A peer-reviewed two-volume book of the memoirs was written by a person passionate about his work. Real, genuine speech is heard here, giving away both Moscovite, scientist, and personality with magnificent sarcastic flair. The V. S. Veselovskiy Problems Our Life are one most informative, noticeable interesting publications this kind in 21st century Russia, they should be included mandatory read...

Genetically heterogeneous (GH) mice and rats continue to be widely used in research even though the case for using isogenic strains has been argued repeatedly. The paper by Miller et al. in this issue appears to be the only one in the last 22 to attempt a scientific justification for the continued use of (a limited subset of) GH stocks. However, although they are to be commended for bravery, th...

T he debate about the role of coronary revascularization on top of optimal medical therapy for patients with obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) and stable symptoms remains vibrant. Despite significant progress in understanding risk factors for atherosclerosis and altering those risk factors at the level of populations, the " double whammy " of the aging of the population as a whole, coup...

Our first deductive system expresses relationships between classes of things. Each class is represented by a noun naming the class, or by an adjective that describes a property that distinguishes the members of the class from nonmembers. These nouns or adjectives denoting classes of things are called categorical terms, or simply terms. For example, the term animals refers to the class of things...