Dissecting China’s Rise: Controversies over the China Model

Markets Over Mao: The Rise of Private Business in China

China's economic growth in the recent decade continues its previous impressive record albeit at a slightly slower rate than double digit surpassing Japan in 2010 and becoming the second largest economy in the world. Is this a result of China's extensive use of industrial policies and state-led capitalism, as portrayed by American popular media and characterized by some Chinese scholars as "adva...

Dissecting the uncinate fasciculus: disorders, controversies and a hypothesis.

The uncinate fasciculus is a bidirectional, long-range white matter tract that connects lateral orbitofrontal cortex and Brodmann area 10 with the anterior temporal lobes. Although abnormalities in the uncinate fasciculus have been associated with several psychiatric disorders and previous studies suggest it plays a putative role in episodic memory, language and social emotional processing, its...

The American Cultural Identity: Philosophical Reflections on the Existing Controversies over its Nature

Understanding the Social Controversies over Agricultural Biotechnology

Introduction In sociology social problems are a subject of inquiry and teaching. That subject is a central aspect of any sociology curriculum at a higher education institution (Best, 2011). However, there is not a single definition of what constitutes a social problem. And, what is perceived as a social problem or not is highly subjective; that is, one person’s social problem can be another per...

Addressing controversies over Kaposi's sarcoma.

Kaposi’s sarcoma has emerged from being a rarity to being the most important neoplasm in many sub-Saharan countries. Most investigators involved in Kaposi’s sarcoma research now agree that the gammaherpesvirus human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8), also called Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV), is central in the pathogenesis of this disease (1,2). Molecular and seroepidemiologic studies (3,4)...