Eve Marder explains why all scientists should spend time living and working in a foreign country.

BACKGROUND Acute pancreatitis (AP) following KT is a rare and often fatal complication of the early post-transplant period. Common causative factors for AP are rare after KT; anti-rejection drugs as CyA, prednisone and MMF have been implicated, although evidence is not strong and we found no reports on possible causative role for mTOR inhibitors. CASE PRESENTATION A 55-year-old Caucasian man ...

Understanding the regulatory mechanisms that produce quantitatively precise and spatiotemporally restricted patterns of gene expression remains a fundamental challenge in developmental biology. Until recently, the prevailing view has been that additive contributions from modular enhancers that each control specific features of a gene’s overall expression pattern together produce the full comple...

We assume that Eve and Bob are connected to Alice with additive white Gaussian noise, and their noises are correlated. We mathematically formulate the correlation between their noises, and optimize Eve’s strategy. We give a necessarily and sufficient condition to generate the agreed secure key between Alice and Bob even with the Eve’s optimal strategy. Further, in this setting, we give a concre...

Short Description: This report summarises our first three months research into the possible approaches for applying a Neural Networks (NNs) based intelligence to the Multi-Agent System (MAS) model of the Evolutionary Environment (EvE). The ultimate aim of which is to create a distributed intelligence capable of optimising the EvE. The approaches considered include applying NNs at the level of e...

Chapter 2 of Women in Ministry tries to explain why there are no women priests in Israel. Its author, an Old Testament scholar, maintains that the absence of female priests in ancient Israel cannot be used as an argument against women’s ordination. The author states that he approaches the Bible through “exegetical research.” This, he explains, means that he “will not move from a priori definiti...

The replacement hypothesis proposes that “modern humans” evolved only in sub-Saharan Africa, through a speciation event rendering them unable to breed with other hominins. They then spread throughout Africa, then to Asia, Australia and finally to Europe, replacing all other humans by exterminating or outcompeting them. In this critical analysis of the replacement hypothesis it is shown that it ...

\eVe look at spectral clustering as optimization. \eVe show that near some special points called perfect, spectral clustering optimizes simultaneously two criteria: a dissimilarity measure that we call the rrmltiway normalized c'ut (lvfNC'I1t) and a cluster coherence measure that we call the gap. The immediate implication from the user's p.o.v is that spectral clustering will optimize any trade...

We consider a setup in which the channel from Alice to Bob is less noisy than the channel from Eve to Bob. We show that there exist encoding and decoding which accomplish error correction and authentication simultaneously; that is, Bob is able to correctly decode a message coming from Alice and reject a message coming from Eve with high probability. The system does not require any secret key sh...