Fishing activities by humans can affect seabirds directly, e.g. drowning in nets, drowning while taking longline baits and use of birds as bait or food, or indirectly, e.g. through effects on prey species such as competition between humans and birds for food. This may result in changes in seabird reproductive performance and population sizes (Duffy & Schneider 1994). Longline fisheries are a th...

Treatment options for ductal adenocarcinoma of the pancreas are limited by early lymphatic spread, but the lymphatic vessels in pancreatic carcinoma have not been studied to date. Here, we present a histomorphological analysis of lymphatic vessels in pancreatic cancer resection specimens. Both intratumoral and peritumoral tissue were devoid of active lymphangiogenesis. Intratumoral lymphatics w...

B arely ten years from now, the leading edge of the baby boom generation will turn 65, ushering in a sustained aging of the U.S. population. Many are concerned that through the first half of the 21st century, the federal government will stagger under the weight of these elderly baby boomers as they receive the medical, retirement, and disability benefits promised them. The number of people over...

Over the past thirty years, a plethora of publications have argued in favor of a specific psychoanalytic approach to some dimension or convention of cinematic horror. Included among these are articles and books by such influential scholars as Robin Wood, Carol Clover, Stephen Neale, Linda Williams, Barbara Creed, even Noël Carroll in an earlier incarnation. These efforts have typically taken th...