This issue of Approaching Religion is dedicated to Terhi Utriainen, Professor the Study Religions at University Helsinki. It published on 7 November 2022, Terhi’s sixtieth birthday, and contains reflections research articles written by colleagues in Finland, UK Netherlands. All address theme rituals, which one special foci interest as a scholar religion. editorial first outlines academic career...

In this issue of Diabetes Care, Dr. David Sacks has nicely delineated the pros and cons of the measurements of glucose concentrations and A1C levels and the resulting effects on using each to diagnose diabetes (1). With the continued improvement in A1C assays, the balance seems to increasingly favor using A1C levels. This commentary will examine an issue that has received scant attention in the...

Down syndrome (DS) individuals present abnormalities in folate-homocysteine metabolism that is attributed to the additional copy of the Cystathionine β-synthase (CβS) gene located on chromosome 21. Therefore, the aim of the study was to estimate the plasma levels of folate and homocysteine (Hcy) and compare it with age and sex matched healthy controls. The results showed a significant decrease ...

We review and extend recent work on the application of the noncommutative geometric framework to an interpretation of the moduli space of vacua of certain deformations of N = 4 super Yang-Mills theories. We present a simple worldsheet calculation that reproduces the field theory results and sheds some light on the dynamics of the Dbrane bubbles. Different regions of moduli space are associated ...

ii DEDICATION Dedicated to my wife Sanju and my sons Vishnu and Arjun. You are the reasons why I smile, thank you for everything. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my thesis advisor, Shawn Levy as well as my advisory committee, for their wonderful guidance in this project as well as their very helpful advice both professional and beyond. I would like to thank the Department of Biomedic...