Reply to T. Hasegawa et al and I. Gross et al

Reply to T. Hasegawa et al and I. Gross et al

Reply to Rao et al. and Lee et al

In the last issue, I presented a piece that called into question some of the techniques reported in two papers in high-profile journals that purported to provide statistical evidence for the linguistic status of some ancient symbol systems (Sproat 2010a). Not surprisingly the authors of those two papers took issue with a number of my claims, and have requested the opportunity to respond. The tw...

Hong Et Al. Reply to Canul-chay Et Al

Canul-Chay et al. [1] have conducted the segregation experiment of binary granular mixtures in a bed and subjected the bed to vibration. They report that the reverse Brazil-Nut phenomenon (RBNP) was never observed in their experiments and thus conclude that such does not exist. However, we have clearly demonstrated in [2] by Molecular Dynamics simulations that the reverse Brazil-Nut problem not...

Reply to R.L. Bowen et al, M. Froehner et al, J.L. Leow et al, and C. Brady et al.

Regarding our article on the association of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) with increased Alzheimer’s disease risk, Bowen et al, Froehner and Wirth, Leow et al, and Brady et al highlight a number of significant considerations that will prove important in the design of future studies that investigate the association of ADT and Alzheimer’s disease. We agree with Bowen et al and Leow et al tha...

Reply to Hong et al.

TO THE EDITOR—We thank Hong and colleagues [1] for their interest in our work [2]. We agree that the T-SPOT.TB test is likely to be less affected by lymphocytopenia or immunosuppression than the QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube (QFTGIT) test. It is possible that the extremely low number (n = 3) of negative results contributed to their finding that lymphocytopenia or ground glass opacity (GGO) on com...