Regarding our article on the association of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) with increased Alzheimer’s disease risk, Bowen et al, Froehner and Wirth, Leow et al, and Brady et al highlight a number of significant considerations that will prove important in the design of future studies that investigate the association of ADT and Alzheimer’s disease. We agree with Bowen et al and Leow et al tha...

Lyme disease is the most prevalent vector-borne disease in north temperate areas worldwide, with the majority of cases reported in the northeastern United States. The transmission cycle involves ticks, deer, small mammalian hosts such as mice, and numerous other species. Levi et al. (2012) suggested that Canis latrans (Coyote) abundance and Vulpes vulpes (Red Fox) scarcity are strong predictors...

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In insects and many other organisms, males can provide considerable nutrients to females via ejaculates, spermatophores or nuptial gifts (Thornhill 1976; Thornhill & Alcock 1983; Gwynne 1997). These nutritive contributions can impact an animal’s life-history and reproductive strategies (Trivers 1972; Dewsbury 1982) by influencing female fecundity, offspring size or quality, female mating behavi...

In this paper, the Hyper - Zagreb index of the Cartesian product, composition and corona product of graphs are computed. These corrects some errors in G. H. Shirdel et al.[11].

‎The excessive index of a bridgeless cubic graph $G$ is the least integer $k$‎, ‎such that $G$ can be covered by $k$ perfect matchings‎. ‎An equivalent form of Fulkerson conjecture (due to Berge) is that every bridgeless‎ ‎cubic graph has excessive index at most five‎. ‎Clearly‎, ‎Petersen graph is a cyclically 4-edge-connected snark with excessive index at least 5‎, ‎so Fouquet and Vanherpe as...

where SOC is the surface organic content; R, G, and B are image intensity values in the red, blue and green Past research has attempted to relate surface characteristics of soils bands, respectively; and a, b, c and d are curve-fit paramto reflectance from remotely sensed images to provide a means for quantifying spatial heterogeneity. Existing procedures have proven eters. The Chen et al. (200...

Scyphomedusae undergo a predictable ontogenetic transition from a conserved, universal larval form to a diverse array of adult morphologies. This transition entails a change in bell morphology from a highly discontinuous ephyral form, with deep clefts separating eight discrete lappets, to a continuous solid umbrella-like adult form. We used a combination of kinematic, modeling, and flow visuali...