by Raymond Chen S.B. E.E., M.I.T., 2006 Submitted to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology February, 2007 Copyright @2007 Raymond Chen. All rights reserved. The author hereby grants to MIT permissio...

Juxtacrine Activation of EGFR by Membrane-anchored HB-EGF Protects Epithelial Cells from Anoikis While Maintaining an Epithelial Phenotype Amar B. Singh, Keisuke Sugimoto and Raymond C. Harris Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee-37232 Running Title: HB-EGF prevents Anoikis in MDCK cells. Address Correspondence to: Raymond C. Harris, M.D., C-3121 Medical Center No...

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Raymond College was an unusual experiment in American higher education, one that unfortunately was not to endure. I learned of the school thanks to the interest that Robert Maynard Hutchins took in my education. He was then the head of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara. Hutchins admired the poetry of my mother, American poet Elizabeth Bartlett; it was she who ...

Background Flow diversion (FD)-a young technique using stents with highly increased surface coverage-was introduced to treat complex aneurysms without intra-aneurysmal material placement and has amended the spectrum of endovascular techniques such as stent-assisted coil occlusion considerably. However, ischemic complications, a common side effect in FD, occur more frequently compared with the c...

Ignazio Silone, one of the founders of the Italian Communist Party, has written strikingly about the role of moral commitment in radical theory. ‘The more Socialist theories claim to be “scientifi c”’, he suggests, ‘the more transitory they are; but Socialist values are permanent. The distinction between theories and values is not suffi ciently recognized, but it is fundamental. On a group of t...

In a recent article published in this journal (van Deemter, Gatt, van der Sluis, & Power, 2012), the authors criticize the Incremental Algorithm (a well-known algorithm for the generation of referring expressions due to Dale & Reiter, 1995, also in this journal) because of its strong reliance on a pre-determined, domain-dependent Preference Order. The authors argue that there are potentially ma...