Nurturing Talented Rural Planners

Community Economics: a Simulation Model for Rural Development Planners

Rural areas and small towns are facing new challated to these impacts. With shifting populations, ecolenges as their economies grow and develop. The popnomic changes, and energy development, reliable ulation influx to nonmetropolitan areas has brought new impact models are increasingly useful. Many types of and increasing demands for community services. Premodels and methodologies have been dev...

Talented Imbeciles

The differential diagnosis of the type of feeblemindedness known as imbecility is by no means an artisan's job. No foot rule, scale, or point system has been devised or will ever be devised that will relieve the clinician of long, patient, and discriminating analysis in arriving at a diagnosis. An individual may be diagnosed or classified as an imbecile on the mental scale, on the intellectual ...

The highly talented child.

either before or during the period of immunosuppression does not necessarily confer protection. This is illustrated by two of our patients. Case reports Case 1. A boy, aged 3 years 5 months, first presented with a history of a progressive petechial rash. Physical examination showed pallor, bruising, and hepatosplenomegaly. A bone marrow aspirate confirmed a diagnosis of acute lymphoblastic leuk...

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The talented interferon-gamma

IFN-γ is an extraordinarily pleotropic cytokine. It can not only heighten both the innate and adaptive immune response against pathogens and tumors, but also has the ability to maintain immune homeostasis. Since the effects of IFN-γ are cell and tissue specific, it is important to consider the recent advances in IFN-γ signaling in the context of different diseases. To this end, we review the in...