This paper investigates the performances of artificial neural networks approximation, the Translog and the Fourier flexible functional forms for the cost function, when different production technologies are used. Using simulated data bases, the author provides a comparison in terms of capability to reproduce input demands and in terms of the corresponding input elasticities of substitution esti...

Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University, 91120 Jerusalem, Israel Spanish National Cancer Institute (CNIO), Melchor Fernandez Almagro, 3, E-28029 Madrid, Spain Corresponding author. Tel: +972 2 675 7528; Fax: +972 2 675 7379; E-mail: [email protected] Corresponding author. Tel: +34 917 328 000; Fax: +34 912 246 980; E-mail: [email protected] Corresponding author...

Jin Soo Kim, Ji Yeon Kim, Sang-Jeon Lee1, Dong Kook Park2, Hwan Namgung2, Chang Nam Kim3, Won Jun Choi4, Moo Jun Baek5 Department of Surgery, Chungnam National University School of Medicine, Daejeon, 1Department of Surgery, Chungbuk National University School of Medicine, Cheongju, 2Department of Surgery, Dankook University College of Medicine, Cheonan, 3Department of Surgery, Eulji University ...

The original version of this article unfortunately contained incorrect corresponding author. corrected author is presented above.

aspergillus spp. are ubiquitous saprophytic fungi that cause a variety of diseases, ranging from hypersensitivity reactions to flulike pneumonia and life-threatening invasive aspergillosis. as the lung is the primary site of initial infection with airborne conidia, we investigated the innate immune responses of bronchial epithelial cells against different forms of aspergillus spp.

The corresponding author (Amy J. Wagers) and the journal wish to retract the 1 August 2008 paper cited above. Based on information discovered by the corresponding author after publication and reported by her to the journal in August 2010, which is now confirmed by a subsequent institutional investigation, this paper was found to contain duplicated data and other inappropriate manipulations. The...

Why do we age? This question has baffled scientists for 150 years and remains unresolved. Scientists disagree over even the general nature of aging. Is aging the result of fundamental limitations that apply to all living things, do we age because our bodies do not try harder not to age, or are organisms designed by nature or " programmed " to age because a limited life span conveys some evoluti...

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