All's well that ends well: why large species have short telomeres

Telomeres and double-strand breaks - all's well that "ends" well. ...

Bailey, S. Telomeres and Double-Strand Breaks - All's Well that "Ends" Well. ... Radiat. Res. 169, 1-7 (2008). Sometimes one's life (including one's science) makes a lot more sense when viewed from the perspective of time, reflected back on over a number of years. That has indeed been the case for me. Strangely enough, the story begins with chromosomes and "ends" with telomeres, both at Colorad...

Owl's well that ends well.

Oil's well that ends well.

So there I was - 3am on a cold December morning walking around the pontoons of an oil rig, seawater swirling over my boots, torch in one hand, lead in the other and on the end of the lead.., a diver. How did this happen to a nurse and why wasn't I in a nice warm hospital?

"All's well that ends well" - a proposal of global abduction

This paper presents a new form of abduction called global abduction. Usual abduction in logic programming is used to complement unknown information and used in one derivation path in a search tree. We call this kind of abduction local abduction. In this paper, we propose another abduction which is used over paths in a search tree for search control. As far as we know, this is the first attempt ...

Why do some children of short stature develop psychologically well while others have problems?

The present paper addresses the question: why do some children of short stature develop psychologically well while others have problems? Based on the work of Wallander and Varni, a model is presented to illustrate risk as well as resistance factors that are important for children of short stature. It is suggested that important risk factors for the psychological adjustment of children of short ...