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...

Luscher et al., 1999). This indicates that NSF maintains form a complex in the presence of ATP␥S. Similar a high level of synaptic AMPARs, either by preventing to SNARE complex disassembly, NSF ATPase activity their removal by endocytosis or facilitating their insertion disrupts PICK1-GluR2 interactions in this complex. ␣-by exocytosis. The same peptide treatment occludes and ␤-SNAP have differ...

Cervical cancer is the second prevalent malignant cancer among women in the world (Parkin & Bray, 2006). The Papanicolaou (Pap) smear is essential for early detection and timely treatment of cervical cancer, and reducing the progress of the disease and its mortality in women (Blackman et al., 1999). Annual Pap smear is recommended for sexually active females (Fink, 1988). Despite the advantages...

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is highly prevalent in southern China, especially in Guang Dong and Hong Kong, due to its insidious location of tumorigenesis and various clinical symptoms, most patients has been in locally advanced stage before diagnosed (Lu et al., 2009). Main causes of failure in treatment of high T staged nasopharyngeal carcinoma are residual or recurrence (Dimery et al., 199...

The idea to compile the present collection of articles on the topic on dental enamel formation and maturation was born in the course of a discussion over a glass of wine during the 11th International Conference on the Chemistry and Biology of Mineralized Tissues (ICCBMT) in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin in November 2013. Both of us felt that several issues specific to the mineralization of enamel dese...

In order to improve the security in remote authentication systems, numerous biometric-based authentication schemes using smart cards have been proposed. Recently, Moon et al. presented an authentication scheme to remedy the flaws of Lu et al.'s scheme, and claimed that their improved protocol supports the required security properties. Unfortunately, we found that Moon et al.'s scheme still has ...

Fuzzy systems (FSs) have been extensively applied to automatic control, pattern recognition, and decision analysis. However, a common bottleneck is encountered in the derivation of fuzzy rules, which is often difficult, time consuming, and relies on expert knowledge. To automate the design of FSs, many metaheuristic learning algorithms have been proposed. One major optimization category uses Sw...

Au cours de cette année (2021-2022), nous avons continué l’étude des versets qur’āniques ayant trait aux trois catégories taxinomiques que sont les Écritures (al-tawrāah, al-zabūr, al-inǧīl, al-ṣuḥuf al-ūlá), Messagers (al-rusul, i.e. apôtres Dieu), et peuples reçu ou se réclamant mêmes (par exemple al-yahūd, al-naṣārá, al-ṣābiʾūn, al-majūs). Nous sommes concentrés sur l’exégèse d’al-Ṭabarī (m....