Introductory Comments As the new Editor-in-Chief for Marketing Science, it is a great pleasure to provide my first editorial. The objective of this editorial is to outline the strategy for Marketing Science and how it will be implemented. In particular, this editorial announces several new types of papers the journal will accept and why. Before doing so, however, we must all emphatically compli...

This paper aims to present a theoretical survey of the capability approach in an interdisciplinary and accessible way. It focuses on the main conceptual and theoretical aspects of the capability approach, as developed by Amartya Sen, Martha Nussbaum, and others. The capability approach is a broad normative framework for the evaluation and assessment of individual well-being and social arrangeme...

Department of Neurology, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China Basic Research Program, Leidos, Inc., National Cancer Institute at Frederick, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, Maryland, United States Metabolism and Cancer Susceptibility Section, Basic Research Laboratory, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, M...

Background: SEN virus (SENV) is the latest virus proposed as a cause of unknown hepatitis cases. Among nine detected genotypes of the virus, genotypes D and H are more frequent in hepatitis cases of unknown origin. The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of SENV-D and SENV-H genotypes in the sera of healthy individuals and hepatitis B and C patients. Methods: Totally, 200 serum sam...

global warming has brought about changes in meteorological variable time series. these changes, accompanied with serious human intervention in nature, has resulted in hydrological changes. so the effects can be tracked down by the trend of the time series. the purpose of this study is to analyze and compare the monthly and annual trends of temperature, precipitation as well as stream flow time ...

We analyze M-theory compactified on (K3 × S)/Z2 where the Z2 changes the sign of the three form gauge field, acts on S as a parity transformation and on K3 as an involution with eight fixed points preserving SU(2) holonomy. At a generic point in the moduli space the resulting theory has as its low energy limit N = 1 supergravity theory in six dimensions with eight vector, nine tensor and twenty...