A 'hijacked' regulatory mechanism

Hijacked scientific journals: a warning to researchers

Hijacking of scientific journals consists of websites created by hackers in place of true academic journals for copying their names, addresses, impact factors and international publication numbers in order to steal scientific output and payment of fees charged for publication.(1) Today there is great pressure on researchers to publish their scientific results. Some journals publish for free and...

A Proposed Merchant-Regulatory Mechanism

We propose a merchant-regulatory framework to promote investment in the European natural gas network infrastructure based on a price cap over two-part tariffs. As suggested by Vogelsang (2001) and Hogan et al. (2010), a profit maximizing network operator facing this regulatory constraint will intertemporally rebalance the variable and fixed part of its two-part tariff so as to expand the conges...

Crk gets hijacked

The ulcer-inducing bacterium Helicobacter pylori busts through the cells that line the stomach by hijacking a host protein, suggest Suzuki and colleagues on page 1235. The co-opted protein turns on multiple signaling pathways in gastric cells that cause the normally adhesive cells to pull apart from their neighbors. Roughly half of all people worldwide have H. pylori living in their stomachs. M...

Authenticity and the hijacked brain.

A microRNA regulatory mechanism of osteoblast differentiation.

Growing evidence shows that microRNAs (miRNAs) regulate various developmental and homeostatic events in vertebrates and invertebrates. Osteoblast differentiation is a key step in proper skeletal development and acquisition of bone mass; however, the physiological role of non-coding small RNAs, especially miRNAs, in osteoblast differentiation remains elusive. Here, through comprehensive analysis...