A waxing and waning skin rash

Liver size: Waning by day, Waxing by Night.

Hans Reinke * and Gad Asher * 1 University of Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty, Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Diagnostics, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany. 2 IUF-Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany. 3 Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 7610001, Israel. * Correspondence to: [email protected]...

The waxing and waning of a field: reflections on information studies education (Invited paper)

In this short paper, avowedly personal, partial and pointillist in nature, I (i) sketch the early days of (mainly Anglo-American) information studies and the field’s gradual institutionalization, (ii) describe its maturation, as both an academic discipline and a domain of professional practice, and (iii) speculate on its future in the light of oftexpressed predictions of its imminent demise as ...

The brain dynamics of intellectual development: waxing and waning white and gray matter.

Distributed brain areas support intellectual abilities in adults. How structural maturation of these areas in childhood enables development of intelligence is not established. Neuroimaging can be used to monitor brain development, but studies to date have typically considered single imaging modalities. To explore the impact of structural brain maturation on the development of intelligence, we u...

Neural Correlates of the Time Course of the Waxing and Waning of Attention

When we are doing a task, such as driving our car, we often find ourselves slipping between intense task-engagement – e.g., we see an 18 wheel tractor trailer bearing down on us in our rear view mirror; and mind wandering – e.g., we are thinking about what is for dinner when we arrive home. This is often characterized as the waxing and waning of attention, and it has obvious implications for ta...

Skin rash in novel H7N9 influenza infection: a concern