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Perfecting Kant's highest good

Perfecting peptide priming

Tumors can avoid immune destruction despite being invaded by tumor-specific CD8 ϩ T cells. On page 1257, Bronte et al. describe one way that prostate tumors subdue T cells— they make two enzymes that combine forces to cripple T cell signaling components. Tumors use a variety of tactics to avoid attack by cytotoxic CD8 ϩ T cells; one is to establish an inhospitable environment that inhibits T ce...

Perfecting the Ultra-violet of Holographic Descriptions of QCD

We investigate imposing a UV cutoff into a simple AdS/QCD model of the rho mesons. The cutoff corresponds to the scale at which QCD moves from perturbative to non-perturbative behaviour, above which the gravity dual will itself become strongly coupled. Simply imposing a cutoff significantly improves the fit to the masses of the tower of excited rho mesons. Formally one should match the coupling...

Reclaim the profession!

Norway has the preconditions for world-class health services. They should enjoy the confidence of all social strata, be organised by the state and provide maximum benefit in exchange for the resources that the community invests in them. Everybody agrees to these general goals. The disagreement pertains to the means. The Minister of Health prescribes a steady course; we believe that a steady cou...

Perspectives on the profession.

In his presidential address to the Southwestern Surgical Congress, he examines surgery as a profession from three different perspectives: his experience as a patient, a surgeon, and a photographer. He uses photography to illustrate the importance of perspective and illumination. He respectfully suggests that we should consciously choose to reframe the profession from a different perspective tha...