Phagocytes come back even stronger

They Always Come Back

As a result of personal experience on the staffs of Holloway Prison and of the Aylesbury Borstal Institution, the writer of this book can speak with some authority on the methods of treating women prisoners and delinquent girls as she found them to exist; from the knowledge gained by training as a Psychiatric Social Worker she has formed very definite convictions as to the much better methods w...

Empirical support for cardiovascular health: the case gets even stronger.

Recently, the American Heart Association (AHA) adopted a new and ambitious strategic goal: “by 2020, to improve the cardiovascular health of all Americans by 20% while reducing deaths from cardiovascular disease by 20%.”1 In the process, it defined a new concept, cardiovascular health, which comprises 7 components: 4 ideal health behaviors (nonsmoking, body mass index 25 kg/m, physical activity...

Will ye no come back again?

Get out! And don't come back!

sing the immune system to attack cancers is a good idea, but it may only work if Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are activated to break tolerance, say Yiping Yang (Duke University, Durham, NC), Drew Pardoll (Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD), and colleagues. The favored method for delivering cancer immunotherapy has been dendritic cells: they are the central antigen-presenting cells for generating T cel...

Come Back Function Point Analysis (modernised) – All Is Forgiven!

Function Point Analysis was invented by Allan Albrecht of IBM as a means of sizing business application software independently of the technology used for its development. Albrecht’s method was heavily promoted in its early years and has become the most widely used such method. However, the underlying model which Albrecht used for his sizing method, which was valid in the mid 70’s when it was fi...