As a general practitioner to whom patients presumably look for a source of disinterested information about their health, I have difficulty knowing what to make of the latest recommendations in the osteoporosis clinical practice guidelines and accompanying commentary. Contained therein is an expanded list of indications for testing and drug treatment for osteoporosis as recommended by a group of...

1 0.10 83 /j cb.17 86 it i1 jcb .178 6iti 1< /a id >Nic ole LeBrasseur [email protected] This IssueNewsKatanin cuts some, spares others A microtubule-severing protein plays favorites, say Sharma et al. The slicer, called Katanin, builds up...

Tuberculosis appears to be increasing throughout the world after years of continuous decline, despite the introduction of effective chemotherapy. This resurgence is related to the increasing number of patients immunocompromised by chemotherapeutic agents used to treat other diseases or AIDS; the appearance of multiple drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis, and aging population. Several species...

If all we want from a syntactic parser is a dependency tree, what do we gain by first computing a different representation such as a phrase structure tree? The principle of parsimony suggests that a simpler model should be preferred over a more complex model, all other things being equal, and the simplest model is arguably one that maps a sentence directly to a dependency tree – a bare-bones de...

programme was condemned. The country was further frustrated by a rejection for limited whaling around its own coastline, while Norway was allowed to hunt 1,000 whales. While governments wring their hands in frustration and annoyance, environmental activists are heading for the Southern Ocean and direct confrontation. Greenpeace, the longest-acting anti-whaling environmental group, said that its...

Article history: Received 22 August 2007 Accepted 29 February 2008 Available online xxxx

to fracture. However, bones fracture for different reasons, so there are several different biomechanical definitions of bone fragility. One function of bones is to carry loads. Fractures occur when loads exceed the bone strength, so weakened bones should be considered fragile. For example osteoporotic vertebral bodies might fracture during normal daily activities like opening a window or rising...

THE MODERN ERA OF DISEASE EMERGENCE AND REEMERGENCE IS ATTRIBUTED TO ISSUES RANGING from the deterioration of the environment, which brings humans in contact with pathogens that jump species barriers, to globalization, which is expanding the reach of pathogens beyond their former geographic boundaries. The transition from foraging to agriculture about 10,000 years ago accelerated the emergence ...