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Faith et al. (2003) strongly criticize our paper (Posadas et al. 2001). Their criticisms are based on what they consider our “ill definitions” and “erroneous applications” of the words complementarity, endemism, and biodiversity. The objectives of our reply to Faith et al. are to demonstrate that their criticisms do not satisfy epistemological and methodological tenets and to compare some aspec...

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Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) (Giger and Suzuki 2007) has been an active area of study in medical image analysis, because evidence suggests that CAD can help improve the diagnostic performance of radiologists in their image interpretations (Li, Aoyama et al. 2004; Li, Arimura et al. 2005; Dean and Ilvento 2006). Many investigators have participated in and developed CAD schemes for detection/di...

Cardiac perforation after pacemaker or implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) implantation is an infrequent complication. The reported rates of perforation are 0.1-0.8% after pacemaker implantation and 0.6-5.2% after ICD implantation (Khan et al., 2005; Mahapatra et al., 2005). From 1994 to 2009, total 1026 permanent pacemakers and ICDs were implanted in my lab, and two cases (0.2%) devel...

In the early 1990s, Iijima (1991) discovered a onedimensional (1D) nanostructure, the carbon nanotube (CNT), which sparked an entirely new avenue within nanoscience and nanotechnology. Nanowires (NWs) (Cui and Lieber 2001), nanorods (Li and Alivisatos 2003), nanotubes (Wang and Li 2003), and nanobelts (Pan et al. 2001) of various materials have been successfully synthesized shortly afterwards. ...

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