Dr Riley Fernando

Tribute to Dr Luis Fernando Bicudo Pereira Costa Rosa (GG)

Adamson Muula The article by Skene [1] has touched on an important topic in as far as global health research is concerned. Skene’s barometer is certainly a critical contribution to the discourse in research ethics that could be used in both extra-territorial and intra-territorial research. There are, however, several areas where I feel a different opinion would enrich the discussion. My fi rst ...

Dylan Riley

The essays in The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences contribute to a historical and comparative sociology of social science by systematically comparing the rises, falls, and absences of ‘‘methodological positivism’’ across the human sciences. Although all of the essays are of extremely high quality, three contributions develop the argument most fully: George Steinmetz’s introduction and W...

Fernando Martel García: Replication Proposal, Fernando Martel García, Ph.D., P0022014v01D

The Riley-Day syndrome

Familial dysautonomia (Riley et al., 1949) is an autosomal recessive disease affecting Jews of Eastern European ancestry (Brunt and McKusick, 1970). As the name implies the autonomic nervous system is defective, and this is seen clinically as defective control of temperature, blood pressure, and swallowing, by skin blotching, excessive sweating, lack of tearing, and bowel disturbance. Abnormali...

Fernando Patolsky and

Central to detection is the signal transduction associated with selective recognition of a biological or chemical species of interest. Nanostructures, such as nanowires1-7 and nanocrystals8-12, offer new and sometimes unique opportunities in this rich and interdisciplinary area of science and technology. The diameters of these nanostructures are comparable to the sizes of biological and chemica...