The links between asthma and rhinitis are well characterized. The Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA) guidelines stress the importance of these links and provide guidance for their prevention and treatment. Despite effective treatments being available, too few patients receive appropriate medical care for both diseases. Most patients ...

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Replying to: F. Pérez-Miles, A. Panzera, D. Ortiz-Villatoro & C. Perdomo 461, 10.1038/nature08404 (2009)The data presented by Pérez-Miles et al. call into question the production of tarantula tarsal silk, but there remains substantive evidence that would seem to contradict their assertion that tarsal silk is solely due to abdominal silk ...

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This reply to Kobak's comments on my article on dogs as attachment figures addresses three issues in defining and assessing features of attachment figures. These include whether some features are more critical than other features, different ways of assessing safe haven as a critical feature of an attachment figure, and ...

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Replying to: R. Arculus, I. H. Campbell, S. M. McLennan & S. R. Taylor 459 10.1038/nature08077 (2009)Arculus et al. raise an important question regarding the use of terrestrial rock nomenclature to characterize extraterrestrial materials. Here the issue relates to the definition of 'andesite', and whether the felsic achondrite meteorites GRA ...

Seth Baum suggests that my claim that it is better never to come into existence "can readily be rejected not just out of reflexive distaste for the claim but also out of sound ethical reasoning". In my reply, I argue that Mr Baum fails to state accurately what my arguments ...

Engineering a circularly permuted GFP scaffold for peptide presentationMatthias Paschke, Christian Tiede, Wolfgang Höhne.Volume 20, Issue 5, Pages 367-378 (September/October 2007) DOI: 10.1002/jmr.844.The above paper was published with an incorrect affiliation of the co-authors. The correct address is as follows:Institut für Biochemie, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Monbijoustrasse 2a, D-10117 Berlin, Germany.

The author presents a report of the first meeting of the Brazilian Academy of Neurology, which took place in Curitiba, Paraná, 45 years ago, between June 30 and July 05, 1963. A total of 103 papers were presented in the scientific sessions, predominantly in the following sub-areas: epilepsy, brain neoplasia, ...

The International Society on Oxygen Transport to Tissue (ISOTT) was founded in April, 1973 by Drs. Duane F. Bruley and Haim I. Bicher. However, the roots of ISOTT go back to Drs. Christian Bohr and August Krogh. Dr. Bruley first wanted to sponsor an international symposium on oxygen transport to ...

The ninth international meeting of the European Laboratory Working Group on Diphtheria (ELWGD) and the first annual meeting of the Diphtheria Surveillance Network (DIPNET) was held in Vouliagmeni, Greece, in November 2006. The recognition of DIPNET as an established Dedicated Surveillance Network (DSN) by the European Commission (EC) was announced, ...

This perspectives article has been taken from a talk the author gave at the symposium in honor of Yvonne C. Martin's retirement, held at the American Chemical Society spring meeting in Chicago on March 25, 2007. The talk was intended as a somewhat lighthearted attempt to gaze into the future; ...

Here we provide a synopsis of the main clinical and research advances in clinical, epidemiological and biological dermatology that were presented at the meeting of the British Association of Dermatologists (BAD) held during 4-7 July 2006, in Manchester, U.K. Only the more important advances or summaries of findings are mentioned. ...

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This article discusses the difference in positionality between Japanese lesbians and Zainichi (literally, "resident in Japan") Korean lesbians. The author first presents a narrative written by a Zainichi Korean lesbian, in which she expresses her anger toward Japanese lesbians. Setting her narrative as a starting point, the author retraces the ...

Two recent meetings held on the west coast of the USA highlighted current work being done in the field of retrovirology and AIDS. The meetings, "The Twelfth West Coast Retrovirus Meeting" (Palm Springs CA; October 6-8, 2005), and the "Twenty-third Annual Symposium on Nonhuman Primate Models for AIDS" (Portland OR; ...

