Acknowledgments: The authors thank Dr Reinhard Sedlmeier at Ingenium Pharmaceuticals GmbH for kindly providing them with the pSPL3b exon trapping vector and Dr Alex McMillan at Stanford University for statistical consultation. They also express gratitude to Parveen Abidi and Larry Okumoto of the Stanford Hematology Division/Cancer Institute Tissue Bank. G.P.N. was supported by National Institut...

hoped, were sufficiently full and precise to enable impartial readers to see that the investigation was carried on in neither a " dilettante nor perfunctory" manner ; and I may now add that all arrangements were under my personal supervision, that I -was almost continuously with the patients from first to last, and that I was energetically assisted by students who volunteered for this special d...

Each year, a committee consisting of the Editor-in-Chief and several invited members of the editorial board of Journal of Global Optimization (JOGO) considers articles published in JOGO during the preceding year for the Best Paper Award. In 2013, Kaisa Miettinen, Panos Pardalos, and Berc Rustem kindly accepted my invitation to serve on the committee. Out of 149 articles published in JOGO in 201...

We present detailed summaries of the talks that were given during a weeklong workshop on Arithmetic Groups at the Banff International Research Station in April 2013, organized by Kai-Uwe Bux (University of Bielefeld), Dave Witte Morris (University of Lethbridge), Gopal Prasad (University of Michigan), and Andrei Rapinchuk (University of Virginia). The vast majority of these reports are based on...

"BioMed Central will be the most significant development for disseminating the results of biomedical researc h in our lifetime." kindly pointed out that in the paragraph prior to the conclusion, it should read "Figure 3" instead of "Figure 2" and that in the last two sentences of that paragraph, it should read "gram-positive" instead of "gram-negative" [1]. article: verbatim copying and redistr...

To the Editor of " The Indian Medical Gazette. Dear Sir,-Will you kindly permit me to inquire through the medium of your paper, if any reader will please inform me directly or indirectly of the biggest known dimensions o a Russel's Viper? , Two years ago it was my good fortune to kill one nt with the best markings I have ever seen, and last year I sno one 4' 9" long with a girth of 5.|." 1 thin...

chromosomes and has kindly furnished the stocks for the trisomic tests. I also wish to thank Miss Harriet Creighton for her cytological assistance and Dr. C. R. Burnham for some of the stocks used in the experiments. I Belling, John, and A. F. Blakeslee, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 12, 7-11 (1926). 2 Brink, R. A., J. Hered., 18, 266-270 (1927). 3 Brink, R. A. and Burnham, C. R., Amer. Nat., 63, 301-...

5. Specimens from Prof. C. J. Watson's laboratory have been examined. The uroporphyrin methyl ester I had m.p. 292-293° and behaved as uroporphyrin I containing a trace of uroporphyrin III on paper chromatography. The 2080 ester behaved chromatographically as a hexacarboxylic porphyrin. We wish to thank Dr Falk and Miss Benson for performing the chromatographic examinations by their method, and...

Attached you find an SWG report on a possible new area of standardization activity: Web Collaboration At its June 2013 meeting SWG-P adopted this report, recognizing that it might still be too early to start standardization work right away. Instead we would like to get some feedback from the SC Chairmen on this report. In section 11 of the report SWG on Planning has identified a number of possi...

Tumors of the soft membranes of the brain and spinal cord, especially those of a diffuse character, are comparatively rare~ and a careflll study of each individual example is of distinct value. The dollowing case was kindly offered me for study by Prof. Ludvig ttektoen, to whom I am indebted for much assistance in the preparation of my report. Primary tumor of cerebrum, secondary diffuse sarcom...