If you ask most medical school deans if they have a course, program, or center doing bioethics, they will enthusiastically assure you that they do. And their enthusiasm for bioethics grows exponentially in proportion to their interest in showing that they are doing something about managing research ethics issues at their institutions. The same can be said about the entire biomedical research es...

We investigate the indirect generation of the partial width of the ω(782) meson with respect to the reaction ω(782) → ρ(770)π → π+π−π0 within the context of a “Unitary Effective Resonance Model” (UERM), which has previously been applied to resonant fermionic field operators, here extended to scalar, pseudoscalar and vector bosonic fields. The ω(782) meson is described by a (quasi-)real field, w...

X k=1 z 0k A0;k(z M)Mi01(z M): (41) This formula makes transparent exactly what happens in a recursive computation of the correlation functions. At every stage i, we have the Z-transform at points M 0i n of the appropriate function. In going to the (i + 1)st stage, the rst term Mi01(z M) ensures that values at the previous stage are retained at the even points, while the second term interpolate...

A collection of related N by M images, such as a set of faces, may be modeled by a manifold embedded in an NM -dimensional Euclidean space called an image manifold. With the modeling of image spaces as manifolds, geometric properties of image manifolds can be studied either theoretically or experimentally. A practical result of the investigation of image manifolds provides an insight into image...

BACKGROUND During mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) conversion into adipocytes, the adipogenic cocktail consisting of insulin, dexamethasone, indomethacin and 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine not only induces adipogenic-specific but also genes for non-adipogenic processes. Therefore, not all significantly expressed genes represent adipogenic-specific marker genes. So, our aim was to filter only adipogenic...

Abstract Introduction Poor outcomes following emergency laparotomy include death and the loss of independent living. A widely-held apprehension is ‘salvage’ a previously patient, only to render them reliant on long-term dependent care. We aimed establish proportion patients who returned their pre-hospital residence laparotomy, measured at discharge, 90 365 days. Methods Data was collected all o...

If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis (or the atomic fact, or whatever you wish to call it) that all things are made of atoms—little particles that move around in perpetual motion, at...