On the basis of copious preclinical data supporting the preventive efficacy of small fruits such as berries and grapes, Chen and colleagues conducted a randomized (noncomparative) phase II trial evaluating two doses of strawberry powder (60 g/d or 30 g/d for six months) to prevent esophageal cancer in China (reported in this issue of the journal, beginning on page 41); 60 g/d reduced the histol...

This paper explores new ways of doing input to and output from TEX. These new ways bypass our current habits, and provide fresh opportunities. Usually, TEX is run as a batch program. But when run as a daemon, TEX can be part of an interactive program. Daemons often that run forever, or at least for a long time. Hence the title of this paper. Usually, parsing and transformation of the input data...

We analyze time-costly decision-making in committees by privately informed individuals, such as juries, panels, boards, etc. In the spirit of the Coase Conjecture, we show that the decision is ‘almost instantaneous’ when individuals entertain identical objectives. Delay can only be understood as the outcome of conflicting (biased) objectives.

one of the most important concepts in financial statement analysis and evaluation is conservatism. thus recognition of the factors which influence conservatism can considerably help the investor in managing the selection of more conservative assets properly and avoiding the untrue exposure of financial statements. this research is about to consider the relation of effective factors on organizat...

I arrived home from work to find my husband uncharacteristically sitting at the dining room table, waiting for me to walk through the door. He said, “Sweetheart, I think there is something wrong with me.”My heart dropped as I noticed the left-sided Horner syndrome that had developed overnight and as I watched his face turn bright red when he lifted his left arm. He complained that the left side...