Rethinking Article I, Section 1: From Nondelegation to Exclusive Delegation

Article section: Clinical/Epidemiologic Research

PURPOSE. This study examined the relationship between high myopia and three myopia candidate genes, namely matrix metalloproteinase 2 (MMP2) and tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase 2 and 3 (TIMP2 and TIMP3), involved in scleral remodeling. METHODS. The study recruited unrelated adult Han Chinese who were high myopes (spherical equivalent ≤-6.0D for both eyes; cases) and emmetropes (within ±1....

How to write an introduction section of a scientific article?

An article primarily includes the following sections: introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, and conclusion. Before writing the introduction, the main steps, the heading and the familiarity level of the readers should be considered. Writing should begin when the experimental system and the equipment are available. The introduction section comprises the first portion of the ma...

From Tree-Based Generators to Delegation Networks

The first part of this paper is a brief survey on tree-based generators, including some typical examples taken from the fields of string, tree, graph, and picture generation. In the second part, an extension of the tree-based generator called delegation network is proposed. Intuitively, a delegation network is a network of tree-based generators that can “delegate” subtasks to each other. In thi...

Section I

Bovine diarrhea virus (BVDV) causes a variety of economically important enteric and infertility problems. For that reason, several countries have eradicated the disease and some others have schemes in progress to achieve freedom from it. Although there is a considerable amount of information about the risk of BVDV transmission through contaminated semen used for AI, there is no available eviden...

Section I