I am deeply indebted to my supervisor Albrecht Wendel, who initiated and conducted this study. Besides providing outstanding working facilities, his constant encouragement, his personal support, and his unique sense for bringing together scientific concerns and social commitment created the solid basis for the success of this PhD thesis. Their personal efforts to run this institution by organiz...

Title of Document: THE DYNAMICS OF POLITICAL PARTICIPATION: AN ANALYSIS OF THE DYNAMIC INTERACTION BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR POLITICAL MICRO-ENVIRONMENT Stephen Wendel, Ph.D., 2012 Directed By: Professor Joe Oppenheimer, Department of Government and Politics While political choices are rarely isolated or simultaneous, the vast majority of empirical models in political science assume they ar...

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Perhaps no one has had a greater influence on the development ofhybridization theory than Dr. Ledyard Stebbins. However, his contributions have not been restricted to his writings or lectures alone. Many of you have marveled at the great authority with which Dr. Stebbins identified the hybrid status, parentage, and ploidal level of plants in the field or on herbarium sheets. He didn't seem to n...

Can the value of a scientific discipline be gauged? Where does the discipline stand? Is such a consideration important at all? Some may have doubts about the usefulness of asking such questions. Some will see the research into alternative methods as a categorical imperative. Others again will have a more differentiated view, a group that will comprise policy makers, those that provide funding a...

Toshio Kaneko, MD, Third Department of Internal Medicine, Yamaguchi University School of Medicine, Koguchi, Ube Yamaguchi 755 (Japan) Oxidative damage of red cell membrane is known to be accelerated in sickle cell disease. However, the exact mechanism of this acceleration is unclear. We have read with interest the recent article entitled ‘Selenium and Glutathione Peroxidase Levels in Sickle Cel...

Theory in time series analysis is often developed in the context of nite-dimensional models for the data generating process. Whereas corresponding estimators such as those of a conditional mean function are reasonable even if the true dependence mechanism is of a more complex structure, it is usually necessary to capture the whole dependence structure asymptotically for the bootstrap to be vali...

5. Eshelman-Kent D, Gilger E, Gallagher M. Transitioning survivors of central nervous system tumors: challenges for patients, families, and health care providers. J Pediatr Oncol Nurs. 2009;26:280—94. 6. Gotlieb EM, Gotlieb JS. Helping adolescents with attentiondeficit/hyperactivity disorder transition toward adulthood. Adolesc Med State Art Rev. 2009;20:203—22. 7. Rekate HL. The pediatric neur...

A case of gallbladder volvulus is presented. This is a rare entity that most frequently affects elderly females. It is associated with anatomical variations relating to abnormal fixation of the gallbladder to the liver bed. Diagnosis is usually at laparotomy and early surgical treatment is essential. Cholecystectomy may be performed laparoscopically or as an open procedure. Gallbladder volvulus...

Chagas disease is caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, widespread in the American Continent. A recent report of the World Health Organization estimated that 16-18 million people are currently infected and that about 90 million individuals living in endemic areas are at risk of contracting T. cruzi infection. The high prevalence and continental extension of Chagas disease in Latin...