The skin of fast-swimming sharks exhibits riblet structures aligned in the direction of flow that
are known to reduce skin friction drag in the turbulent-flow regime. Structures have been …

A number of studies suggested that cannabis use can cause or exacerbate psychoses and
may increase the risk of developing schizophrenia. These findings suggest that changes in …

There is now strong evidence of progressive neuropathological processes in bipolar disorder
(BD). On this basis, the current understanding of the neurobiology of BD has shifted from …

Human altruism is a widespread phenomenon that puzzled evolutionary biologists since
Darwin. Economic games illustrate human altruism by showing that behavior deviates from …

Gender differences in schizophrenia have been extensively researched and it is being
increasingly accepted that gonadal steroids are strongly attributed to this phenomenon. Of the …

This study applies nonlinear dynamic analyses to assess the risk of collapse of RC special
moment-frame (SMF) buildings to quantify the seismic safety implied by modern building …

We consider a stochastic variant of the NP-hard 0/1 knapsack problem, in which item values
are deterministic and item sizes are independent random variables with known, arbitrary …

Since the publication of the first Mutation Research Review of the genetic toxicology of
benzene~ toluene, xylenes and phenols in 1978 (Dean, 1978), a substantial number of …

OBJECTIVE: Multiple quantifiable biologic abnormalities have been localized to the
hippocampus in schizophrenia. Alterations in glutamate-mediated transmission at N-methyl-d-…

Although the neurotransmitter dopamine plays a prominent role in the pathogenesis and
treatment of schizophrenia, the dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia fails to explain all …