In February 2007, we shared the teaching in an upper level Microeconomics seminar at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. Sophie Elliott was one of the students. Sophie’s scholarly term paper, ‘Why measure inequality? A discussion of the concept of equality’, presented here in slightly abridged form, was easily the best essay on equity and equality either of us had ever read. Sophie...

Despite the increasing body of evidence supporting the hypothesis of schizophrenia as a disconnection syndrome, studies of resting-state EEG Source Functional Connectivity (EEG-SFC) in people affected by schizophrenia are sparse. The aim of the present study was to investigate resting-state EEG-SFC in 77 stable, medicated patients with schizophrenia (SCZ) compared to 78 healthy volunteers (HV)....

Dispersal is a fundamental biological process, operating at multiple temporal and spatial scales. Despite an increasing understanding of fungal biodiversity, most research on fungal dispersal focuses on only a small fraction of species. Thus, any discussion of the dispersal dynamics of fungi as a whole is problematic. While abundant morphological and biogeographic data are available for hundred...

Early liver transplantation for severe alcoholic hepatitis by Mathurin, P., Moreno, C., Samuel, D., Dumortier, J., Salleron, J., Durand, F., Castel, H., Duhamel, A., Pageaux, G. P., Leroy, V., Dharancy, S., Louvet, A., Boleslawski, E., Lucidi, V., Gustot, T., Francoz, C., Letoublon, C., Castaing, D., Belghiti, J., Donckier, V., Pruvot, F. R., and Duclos-Vallée, J. C. (2011). N. Engl. J. Med. 36...

Dedicated to Maria-Teresa Gomez, my beautiful children Liam and Jessica Barry, my brother Greg Barry and his beautiful family, my mother and father, Sue Wallace, Stevie Vanhegan, Margo Marvin, Frank Ledwith, Jack Whitehead, Robert Pirsig, Paulo Freire, Robert LaRochelle, Ed Duclos, Phil Harak, Coach Jude Kelly, Joe Ehrmann, Mrs. Ward, and Laura Hayes without whom the creation of TQ Theory would...

Most previous attempts at reconstructing the past history of human populations did not explicitly take geography into account or considered very simple scenarios of migration and ignored environmental information. However, it is likely that the last glacial maximum (LGM) affected the demography and the range of many species, including our own. Moreover, long-distance dispersal (LDD) may have be...

BACKGROUND Cowden syndrome is characterized by multiple hamartomas in various tissues, including the skin, brain, breast, thyroid, mucous membrane, and gastrointestinal tract, and is reported to increase the risk of malignant disease. CASE PRESENTATION We describe the case of a 52-year-old woman in whom a tumor was diagnosed in the left cerebellar hemisphere and treated by surgical resection....

We consider a perturbed Floquet Hamiltonian −i∂t + H + βV (ωt) in the Hilbert space L([0, T ],H, dt). Here H is a self-adjoint operator in H with a discrete spectrum obeying a growing gap condition, V (t) is a symmetric bounded operator in H depending on t 2π-periodically, ω = 2π/T is a frequency and β is a coupling constant. The spectrum Spec(−i∂t + H) of the unperturbed part is pure point and...