Accessing Ventral Intradural Cysts Via Cord Splitting
“The physician must … have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm” (Hippocratic Corpus,…
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Pharmacognosy In The Digital Era
Human life has always depended on natural resources. Nature provides our housing, food, fragrances, and oils, and is our pharmacy. It remains the basis of…
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Ambient Air Temperature And Cognitive Performance
The earliest writings in history report the damaging and extreme impact of the thermal environment on human performance. The Bible has documented the death of…
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Economic And Energy-Efficient Nitrogen Removal From High Ammonia Strength Wastewater Using Algae, Bacteria, And Ion Exchange
With increasing pressure on natural resources and the need for clean water and sustainable and energy efficient technologies, wastewater treatment plants are pushed towards integration…
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How Asteroid Families Interact With Secular Resonances
Large asteroid families are usually the product of a collision between two bodies. Fragments of the parent body are ejected with terminal ejection velocities that…
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Using GPS Units To Understand Where Backpackers Travel In The Wilderness
Understanding visitor use in public parks is important for making decisions about how to best sustain both recreational activities and ecosystems. Specifically, knowing where visitors…
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The Paradox Of Portal Metastases In HCC Patients
Medicine, like other areas of human activity, is full of paradoxes. Unfortunately, paradoxes in medicine are often associated with wrenching cost – human lives. While…
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Straw Man Fallacy: Example Arguments
The straw man argument is an informal logical fallacy or rhetorical technique where someone creates a characterization of another person’s argument and then refutes that argument…
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Where Does Transcription Occur In Cells?
RNA transcription in eukaryotic organisms occurs in the nucleus of the cell where the cell’s DNA is located. In prokaryotic organisms that lack a membrane-bound nucleus,…
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Archaebacteria: Definition And Examples
Archaebacteria are similar in form to bacteria, but they are different from the normal bacteria that biologists often study. In fact, the differences between regular…
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Image Guided Photo-Excited TRAIL Synergistic Therapy
Tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) can induce apoptosis in cancer cells without sparing toxicity to normal cells.1 However, the efficiency is greatly limited by…
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