Two Brief Thoughts on Technical Assistance (put simply and with some provocative exaggeration)

Some provocative thoughts on damage and repair of DNA

The instability of nucleic acid bases, responsible for hereditary information storage is amazing. Is there a system in this madness? All the nitrogen bases may undergo different kinds of rapid, spontaneous, or induced modification. They may form adducts and photoproducts, may be deaminated, methylated, and oxidized, or may be lost spontaneously or in the course of enzymatic processes. The list ...

Simply put: Vaccination saves lives.

Few measures in public health can compare with the impact of vaccines. Vaccinations have reduced disease, disability, and death from a variety of infectious diseases. For example, in the United States, children are recommended to be vaccinated against 16 diseases (1). Table 1 highlights the impact in the United States of immunization against nine vaccine-preventable diseases, including smallpox...

Some Thoughts on a Song or Two

I thought I'd write a song or two, so I tried, and tried again. It seemed like a perfectly natural thing for a young composer to do. Everyone else was doing it, so why couldn't I? But nothing worked, it felt wrong, it sounded bad, awkward, self-conscious, pretentious, even ugly. Was I just incompetent or was it that my musical frame of mind was antithetical to the task. Since I couldn't accept ...

on some bayesian statistical models in actuarial science with emphasis on claim count

چکیده ندارد.

“Some Thoughts on One and Two and Other Numerals”*