This work investigates fluid mechanical processes involving movement of shock waves inside channels. In particular, the prediction and control of shock motion in intakes is of great importance to high-speed flight and future spacecraft engines--it is a fundamental problem whose…

Research on suicidal behaviors from non-Western countries is limited, and knowledge from Western studies may not be suitable for developing appropriate intervention strategies in other cultures. An understanding of the sociocultural context within which suicidal behaviors take place can provide…

Biochemical regulatory networks are involved in many essential processes of life, such as maintaining homeostatic conditions, cell-cycle division, and responding to environmental stimuli. Such networks contain a staggering degree of complexity, inhibiting our ability to understand how they function. Two…

The urogenital system performs essential functions for life and reproduction in all vertebrate species. In humans, congenital malformations of the urogenital system rank among the most common birth defects and can cause life-threatening complications in adults. Therefore, understanding urogenital system…

The purpose of this study is to explore the theoretical foundation for conceptualizing information-sharing behavior and to develop a composite index or a global scale for measuring the overall level of information sharing in the context of supply chains. Specifically,…

This work generalizes the Liu and Elia dirty-paper coding scheme to include feedback channels with additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and intersymbol interference (ISI). An optimal scheme is derived which achieves lossless interference cancellation, performs arbitrarily close to the feedback…

This article explores commercial, academic, and national initiatives aimed at usingsequencing technologies to generate “actionable” genomic results that can beapplied to the clinical management of oncology patients. We argue that the term“actionable” is not merely a buzzword, but signals the…

Researchers and clinicians in the field of oncology have now entered the second decadeof targeted therapy, widely held to be a revolutionary new form of cancer therapyresearch. The present era is regarded as the end of brute empiricism: as laboratoryresearchers…

This article traces the history of research on resistance to drug therapy in oncology using scientometric techniques and qualitative analysis. Using co-citation analysis, we generate maps to visualize subdomains in resistance research in two time periods, 1975–1990 and 1995–2010. These…