The Eleventh Annual Conference of the American Society for Neural Transplantation and Repair was held at the Sheraton Sand Key Resort in Clearwater Florida over a typically warm and sunny 4 days. The scientific programme was organised by Dr T Collier of Rush Presbyterian Medical Center and Dr P Bickford ...

The 45th Annual Meeting of the Italian Cancer Society (SIC), held at the Centro Congressi Giovanni XXIII in Bergamo, Italy on 9-12 November, 2003, attracted almost 400 participants. The Scientific Committee chaired by R Giavazzi (Mario Negri Institute, Bergamo) and the board of the Italian Cancer Society produced a packed ...

In a recent issue of this Journal Kim Atkins argued that Thomas Nagel's argument regarding a bat's phenomenal experience is important for understanding the value placed on patient autonomy in medical ethics. In this reply to her paper, I demonstrate that Atkin's argument (a) is based on her misinterpretations of ...

The decline in the interest in ethical theory is first outlined, as a background to the author's discussion of principlism. The author's own stance, that of a communitarian philosopher, is then described, before the subject of principlism itself is addressed. Two problems stand in the way of the author's embracing ...

The current author will explore the way we should think about the ethical implications of gun control in the United States today. The generating pedagogy will be: (1) an explication of worldview perspectives, personal and community as per the author's recently published writings; (2) a discussion of the worldviews of ...

The author describes the role of the actuary, the need for qualified actuaries and how to find them. Qualified actuarial help, in the form of a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA), is necessary to ensure the best outcome when setting annual premium rates and realistic budgets for self-funded ...

BACKGROUND: There have been different ethical approaches to the issues in the history of philosophy. Two American philosophers Beachump and Childress formulated some ethical principles namely 'respect to autonomy', 'justice', 'beneficence' and 'non-maleficence'. These 'four principles' were presented by the authors as universal and applicable to any culture and society. ...

The 16th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Biological Therapy (SBT) was held in the Natcher Auditorium on the campus of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. The meeting was organised on behalf of the society by J Wigginton MD and S Libutti MD from the ...

The Fifth Annual Meeting of the Japan Endocrine Pathology Society was held in September 2001. A highlight of the meeting was the participation of Japanese and American endocrine pathologists in a conference to consider the topic "The Determination of Clinical Outcomes for Parathyroid Carcinomas by Histological Evaluation of Invasive Growth." ...

The 8th International Coccidiosis Conference, held on 9--13 July 2001 in Palm Cove, Australia, was a showcase of the latest studies on widely known coccidia, including Eimeria and Toxoplasma in addition to the emerging or re-emerging parasites such as Neospora, Cryptosporidium and Cyclospora. This meeting was staged in conjunction with ...

The 10th International Mutation Database Initiative Meeting was held on April 19, 2001, in conjunction with the annual Human Genome Meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland. Key points of the meeting are described here. The BiSC WayStation was presented as an operational, viable beginning to the solution for the lack of centralized ...

Following his attendance at the ICMART meeting, in Myasaki in 1988, the author, a BMAS member, resolved to revisit Japan. He found that acupuncture was widely practised throughout the country; although the patients were in the main elderly. The range of techniques used ranged from TCM to western, and broadly ...

As the external evaluator of the Collaborative Evaluation Fellows Project (CEFP), the author describes how the CEFP model is applied to the program's own evaluation and presents early findings, mostly based on the 14 studies conducted in the first year of implementation. Outcomes, benefits, and design and implementation issues are ...

This paper gives a brief description of the recently formalized International Mass Spectrometry Society (IMSS). It is presented here in order to increase awareness of the opportunities for collaboration in mass spectrometry in an international context. It also describes the recent 15th International Mass Spectrometry Conference, held August/September 2000, in ...

The 14th European Immunology Meeting--EFIS 2000, held in Poznan, Poland on 23-27 September 2000, was the last major meeting of European immunologists in the second millennium. This conference was intended to summarise past achievements and to present future prospects in immunology. The philosophy of the scientific program was to fuse ...