Did RSPO Overlook the Unwelcome Thoughts Amongst Growers and Millers?

Did earlier thoughts inspire Grothendieck ?

When I first met Alexander Grothendieck more than fifty years ago I was not only deeply impressed by his creativity, his knowledge and many other aspects of his mathematics, but I also wondered where all his amazing ideas and structures originated from. It seemed to me then as if new abstract theories just emerged in his mind, and then he started to ponder them and simply build them up in their...

Why Did Sugarcane Growers Suddenly Adopt Existing Technology?

I investigate the role of regulation and factor prices in the rapid, widespread adoption of mechanical harvesting technology by Brazilian sugarcane growers. I use workerand establishment-level data to test the effect of regulation using complementary regression discontinuity and difference-in-differences approaches. I find that regulation is, at best, a partial explanation, accounting for no mo...

Unwelcome complement.

For decades, the complement system has been recognized as an effector arm of the innate immunity system that contributes to the destruction of tumor cells. However, recent studies have challenged this paradigm by demonstrating that a complement component, the anaphylatoxin C5a, promotes the growth of malignant tumors in a mouse model of cervical carcinoma. The effect of C5a on tumor growth was ...

Don't overlook the complications of tonsillectomy.

A lthough the number of patients undergoing tonsillectomy has gradually declined since the 1970s, it remains one of the most common surgical procedures performed worldwide. The procedure, of course, is fairly routine—but not without risk. Mortality rates for the operation range from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 35,000, with morbidity rates ranging from 1.5% to 14%; mortality and morbidity after tonsille...

Screening programs overlook transgender people.