Death strip becomes nature preserve

Death becomes her

Most cancer treatments exploit the hypersensitivity of rapidly dividing tumor cells to DNA damage, largely reflecting problems with replicating damaged DNA templates. Many cancer chemotherapeutics directly damage DNA, and most types of DNA damage block replication forks. Other classes of chemotherapeutics include antimetabolites that reduce nucleotide pools and starve DNA polymerases or directl...

When nurture becomes nature: ethnocentrism in studies of human development.

This commentary will extend the territory claimed in the target article by identifying several other areas in the social sciences where findings from the WEIRD population have been over-generalized. An argument is made that the root problem is the ethnocentrism of scholars, textbook authors, and social commentators, which leads them to take their own cultural values as the norm.

nature of death, death-awareness and meaning of life

death has been and is the most important problem of human being throughout the history. every man is innately in the pursuit of immortality, life and well-fare as they also hate destruction and annihilation. this problem as well as related views and analyses of the true nature of death, the elements of reducing the dread of death have all direct effect on meaningfulness of life. whether or not ...

Odonates at the Clark County Wetlands Nature Preserve: A look at habitat and relative abundance

Addressing Map Interface Usability: Learning from the Lakeshore Nature Preserve Interactive Map

Initial submission, March 27, 2008; final acceptance, May 20, 2008. INTRODUCTION These are exciting days for cartography, as emerging technologies have greatly expanded the possibilities of online, interactive maps. These developments, however, now require cartographers to think about issues that only a few years ago fell solely in the domains of human-computer interaction (HCI) and web design....