It is evident that human male and female children differ in their outcomes following infectious challenge and vaccination. This chapter explores some of the evidence for this in children <5 years of age, which is the age group that suffers the greatest morbidity and mortality from infections, and...
Endometriosis is a heritable hormone-dependent gynecological disorder, associated with severe pelvic pain and reduced fertility; however, its molecular mechanisms remain largely unknown. Here we perform a meta-analysis of 11 genome-wide association case-control data sets, totalling 17,045 endometriosis c...
John Warwick Montgomery. I posted a brief eulogy myself soon after his passing, but I thought it worthwhile to provide a fuller account of the great scholar and apologist’s life and of why it was important. No one is in a better position to provide it than Col. Gordon. In Memoriam ...
Below Zero by Dan Smith Adults sometimes worry that horror novels are too scary for children, but children’s authorJennifer Killickis a fan. Here she picks out five fantastic horror books for 9-12 year olds and explains that in addition to the sheer fun of reading a thriller, horror book...
Last month, the Republican National Committee sent a letter to Montgomery County, Pa., demanding that itcease distributing mail ballots, claiming that the ballots have not undergone required logic and accuracy testing. In Connecticut, after alleged ballot harvesting occurred during the September prima...
Anderson and Sleap, who used the same instrument (i.e. BTRSPI), found that the Team Worker role was preferred by twice as many women as men [16]. Similarly, Wilhelmsson et al. found that female medical students displayed more positive beliefs toward teamwork than their male counterparts [...
Phytosterol serum concentrations are under tight genetic control. The relationship between phytosterols and coronary artery disease (CAD) is controversially discussed. We perform a genome-wide meta-analysis of 32 phytosterol traits reflecting resorption,
1) I’m a public policy economist in Washington. I’ve been a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, a Senior Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, an economist for Senator Bob Packwood and the Senate Finance Committee, and a Director of Tax and Budget Policy at Citizens for a Sound Economy....
We settled on a quarter-wavelength antenna combined with a ground plane composed of four quarter-wavelength wires in a cross shape running in the plane of the ground, originating from just below the point at which the antenna connects to the Nanode's printed circuit board. Measuring whole-...
University of California, Davis.Montgomery, Thoeung Mim.University of California, Davis.