Hirschsprung's disease, also known as congenital aganglionic megacolon, is a congenital disorder which develops due to an absence of neural ganglia in a segment of large bowel. Most commonly, the rectum or rectosigmoid, and rarely other areas or the entire colon are involved. In this disease, all three neural plexi, i.e., the myenteric (Auerbach's) plexus, the superficial submucosal (Meiss...

C a r c o t i s c o n s i d e r e d t h e father of neurology. Not so much appreciated are his contributions t o m e d i c i n e a n d rheumatology. In fact he has been considered o n e o f t h e m o s t influential physicians of all time. Charcot was born on 29th November 1825 in Paris. His father was a carriage builder. He could support higher e d u c a t i o n o f o n l y one of his four son...

The Martin polynomial of an oriented Eulerian graph encodes information about families of cycles in the graph. This paper uses a transformation of the Martin polynomial that facilitates standard combinatorial manipulations. These manipulations result in several new identities for the Martin polynomial, including a di.erentiation formula. These identities are then applied to get new combinatoria...

I nteractions with extracellular matrix proteins such as fi bronectin infl uence cell locomotion, survival, and even growth. At the crux of all these activities sit integrins, transmembrane receptors that pass environmental information into the cell and also modulate the cell's interactions with the exterior milieu. Appreciation and understanding of integrins' importance continues to grow, but ...

Lawrence, N., Martin, A., Toner, G., Stockler, M., Buizen, L., Thomson, D., Gebski, V., Friedlander, M., Yeung, A., Wong, N., Grimison, P., et al (2016). Long-term outcomes of accelerated BEP (bleomycin, etoposide, cisplatin) for advanced germ cell tumours: updated analysis of an Australian multicenter phase II trial by the Australian and New Zealand Urogenital and Prostate Cancer Trials Group ...

The Sierpiński gasket in RN−1 has a representation as a quotient space of the shift space Σ = {1, ..., N}N. Its topology can be described by any Martin metric as introduced in Denker and Sato [Publ. Res. Inst. Math. Sci., Kyoto University 35, 1999, 769–794] and Imai, Kawasaki and Sato [Stochastics and Dynamics 3, 2003, 267–277]. These metrics are parametrized by all strictly positive 1-sequence...

AT THIS NEAR JUNCTURE of the two millennia, Martin Buber’s philosophy of dialogue, contained in his seminal work, I and Thou (1923), projects itself upon our consciousness with a profound awareness of its prophetic implications. Buber in his milieu was concerned with the eclipse of God, the encroachments of science, and the alienation of the individual from his spiritual essence. Newly develope...