Nightlight Christian Adoptions [3] et al. v. Thompson et al. was a lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on 8 March 2001. The suit was filed because Nightlight Christian Adoptions [3], a frozen embryo [4] adoption agency, felt that the Guidelines for Research Using Human Pluripotent Stem Cells [5] published by the National Institutes for Health were unla...

In the last issue, I presented a piece that called into question some of the techniques reported in two papers in high-profile journals that purported to provide statistical evidence for the linguistic status of some ancient symbol systems (Sproat 2010a). Not surprisingly the authors of those two papers took issue with a number of my claims, and have requested the opportunity to respond. The tw...

Thomson [4], et al. v. Thompson, et al. was a lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on 8 May 2001 as Civil Action Number 01-CV-0973. This lawsuit was filed in hopes of gaining injunctive relief against a moratorium on the federal funding of stem cell research. The plaintiffs in the case were seven prominent scientists who performed embryonic stem cell re...

To identify critical sediment sources in large catchments, using easily available terrain information at a regionalscale, a methodology was developed to obtain a qualitative assessment necessary for environmental management.Fargas et al method was employed in the research. The study was carried out in one of the sub-basins of Hableh Roodbasin called Dehnamak in the arid and semiarid climate of ...

In most materials, there exists a coupling effect between heat and moisture during their transient diffusion. In particular, the coupling effect gives a significant change in the distributions of temperature and moisture concentration in some porous materials and resin composites (Chang, et al., 1991). Moreover, it is known that the absorption of moisture by hygroscopic materials under high-tem...

A supply chain is a network of facilities and distribution entities (suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers) that performs the functions of procurement of raw materials, transformation of raw materials into intermediate and finished products and distribution of finished products to customers. Between interconnected entities, there are two types of process flows: information flows, e....

We present an analytical approach for pressure transient test analysis in naturally fractured vuggy reservoirs. This analysis approach relies on a triple-continuum concept, using observed geological data from carbonate oil formations in western China, to describe transient flow behavior in fracture-vugmatrix reservoirs. In the conceptual mathematical model, fractured vuggy rock is considered as...

the absence of a universally accepted mathematical model for assessment of the effectiveness of drugs in the process of wound healing is one of the problems the health professionals have been faced. in this study, an “empirical” mathematical model is presented to evaluate its reliability from an experimental viewpoint and from a comparative aspect with previous models used to study wound healin...

in this commentary, we establish a relationship between medical sociology and the study of medical tourism and cross-border healthcare by introducing ronald andersen’s behavioral model of healthcare use, and linking this model to the recent empirical study of kovacs et al. on patients travelling to hungary for orthopedic treatment. finally, we plead for more measurement in the field of patient ...