Reply to More on CIO and Related Radicals

Reply to more on: the role of thrombin in gliomas.

We thank Dr Arbit for his interest in our article. We have demonstrated that argatroban reduces peritumoral brain edema, tumor mass and improves tumor-induced neurological deficits in a rat glioma model [1,2]. As Dr Arbit suggests, argatroban may also be useful to reduce the deep vein thrombosis that can occur in glioma patients [3]. Argatroban is a small molecule that binds to the active site ...

Once More on Relative Truth a Reply to Skillen

Oxygen Radicals and Related Species

As discussed in Chapter 1, around three billion years ago, life on Earth consisted of anaerobic microbes subsisting on the energy provided by cycles of electron transfer between prevalent populations of electron donors and acceptors. Potential donors were molecular hydrogen (H2), hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and methane (CH4), whose electrons were transferred to acceptors such as carbon dioxide (CO2)...

iranian english learners’ perception and personality: a dual approach to investigating influential factors on willingness to communicate

abstract previous studies on willingness to communicate (wtc) have shown the influence of many individual or situational factors on students’ tendency to engage in classroom communication, in which wtc has been viewed either at the trait-level or situational level. however, due to the complexity of the notion of willingness to communicate, the present study suggests that these two strands are ...

Reply to David Ripley’s Comments on Comparison of Complex Predicates: ‘and’, ‘or’ and ‘more’

I agree with Ripley that additional theories and theoretical approaches should be considered in light of the findings discussed in my paper. I am particularly grateful for his remark concerning theories taking conjunction to be monontone. In a similar vein, joint work with Frank Veltman (in preparation), resulted in arguments against several dominant approaches to the analysis of vagueness and ...