W hat a great stroke of luck this winter for the National Basketball Association (NBA). After the walkout of 2011 that featured multimillionaires arguing with billionaires over their fair share of the league revenues, when most sports fans could not be coaxed away for the National Football League playoff games and the National Hockey League, enter phenom Jeremy Lin to save the face of the NBA. ...

In this book Miss Jephcott, author of Girls Growing Up, gives us a picture of 100 ordinary working-class girls in three very different parts of England. The one thing they have in common is that at the time of the study they were all over 17 and under 21. From the girls themselves the author has learned about the interests and thoughts of adolescents between the ages of 14 and 20, and the resul...

A review of the question of the usefulness of reserving waters for protection from exploitation in the whitebait fishery was undertaken at a small workshop. Creation of reserves has social, fisheries management and conservation imperatives. Administration of reserves has costs for the Department of Conservation. Evaluation of the value of reserves as places where whitebait stocks are protected ...

of overlapping interests. Put them in a good physical plant with lots of shared space, and let them go to it. When it comes to the size of individual research groups, there’s a value-formoney issue too — we are mostly spending the taxpayers’ coin, after all. I have always had the impression that individual laboratory groups larger than about a dozen full-time workers produce less science per do...

managed to lure chemical geneticist Guri Giaever away from Stanford University two years ago, part of the inducement was a new, bigger lab, and part was a prestigious government-funded research chair. But the biggest factor in the move, Giaever says, was the colleagues with whom she would be working. “In terms of what I’m doing, I would pretty much say hands down that Toronto is the best place ...

To the Editor: Rosen’s Perspective article (March 5 issue)1 highlights recent findings that gut-derived serotonin inhibits bone formation by stimulating serotonin receptors on the preosteoblast.2 A critical question is whether serotonin is delivered to bone in some blood element or as free plasma serotonin. The serum serotonin measurements used by Yadav and colleagues2 reflect an undefined prop...

Abstract Several determinants with gamma functions as elements are evaluated. These kinds of determinants are encountered, for example, in the computation of the probability density of the determinant of random matrices. The s-shifted factorial is defined as a generalization for non-negative integers of the power function, the rising factorial (or Pochammer’s symbol) and the falling factorial. ...