Thirty Million Words––and Even More Functional Relations: a Review of Suskind’s Thirty Million Words

A Thirty Million Year-Old Inherited Heteroplasmy

Due to essentially maternal inheritance and a bottleneck effect during early oogenesis, newly arising mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations segregate rapidly in metazoan female germlines. Consequently, heteroplasmy (i.e. the mixture of mtDNA genotypes within an organism) is generally resolved to homoplasmy within a few generations. Here, we report an exceptional transpecific heteroplasmy (predict...

Thirty-something million: should they be exceptions?

There are over 30 million people in the United States with disabilities or functional limitations (of which a major cause is aging), and this number is increasing. An examination of the role of human factors in addressing this population is presented which includes both special designs for disability/aging and the incorporation of disability/aging into mainstream human factors research and educ...

Thirty Years of Literate Programming and More?

Don Knuth created Literate Programming about thirty years ago. It could be called a methodology, discipline, paradigm, . . . Bentley’s “Programming Pearls” article about Knuth’s book, TEX: The Program, caused a huge stir in the computing professions. Soon there was announcement of a Literate Programming section for the CACM . Several “Literate Programming systems” quickly appeared. This was fol...

Coccygectomy. A review of thirty-seven cases.

COCCYDYNIA is a condition for which there are many forms of treatment. This is partly a reflection of the fact that coccydynia is a subjective complaint and therefore difficult to assess, indeed it can probably only be assessed subjectively. Coccydynia usually responds to conservative measures, but when these measures fail coccygectomy has been reported to be successful." 2 However, it is our i...

Equity Valuation: More than Thirty Years Later