Thanks to its optical anisotropy and mechanical properties, luminescent wood is a promising material for indoor lighting applications.

The hair thread is a natural fiber formed by keratin, a protein containing high concentration of sulfur coming from the amino acid cystine. The main physical proprieties of the hair depend mostly on its geometry; the physical and mechanical properties of hair involve characteristics to improve: elasticity, smoothness, volume, shine, and softness due to both the significant adherence of the cuti...

OBJECTIVE To examine the information needs of users of the Stanford Health Information Network for Education (SHINE), an integrated information retrieval (IR) system. METHODS A subset of queries from the SHINE log were categorized into one or more of 33 categories. RESULTS Drugs and infectious disease accounted for 25% of categorizations, and otherwise the distribution of categorizations wa...

In fact, the commercial potential of the EDFA is such that the telecommunications industry has invested enormous resources in doped-fiber amplifier development over the past ten years. As a result, steady advances have occurred in fiber fabrication and design as well as in the understanding of the spectroscopic properties of rare-earth ions in a glass matrix. This research has also driven devel...

We have developed a positive screen for cloning PCR products based on translational activation of lacZ. A vector with a translationally deficient lacZ alpha gene has been made by deletion of the Shine-Dalgarno sequence and initiation codon. The Shine-Dalgarno sequence and initiation codon are incorporated into one of the PCR primers to allow complementation by the PCR product of the inactive la...

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Physician-scientists have been recognized as an important piece for the advancement of medicine by being translators of medical research. Despite this recognized role, physician-scientists in the United States have decreased from 5% of all physician workforce in 1987 to 1.5% in 2014. Why, in spite of their relevance, have physician-scientists become a rara avis in medical research? It is a comp...

Volume 14, Number 2 280 Interwoven are Mnookin’s investigations into cognitive science about the reliability of instinct and gut reaction—often cited by parents as reasons for not vaccinating their children. One author of this review read The Panic Virus as a student in an undergraduate public health microbiology course and found the book detailed yet readable. Worthwhile for students seeking a...