eThis article draws upon the Roman Catholic distinction between "ordinary" and "extraordinary" means of medical treatment to analyze the case of "Jodie" and "Mary," the Maltese conjoined twins whose surgical separation was ordered by the English courts over the objection of their Roman Catholic parents and Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the Roman Catholic Cardinal Archbishop of Westminister. It attemp...

REVIEW COMMITTEE Todd ABRUZZO Tibor BECSKE Martin BENDZUS Zsolt BERENTEI Edoardo BOCCARDI Giuseppe BONALDI Allan BROOK Patrick BROUWER Winston CHONG Christophe COGNARD Orlando DIAZ Jens FIEHLER Gyula GÁL Pierre GOBIN Jan GRALLA Gábor JANIGA Ferenc KÖVÉR Timo KRINGS Zsolt KULCSÁR Luigi MANFRE Miklós MAROSFŐI Pereira VITOR MENDES Kieran MURPHY Mario MUTO Makoto NEGORO Darren ORBACH Santhosh RAJ G...

The paper introduces asymmetric production conditions between firms and asymmetric transaction conditions between countries into the Murphy-Shleifer-Vishny model of industrialization. It explores a general equilibrium mechanism that generates circular causation loop that each firm's profitability and its decision of involvement in a network of industrial linkages and trade flows is determined b...

The ability to image cells live and in situ as they proliferate and differentiate has proved to be an invaluable asset to biologists investigating developmental processes. Here, we describe a Spectrum of Fates approach that allows the identification of all the major neuronal subtypes in the zebrafish retina simultaneously. Spectrum of Fates is based on the combinatorial expression of differentl...

The field of computational complexity is reaching what could be termed middle age, with over forty years having passed since the first papers defining the discipline. With this metaphor in mind, the early nineteeneighties represented the end of adolescence for the area, the time when it stopped wondering what it would be when it grew up. During the childhood period of the sixties, research cent...

The extraembryonic membranes [5] that surround and originate from the embryos of vertebrates such as birds [6], reptiles, and mammals are crucial to their development. They are integral to increasing the surface area of the uterus [7], forming the chorion [8] (which in turn produces the placenta [9]) and the amnion [10], respectively. The amnion [10] will ultimately surround the embryo in a flu...

Hans Asperger studied mental abnormalities in children in Vienna, Austria, in the early twentieth century. Asperger was one of the early researchers who studied the syndrome that was later named after him, Asperger's Syndrome. Asperger described the syndrome in his 1944 publication Die Autistischen Psychopathen im Kindesalter (Autistic Psychopathy in Childhood). At that time, the syndrome was c...