OBJECTIVE To examine the prevalence of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, Mexican American, and other racial/ethnic groups. DESIGN A US nationally representative, population-based, cross-sectional study involving a total of 5553 persons aged 40 years and older from the 2005-2008 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. The main outcome m...

The Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan has renewed debates on the safety of nuclear power, possibly hurting the role of nuclear power in efforts to limit CO2 emissions. I develop a dynamic economy-wide model of Taiwan with a detailed set of technology options in the power sector to examine the implications of adopting different nuclear power policies on CO2 emissions and the economy. Absent a ...

We describe a patient in whom two lymph node biopsies removed 18 months apart disclosed histologic and immunophenotypic evidence of a non-Hodgkin's lymphoma containing neoplastic lymphocytes of both B and T type. Analyses of immunoglobulin and T cell receptor genes confirmed the presence of separate B and T cell clones. In addition, immunogenotyping revealed the possibility of a second B cell c...

In this note we formally show a well known (but not well documented) fact that in order to beat the famous Shannon lower bound on key length for one-time-secure encryption, one must simultaneously restrict the attacker to be efficient, and also allow the attacker to break the system with some non-zero (i.e., negligible) probability. Our proof handles probabilistic encryption, as well as a small...