The debate over how much to push the limits of surgical resection for malignant gliomas is not a recent controversy. The cost-benefit analysis about increasing survival with more resection at the expense of function has existed for decades. In 1928, Walter Dandy at the Johns Hopkins Hospital performed hemispherectomies for patients with glioblastoma (GB) and found that these tumors still recurr...

Background & Objective: Brucellosis is one of the most prevalent bacterial zoonotic diseases which afflicts both humans and animals. Genetic factors play an important role in susceptibility to brucellosis. One of these factors is interferon-gamma (IFN-g), which is vital in the defense mechanism against infectious diseases such as brucellosis. The purpose of this study was to ev...

Enterococcus faecalis is an opportunistic pathogen that causes serious infections in humans and animals and is also an important bacterium for dairy and probiotic supplement production. Therefore, bacteriophages infecting E. faecalis may be useful for phage therapy against multidrug-resistant strains or may threaten industrial fermentation. We isolated a virulent Siphoviridae bacteriophage, BC-...

In the article by Ingeman et al, “Lifestyle Factors and Early Clinical Outcome in Patients With Acute Stroke: A Population-Based Study,” which published online ahead of print on January 16, 2017, and appeared in the March 2017 issue of the journal (Stroke. 2017;48:611–617. DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.116.015784), a correction is needed. On page 611, the corresponding author’s e-mail address is incor...

Acoustic cavitation is investigated experimentally and theoretically starting with a single bubble in an acoustic field. The single bubble is trapped in an acoustic resonator and observed by high-speed imaging and acoustic measurements following its transient dynamics to a possible steady state after generation by laser light. Numerical calculations are done to explore the regions of survival f...

Because loop-like constructs appear in programming languages so often, we need to take fixed points. In addition, because we are defining meaning functions inductively, most or all of the definitions for individual expression forms need to produce continuous functions. Therefore, we need to find an easy way to show that functions are continuous. We will define a restricted language so that all ...

Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences, Japan Women’s University, Tokyo 112–8681, Japan (R.K., Y.S., Y.Y., T.S.K.); Royal Institute of Technology, School of Biotechnology, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm SE–10691, Sweden (V.B.); Kyoto University, Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Gokasho, Uji, Kyoto 611–0011, Japan (R.K., T.K., T.H.); and Institute of Sustainability...

From the Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyotodaigaku-katsura, Saikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8530, Japan, the Institute of Advanced Energy, Kyoto University, Gokasyo, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan, the Department of Biomolecular Engineering, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan, and CREST, JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency), Gokasyo, Uji, Kyoto 611-00...