MSS. intended for publication and books, etc.,intended for review should be sent to The Editor of Science, Garrison-onHudson, N. Y. THE EFFECT OF THE WAR ON THE CHIEF FACTORS OF POPULATION CHANGE' THERE have recently appeared some figures2 regarding the "mouvement de la population" in France, Prussia and Bavaria which appear to deserve somewhat more careful analysis than they have received. The...

MSS. intended for publication and books, etc., intended for review should be sent to The Editor of Science, Garrison-onHudson, N. Y. THE PRACTICAL VALUE OF ANTHROPOLOGY TO OUR NATIONI TH1E last few years have taught American scienltists the lesson of service to our nation in time of crisis. It had seemed to be a condition of our American civilization that the vast bulk of our people spent their...

Research into Sign Language (SL) generation from English text at the University of East Anglia has involved SL grammar development to support SL synthesis and visual realisation by an avatar (virtual signer) (Kennaway, 2001). To that end SLs must be treated as genuine natural languages worthy of academic study in their own right. They are the native languages of the pre-lingually deaf whose fam...

Recovering populations of carnivores suffering Allee effects risk extinction because positive population growth requires a minimum number of cooperating individuals. Conservationists seldom consider these issues in planning for carnivore recovery because of data limitations, but ignoring Allee effects could lead to overly optimistic predictions for growth and underestimates of extinction risk. ...

Background: One method for promoting drugs in Japan has been utilizing wholesalers for promotion; however, the effectiveness of the sales promotion has been brought into question. Methods: A total of 74,552 responses were collected from an internet survey of 511 prescribing doctors in hospitals with less than 19 beds, which recalled the visits by wholesalers' sales representatives (MS) in 2014....

of this intermediate phase in the development of medical practice and philosophy. Of Butler's MSS. in the Library of Clare College, the six which are medical, and one other, are here transcribed and discussed. In these papers he appears as a physician not tied to any theoretical system, but with ideas pointing to the testing of remedies by trials and theory by experience, to a concern with the ...

Systemic autoimmune and autoinflammatory disease are associated with all types of diffuse kidney disease, that is, glomerulonephritis (including rapidly progressive), thrombotic microangiopathy, tubulointerstitial nephritis, AA-amyloidosis. However, the occurrence nephropathies differ significantly in patients various systemic immunemediated inflammatory diseases. For example, is one leading ma...