uncaned boys. 26 per cent. of the boys studied had been classified as delinquent in police records by a date at which their mean age was 15 years 4 months. Delinquent boys were significantly heavier smokers than non-delinquents, but the difference was not as marked as that between caned and uncaned boys. There was an apparent decline in smoking over a year. This may be due to errors of recall b...

My primary research is in the representation of semantic information and its use in natural language processing applications. The meaning of a sentence is a central aspect of natural language understanding, yet an elusive one, since there is no accepted methodology for determining meaning. There is not even a consensus on criteria for distinguishing word senses, as can easily be seen by compari...

This is the first of two lectures by Phil Green on “Sequence Assembly.” Yeast and some of the bacterial genomes have already been completely sequenced. There is also a rapidly growing body of known human sequence. All this has been because of our ability to read DNA. This lecture discusses the shotgun strategy for rapid DNA sequencing, and begins discussion of sequence assembly algorithms (to b...

MGMT and the DNA mismatch repair genes MLH1, MSH2, MSH6 and PMS2 in paired primary and recurrent glioblastomas. Int J Cancer. 2011;129(3):659-670. 10. Gömöri E, Pál J, Kovács B, Dóczi T. Concurrent hypermethylation of DNMT1, MGMT and EGFR genes in progression of gliomas. Diagn Pathol. 2012;7:8. 11. Laffaire J, Everhard S, Idbaih A, et al. Methylation profiling identifies 2 groups of gliomas acc...

Herbicide-resistant Palmer amaranth is a widespread issue in row-crop production in the Midsouthern US. Palmer amaranth is commonly found on roadside habitats in this region, but little is known on the degree of herbicide resistance in these populations. Herbicide resistance in roadside Palmer amaranth populations can represent the spread of an adaptive trait across a selective landscape. A lar...

21 Sanderson JE, Waterhouse TD, Neubauer K, Palmer R. Epidural spinal stimulation in patients suffering from intractable angina [Abstract]. J Am Coll Cardiol 1989;13:46A. 22 Sanderson JE, Waterhouse TD, Palmer RBG. Epidural spinal stimulation in patients with intractable angina [Abstract]. Br Heart J 1989;61:462. 23 Landsheere C, Habets A, Mannheimer C, et al. Epidural stimulation in angina pec...

A macular hole (MH) is a widely known disease among ophthalmologists. Vitrectomy with internal limiting membrane (ILM) peeling standard technique for full-thickness MHs. However, the recurrence of MHs sometimes seen. In addition, an eccentric MH to rarely occur after vitrectomy. An has been considered require no therapeutic intervention because its lack increase in size. This study reports case...

PURPOSE To evaluate the effect of vitrectomy on the best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) and postoperative complications in highly myopic eyes with myopic traction maculopathy. METHODS The medical records of 71 eyes of 64 patients with myopic traction maculopathy and high myopia (≤-8.0 diopters and axial length, ≥26.0 mm) were reviewed. Twenty-six eyes had only macular retinoschisis, 30 eyes h...

PURPOSE To investigate the incidence of and risk factors for a dissociated optic nerve fiber layer (DONFL) after epiretinal membrane surgery. METHODS Two hundred and ninety-six primary pars plana vitrectomy operations for epiretinal membrane that were eligible for inclusion in the study. All patients received a complete ophthalmologic examination and color fundus photography, optical coherenc...

Thin adhesive pads used to attach objects to each other often fail catastrophically. Here we consider the nature of failure of such a pad under loading parallel to the adhesive substrate. To determine the modes of failure of the pad and to understand what limits its load bearing capacity, we conduct experiments with finite pads composed of a soft adhesive layer with a stiff backing and load the...