Universities occupy a privileged position in society, are privy to knowledge unavailable to others, and often provide the forum for discussions concerning values, justice, and ethics.
Thanks also to Denver Fowler, John Scannella, Jennifer Flight, Greg Wilson, Laura Wilson, and Ben Shoup for discussions concerning their thesis and dissertation data.
We thank Frank Weichold for advice and Gunilla Källenius for discussions concerning the choice of the MTB proteins.
We thank two anonymous reviewers whose comments greatly improved this manuscript, as well as C. Hamer for help in the lab, J. Crooks and J. Carlton for comments on previous drafts of this manuscript, and J. Carlton, N. Cosentino-Manning, and A. Cohen for discussions concerning this work.
The vMDT may be useful for discussions concerning rare or unusual tumours, or for helping guide the assessment and management of patients with uncommon complications related to treatment.
The reasoning elaborated by Simmons [ 80] led us to reject this perspective and is especially relevant for discussions concerning Shultz's [ 22] perception of convergence of results and the analyses presented here.
We would also like to specifically acknowledge R. Bowie, K. Goodman, M. Hadjistylli and E. Rubidge for discussions concerning the genetic methods and analyses; O. Putzeys, H. Ganz, and members of the Getz Lab for help collecting samples in the field; E. DeFranco and K. Hall for assistance in the laboratory.
We thank Jeffrey D. Orth for critical reading of the manuscript, Dr Maria Fuller for her discussion concerning iduronic acid and Hulda Haraldsdottir and Dr. Ronan M.T. Fleming for their inputs on thermodynamic constraints on metabolic reaction directionality.
We also thank Thomas Kaye and Mary Schweitzer for stimulating discussion concerning biofilm growth and tissues in fossil vertebrates, Lesley Rigg for assistance with statistical methods, Rosa Maria Leal-Bautista and Jean E. McLain for hospitality and field assistance, and Mark Howland and Vicki Brown for figure, table, and formatting assistance.
For a discussion concerning the matter of priority see Mitrinović [[4], p. 169].
For a discussion concerning the various kinds of rationality and the relations among them, see Moser (1985, 211 38); for an objection to this idea see Feldman (2000, 693 95).
