In the late 19th century, Karl Weierstrass invented a fractal-like function that was decried as nothing less than a “deplorable evil.” In time, it would transform the foundations of mathematics.

Stratum is a concept for loading and invoking stored procedures (in a database) from an application using automatically generated wrappers. The complete documentation of Stratum is available at https: ...

In this review, we discuss the role of epidermal mTOR signaling activity and function in skin, with a focus on skin barrier formation ... IFE can be distinguished into four layers: stratum basale (SB) ...

FIGURE 1. Illustration of nine-layer structure of skin tissue: stratum corneum (L1), stratum granulosum and stratum spinosum (L2), stratum basale (L3), papillary dermis (L4), subpapillary dermis (L5), ...