EIGHT YEARS AND 2500 MANUSCRIPTS LATER…

Unresectable Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma: Eight Years Later

Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States, and is considered uniformly fatal when patients present with unresectable, advanced-stage disease at the time of diagnosis. Long-term survival of patients with advanced-stage pancreatic adenocarcinoma remains rare, despite advances in adjuvant chemoradiation protocols. A 73-year-old male presented to our emerge...

Rejuvenating immunity: “anti-aging drug today” eight years later

The 2014 year ended with celebration: Everolimus, a rapamycin analog, was shown to improve immunity in old humans, heralding "a turning point" in research and new era in human quest for immortality. Yet, this turning point was predicted a decade ago. But what will cause human death, when aging will be abolished?

Open problems in data warehousing: eight years later

Indoor radon entry: 30 years later

The paper discusses the results of 30 years of radon indoor entry research. While some progress has been made, many discrepancies between current theories and experimental data still remain. Misconceptions of radon transport mechanisms in homes are analyzed. The role of US Environmental Protection Agency in radon indoor entry research is examined and the agency's policies are criticize...

Data Communications: The First 2500 Years

It is of course well−known that it was always possible to communicate very important signals over long distances with comparatively primitive means, e.g. by sounding church bells, giving smoke or fire signals, or by waving flags. It is clear that all these methods are limited in their possible uses: they are all relatively crude broadcast methods, that cannot but give a small set of pre−defined...