Getting Good or Getting Well?

Getting good reception.

The human brain contains hundreds of billions of neurons and connections, all busily engaged in transmitting the specialized electrical messages that allow the mind and body to sense and respond to the myriad stimuli encountered each moment of every day. In the NIEHS Laboratory of Signal Transduction, scientists study the mechanisms by which environmental agents disrupt these neural pathways, t...

Getting a good night's sleep.

Getting vaccinated or not getting vaccinated? Different reasons for getting vaccinated against seasonal or pandemic influenza

BACKGROUND A large number of studies have investigated the motivation behind health care workers (HCWs) taking the influenza vaccine. But with the appearance of pandemic influenza, it became important to better analyse the reasons why workers get vaccinated against seasonal and/or pandemic influenza. METHODS Three main categories of reasons were identified with an Exploratory Factor Analysis....

Getting off to a good start.

This article examines the origins of interorganizational endorsements in the context of firms undergoing an initial public offering (IPO). We propose that the affiliations associated with the career histories of a firm’s upper echelon, including its managing officers and board members, send important signals to external parties who are evaluating the quality of young firms. Such signals are cri...

Getting a fix on good governance.