France seeks rules

Lonely Arginine Seeks Friendly Environment

The recent perspectives on membrane protein insertion, protein–bilayer interactions, and amino acid side hydrophobicity (J. Gen. Physiol., 129:351–377) provide an excellent opportunity to return to the fundamental issue of the solvation of amino acids and their thermodynamic stability in different environments (Andersen, 2007). Though seemingly “solved” long ago, in recent years this issue has ...

Segregation That No One Seeks

This paper examines a series of Schelling-like models of residential segregation, in which agents prefer to be in the minority. We demonstrate that as long as agents care about the characteristics of their wider community, they tend to end up in a segregated state. We then investigate the process that causes this, and conclude that the result hinges on the similarity of informational states amo...

PKI Seeks a Trusting Relationship

All human co-operation is based on trust, meaning that we choose co-operation partners and make commitment decisions based on how much we trust the other party. Digital certificates and public-key infrastructures represent an attempt to mimic real-world human assessment of identity and trustworthiness in an automated and mechanical fashion, but present implementations are based on a very limite...

Collaborative effort seeks to curb hospital infections.

HOSPITAL-ACQUIREDINFECTIONSREmainapersistentproblem,affecting about 1 in 20 patients each year, according to estimates from the US Department of HealthandHuman Services.Butefforts to curb such infections have had mixed results. To achieve better results, 2 groups critical to the management of hospital-acquired infections—infection controlprofessionals, or infection preventionists (IPs), and lab...

Task force seeks solutions for "senior squalor".