no light percept...

My laboratory is trying to make transgenic mosquitoes. We hope to find out if it is possible to decrease the transmission of infectious agents (such as those that cause malaria, which world-wide kills one person every 20 seconds) by altering the disease vector so that it is no longer a suitable host. There are some indications that this approach could be successful. Dengue-virus-resistant mosqu...

The underlying hypothesis of this paper is that the rigor needed to build Computational Design Creativity Systems will produce insights that will increase our understanding of creativity. The paper points to a variety of factors that will need to be studied and understood in detail in order to build such systems. It examines selected technical literature about creativity to determine what key c...

Once we accept that there is something called creativity we are led to wonder how are the creative people and what are the creative acts. This wonderment compels us to understand the underlying cognitive process in a creative act and the hardware requirements for this process to go on. We then arrive at a position for seeking an implementable model of and the paradoxicalness involved therein. T...

De-duplication Matlab's unique function was used for de-duplicating reviews – each row that appeared more than once was reduced to a single occurrence. This technique can produce some false positives in the case that the same word frequencies occurred in legitimately distinct reviews (since the order of the tokens is not considered), but the chances of this occurring was considered improbable e...

Numerous studies have attempted to determine the function of adult neurogenesis in the hippocampus using methods to deplete new neurons and examine changes in behaviors associated with this brain region. This approach has produced a set of findings that, although not entirely consistent, suggest new neurons are associated with improved learning and reduced anxiety. This paper attempts to synthe...

This paper is the first stage in a cross-disciplinary research project on leadership and creativity in the media industries and their inter-relationship. It reviews the treatment of these issues in three bodies of literature – media management research, ‘mainstream’ management research, and published accounts of two examples of creativity-focused leadership in the media: Greg Dyke at the BBC, a...