Editor, We read with great interest the article by Prabhakar et al. [1] regarding the use of bispectral index (BIS) monitoring for an elective frontal craniotomy and fenestration in a 2-year-old boy with bilateral frontal lobe porencephalic cysts. During the procedure, the patient presented low preanaesthetic BIS values (39) that showed no significant change (between 30 and 40), despite a reduc...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The eutrophication process is increased by anthropogenic or aquaculture facilities in marine ecosystems. DNA damage biomarkers for fish species detect genotoxic parameters for ecological risk assessment. The aim of the present study was to determine genotoxic potential induced by marine cage culture in Iskenderun Bay on gilthead sea bream (Sparus ...

I show that the benefit of a high reserve price in a commonvalues ascending auction is lower than in the observationally-equivalent private values setting. Put another way, when bidders actually have common values, empirical estimation based on a private values model will overstate the value of a high reserve price. Via numerical examples, I show that this same ranking typically applies to the ...

We use the lace expansion to prove that the critical values for nearest-neighbour bond percolation on the n-cube {0, 1}n and on Zn have asymptotic expansions, with rational coefficients, to all orders in powers of n−1. 1 Main result We consider bond percolation on Z with edge set consisting of pairs {x, y} of vertices in Z with ‖x−y‖1 = 1, where ‖w‖1 = nj=1 |wj| for w ∈ Z. Bonds (edges) are ind...