Is Forest Restoration an End unto Itself or a Means to an End?

An End in Itself and a Means to Good Ends: Why Income Equality is Important

Means to an end

L ike some explorers, the bacterial protein PopZ is at home at the poles. Laloux and Jacobs-Wagner identify a novel mechanism that enables PopZ to collect at one pole as a bacterium prepares to divide (1). In a Caulobacter crescentus bacterium, PopZ accumulates at one end of the cell. Multiple PopZ molecules interweave, forming a mesh-like material that moors the bacterium’s DNA at that pole (2...

the aesthetic dimension of howard barkers art: a frankfurtian approach to scenes from an execution and no end of blame

رابطه ی میانِ هنر و شرایطِ اجتماعیِ زایش آن همواره در طولِ تاریخ دغدغه ی ذهنی و دل مشغولیِ اساسیِ منتقدان و نیز هنرمندان بوده است. از آنجا که هنر در قفس آهنیِ زندگیِ اجتماعی محبوس است، گسترش وابستگیِ آن با نهاد ها و اصولِ اجتماعی پیرامون، صرفِ نظر از هم سو بودن و یا غیرِ هم سو بودنِ آن نهاد ها، امری اجتناب ناپذیر به نظر می رسد. با این وجود پدیدار گشتنِ چنین مباحثِ حائز اهمییتی در میان منتقدین، با ظهورِ مکتب ما...

Gene body DNA methylation in plants: a means to an end or an end to a means?

Cytosine methylation is widely known for its role in silencing transposable elements and some genes in plants and mammals. However, whereas methylation of promoter sequences can lead to transcriptional repression, the function of gene body methylation remains elusive. This situation is particularly perplexing in the plant Arabidopsis, where many genes are methylated, specifically, over their bo...

End-to-end esophagojejunostomy versus standard end-to-side esophagojejunostomy: which one is preferable?

 Abstract Background: End-to-side esophagojejunostomy has almost always been associated with some degree of dysphagia. To overcome this complication we decided to perform an end-to-end anastomosis and compare it with end-to-side Roux-en-Y esophagojejunostomy. Methods: In this prospective study, between 1998 and 2005, 71 patients with a diagnosis of gastric adenocarcinoma underwent total gastrec...