Why EPA and IARC Classifications of Glyphosate Oncogenicity Differ

Evaluation of the IARC Monograph on Glyphosate

Regulatory authorities and scientific programs within the World Health Organization (WHO) have consistently concluded that glyphosate is not carcinogenic. The International Agency for Research on Cancer’s (IARC) classification of glyphosate as a Group 2A, “probable human carcinogen”, is inconsistent with the conclusions reached by other WHO expert committees and with decades of reviews by regul...

Review of IARC Monograph 112 (Glyphosate): Tier 2

Why Do Boards Differ? Because Owners Do!

We argue that the choice and composition of the Board of Directors is determined by the constituents of the ownership types within a firm. We categorize ownership in three distinct types-individual, corporate and institutional. We hypothesize and empirically link each ownership type to a type of Board Director. The board of directors is considered to be an important component of governance of a...

Explaining Why Fraction Magnitudes Differ - 1

The main purposes of this study were to test the effects of teaching at-risk 4 graders to provide explanations for their mathematics work and examine whether those effects occur by compensating for limitations in cognitive processes. We randomly assigned 212 children to 3 conditions: a control group and 2 variants of a multi-component fraction intervention. Both intervention conditions included...

Why do axons differ in caliber?

CNS axons differ in diameter (d) by nearly 100-fold (∼0.1-10 μm); therefore, they differ in cross-sectional area (d(2)) and volume by nearly 10,000-fold. If, as found for optic nerve, mitochondrial volume fraction is constant with axon diameter, energy capacity would rise with axon volume, also as d(2). We asked, given constraints on space and energy, what functional requirements set an axon's ...