Disorders of Sex Development: Can You Be Sure This Baby Is A Boy or Girl? We Must See Beyond The Diagnosis

Are you sure this is Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia?

Waldenström macroglobulinemia (WM) is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder characterized by the presence of lymphoplasmacytic cells in the BM and IgM monoclonal protein in the serum. The origin of the malignant clone is thought to be a B cell arrested after somatic hypermutation in the germinal center and before terminal differentiation to plasma cells. In this review, recent advances in the gen...

You Must Remember This

With great interest, I have been observing the developments in continuous lifelong capture, which has been gaining momentum over the last few years. By lifelong capture, I refer to someone digitally logging every moment and element of their lives, a usually permanent recording of an activity by a participant in the activity. This process often results in the unanticipated capture of valuable mo...

What You Feel Must Be What You See: Adding Tactile Feedback to the Trackpoint

The present study makes two contributions to the literature on tactile feedback. First, it investigates the effect of tactile feedback in isometric rate control devices. The use of tactile feedback in this type of device has not been systematically investigated. An isometric joystick, such as the IBM TrackpointTM in-keyboard pointing device does not perceptibly move and is operated by force. Ca...

Why Can We See a Local Spread of Chikungunya Virus (CHIKV) Infection?

Your Conscience You Must Keep, or it Must be Kept for You

Parents in several cultures ’discipline’ their daughters to inculcate the supposedly feminine virtues. The measures taken by parents range from the benign to the brutal across societies. The paper formalizes the idea that this cross-cultural process can be understood as an equilibrium outcome of a signaling game between parents of girls and prospective suitors. We identify the conditions that m...