O ver 12 million people in the United States are surviving after being diagnosed with cancer; this number is expected to rise as baby boomers age and emerging targeted therapies create less toxicity (Ganz, 2009). Yet in a 2012 survey, only 55% of primary care providers (PCPs) were comfortable being the sole provider for cancer patients 2 years after the completion of their therapy 2012). Anothe...

The enormous contributions made by N. Scott Momaday (b. 1934) to Native Ameri-can culture and modern literature are on brilliant exhibit in this bio-bibliography from the University of Oklahoma's celebrated American Indian Literature and Critical Studies series. While the bio-bibliography format is a departure for this series, which is otherwise populated with novels, anthologies, and critical ...

Engineering product development in today's industry is becoming increasingly knowledge-intensive and collaborative. As the people, departments, and partners involved in product development tend to be geographically dispersed, there are increasing demands to globally cooperate during the design phase and outsource the manufacturing processes (Li and Qiu, 2006). Due to this geographical and insti...

Author's disclosures of potential conflicts of interest are found at the end of this article. L ung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States (Ameri-can Cancer Society [ACS], 2015). Non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is one of the most common types of the disease and accounts for 85% to 90% of lung cancer cases (ACS, 2015). Nonsquamous NSCLC accounts for approximately 45...

Evaluation of the Monthly Drought Code as a metric for fire weather in a region of complex terrain and uncertainties in future projections 1 INTRODUCTION Wildfire is an integral part of ecosystems. It is a major source of often positive disturbance in North Ameri-can forests which plays a critical role in determining ecosystem properties such as age structure, species abundance, and landscape p...

[W]hat is it but to laugh in the faces of our godly magistrates, and make a pride out of what they, worthy gentlemen, meant for a punishment?1 Hester Prynne lived in the eighteenth century in an early New England, Puritan colony and is a character of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic Ameri-can novel, The Scarlet Letter. 2 Darlene Johnson was born in 1964 and presently lives in California.' Except f...

Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book maybe reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except for brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. Justice. His research focuses on developing problem-oriented policing strategies to control violent crime hot spots, disrupt drug markets, and reduce firearms violence. He has served as a consul...

The knowledge firstly achieved by Carlos Chagas and his colleagues of the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, increased with all those acquired to date, allow us to outline the general scheme (modified from Dias & Coura 1997) of American trypanoso-miasis natural history (Figure). The knowledge of this natural history makes more comprehensible the clinical evolution of the disease, as it will be demonstrate...

Cancer has become the leading cause of death among Americans today. In 2006, over 500,000 Ameri-cans will die due to cancer [11]. Cancer is a highly complex disease to understand because it entails multiple cellular physiological systems such as cell signal-ing and apoptosis [10]. Thus, the most common cancer treatments are limited to chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery. Limitations in cancer ...

1 are to be congratulated on their research of the autosomal dominant Stargardt disease gene (STGD3). This study contains some extremely complex issues that require some clarification , as well as some basic and simple findings that should be emphasized. The basic issues center on gene-alogy, phenotype classification (lumping vs splitting), genotype and haplotype analysis, and statistics. Since...