Introduction Increased demand by patients and clinicians for esthetic restorations coupled with the public’s concern about mercury have resulted in an escalating use of resin composite materials (1). Resin composite is now often utilized to restore tooth surfaces previously accomplished with silver amalgam. Packable (a.k.a. moldable or condensable) resin composites are the product of vast amoun...

Current Opinion in Gastroenterology 2010, 26:165–169 Purpose of review Food addiction has been implicated as a putative causal factor in chronic overeating, binge eating, and obesity. The concept of food addiction has been controversial historically due to definitional and conceptual difficulties and to a lack of rigorous scientific data. Recent findings Support for the food addiction hypothesi...

Harvard University now boasts of a great number of accomplished historians whose interests and methods align them primarily—though not necessarily exclusively—with intellectual history. These include (in alphabetical order): David Armitage, Ann Blair, Peter Bol, Joyce Chaplin, Peter Gordon, James Hankins, James Kloppenberg, Emma Rothschild, and Judith Surkis. But just what is intellectual history?

Using Telemedicine in the Provision of Dermatology Lanis Hicks1, Keith Boles1, Stan Hudson1, Richard Madsen2, Barry Kling3, Joe Tracy4, Joyce Mitchell5, Weldon Webb6 1Department of Health Management and Informatics, 2Department of Statistics and BioStatistics Group, 3Associate Dean for External Affairs, 4Director of Telehealth, 5Associate Dean for Information Services, 6Associate Vice Chancello...

Readers of Joyce know the character Gabriel Conroy from Dubliners’ final, longest, and most famous short story, “The Dead”. But question whether they have read a novel called will certainly make those readers frown. Yet before protagonist Dead” was created by Joyce, another in literature had been this name, Captain Conroy, Bret Harte’s 1876 homonymous novel. By choosing that name for his establ...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a classic case of a text that exemplifies itself. Stephen Daedalus undertakes a quest for a new form of novel and the resultant novel is written in the new form which he discovers (Joyce and Egoist Press. 1917). Before James Joyce wrote this book he completed his first novel, Stephen Hero, in which the protagonist undertakes a quest for a new form of n...

A second order family of special Lagrangian submanifolds of C m is a family characterized by the satisfaction of a set of pointwise conditions on the second fundamental form. For example, the set of ruled special Lagrangian submanifolds of C 3 is characterized by a single algebraic equation on the second fundamental form. While the ‘generic’ set of such conditions turns out to be incompatible, ...

The language style in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man renders no uniformity. In fact the language style varies with the growth of the novel's protagonist Stephen Dedalus. By employing the way of stylistic analysis in terms of linguistic levels of phonology, lexicology and grammar, this paper is to objectively describe, precisely interpret and reasonably evaluate those fore...