The Future of Community Banks and Their Role in the Changing Economy

This paper is a survey of the current literature concerning community banks, the current challenges faced by community banks, and the role community banks play in the economy. Currently technological and regulatory changes are creating challenges for community banks. To combat these issues many community banks are increasing their merger and acquisition activity to avoid closing. This objective of this paper is to discuss the reasons community banks are so important to our economy and to define the hardships they are currently facing. It is also important to identify the next steps we should take to ensure the stability of community banks and how they will continue to play a role in the future. This paper will also give suggestions for future research in the community banking industry

A Bloody Yesteryear and a Brighter Tomorrow: Late Cold War Anti-Heroes in the 1980s Graphic Novels of Alan Moore and Frank Miller

The 1980s—the last decade of the Cold War between the West and the Soviet Union—was a time of great change in the medium of graphic literature. Among the writers who changed superhero comic books through such strategies as the adoption of the anti-hero concept were Alan Moore and Frank Miller. In Watchmen and V for Vendetta, Alan Moore presents his super anti-heroes as intellectuals whose missions are the transformation and disruption of a national status quo in order to foster a brighter future. In Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Daredevil: Born Again, Frank Miller presents his reinvented super anti-heroes as scions of a previous age (the World War II generation) who act as teachers and exemplars of violent resistance to the crime-ridden and uncertain reality of 1980s New York City—a time and place defined by financial crises and the omnipresent fear of nuclear annihilation. Taken together, these graphic novelists stand as examples of a specific time period in the development of the graphic literary art form

Severe delayed posttonsillectomy haemorrhage due to a pseudoaneurysm of the lingual artery

A 3.5-year-old child is presented with severe, recurrent haemorrhages after a tonsillectomy. The haemorrhages were caused by a pseudoaneurysm of the lingual artery, which was visualised more than 2 weeks postoperatively by angiography. The pseudoaneurysm was successfully embolised by coils. Coiling is an adequate therapeutic option for severe posttonsillectomy haemorrhage due to arterial damage

The imaging characteristics of odontogenic myxoma and a comparison of three different imaging modalities

OBJECTIVE. To report the imaging characteristics of odontogenic myxoma (OM) and compare the different imaging modalities used. STUDY DESIGN. The radiological images of 33OMcases were retrospectively analyzed. The radiographs were severally examined to describe the features of OM as seen on conventional radiographs (CRs), computed tomography (CT) scans, and magnetic resonance images (MRIs). RESULTS. MRI was effective in displaying the true extension and contents of OMs. CT scans demonstrated the extensions of OMs, expansion, growth pattern, and rendered it possible to compare density of OM with that of surrounding muscles. Assessment of CRs revealed great limitations about the diagnostic values and failed to display important features. Conclusions. All 3 radiographic techniques, conventional radiography, CT, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), have inherent advantages and disadvantages; however, all 3 should be routinely used in the diagnosis of OM. The results of CTand MRI can accurately reveal margins of tumors and greatly aid in diagnosis.Web of Scienc

Tissue microarray analysis of eIF4E and its downstream effector proteins in human breast cancer

Correction to Kleiner HE, Krishnan P, Tubbs J, Smith M, Meschonat C, Shi R, Lowery-Nordberg M, Adegboyega P, Unger M, Cardelli J et al: Tissue microarray analysis of eIF4E and its downstream effector proteins in human breast cancer. J Exp Clin Cancer Res 2009, 28:5