EC reform inch by inch

Neurons inch along

Dormant tumors awaken hat happens during tumor remission? After chemotherapy, tumor cell numbers may be reduced, or surviving cells may enter an altered, dormant state. Evidence for dormancy now comes from Catherine Shachaf, Dean Felsher (Stanford University, Stanford, CA), and colleagues. In their mouse model, liver tumors can be forced into dormancy and then reawakened at will. As in previous...

Dracunculiasis eradication: the final inch.

This report summarizes the status of the Dracunculiasis Eradication Program as of early 2005. Nine of the 20 countries that were endemic for this disease when the program began have already interrupted transmission, Asia is free of Guinea worm, and five of the remaining disease-endemic countries reported less than 50 cases each in 2004. Ghana and Sudan each reported 45% of the 16,026 cases in 2...

When Every Square Inch Counts TM

Characterization of SuperCDMS 1-inch Ge Detectors

The newly commissioned SuperCDMS Soudan experiment aims to search for WIMP dark matter with a sensitivity to cross sections of 5 x lO^̂ ĉm^ and larger (90% CL upper limit). This goal is facilitated by a new set of germanium detectors, 2.5 times more massive than the ones used in the CDMS-II experiment, and with a different athermal phonon sensor layout that eliminates radial degeneracy in positi...

Formalizing Commonsense Topology: The INCH Calculus

Nicholas Mark Gotts Division of Arti cial Intelligence, School of Computer Studies University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK Telephone: +44-113-233-6806; Fax:+44-113-233-5468; Email:[email protected] Introduction: Topology for AI Work on formalizing aspects of commonsense knowledge has the potential to increase our understanding of human cognition. Moreover, autonomous arti cial agents will n...