Fish names are not only of interest to the ichthyologist. Linguists too have been studying fish name as they are generally regarded as a more stable subsection of the lexicon, which is less subject to change and more reliable as a source for historical reconstruction. However in the Pacific, especially in Polynesia with its history of migration, linguists have to be careful when using fish name...

BACKGROUND Workers with persistent disabilities after orthopaedic trauma may need occupational rehabilitation. Despite various risk profiles for non-return-to-work (non-RTW), there is no available predictive model. Moreover, injured workers may have various origins (immigrant workers), which may either affect their return to work or their eligibility for research purposes. The aim of this study...

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Let G and H be graphs, with |G| ≤ |H|. Consider a one-to-one map f:G→H, and define |f| = min{distH(f(x),f(y)): xy E(G)}. Now let the separation of G in H be defined by sep(G,H) = max{|f|: all one-to-one maps f:G→H}. We survey some results of the past several years on this parameter, in particular using Alon and Milman's results on the connection between the second largest eigenvalue of a graph ...

Thrombospondin (TSP)-2 is known to be an endogenous negative regulator of vascularization in human cancer. However, it is unclear whether TSP-2 expression is related to neovascularization and prognosis in non-small cell lung cancer. In this study, we quantitatively examined the expression of TSP-2 mRNA by real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) in 102 pulmonary adenoc...