… He and Kluwer welcomed the idea, and it was decided I should act as Guest Editor. After
a careful reviewing process, we ended up with the papers contained in this special issue. …

… than the beam depth of focus) having n 2 < 0 well in front of the … of n 2 apparent from a Z
scan, but the magnitude of n 2 can … is expressed in terms of nonlinear indices n 2 (esu) through …

We have developed novel nucleic acid probes that recognize and report the presence of
specific nucleic acids in homogeneous solutions. These probes undergo a spontaneous …

The advantages which have been derived from the caution with which hypothetical
statements are admitted, are in no instance more obvious than in those sciences which more …

OBJECTIVE: The clinical hallmark of schizophrenia is psychosis. The objective of this
overview is to link the neurobiology (brain), the phenomenological experience (mind), and …

The human genome encodes approximately 100,000 different genes, and at least partial
sequence information for nearly all will be available soon. Sequence information alone, …

… Injuries were categorized according to the AIS (Table I) modified for the present study in
two respects. First and most important, we did not use the AIS codes 6 through 9, which are …

… Since this ratio is correlated with T30, and T30 is the primary criterion used in selecting
materials in an acoustic design for a given hall volume, T30 as a function of hall volume is the …

… Given that the order of traversing these links makes no difference, we can identify a shortest
path from i to j with two signed integers ms and m\9 where \ms\ is the number of skip links …

… Two micrograms of total RNA was reverse transcribed in a final volume of 50 μL using
the High-Capacity cDNA Archive Kit (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA), and single-strand …