Naming birds accurately is part of being passionate about defending nature

Rebecca Heald: Passionate about cycles

W hen she isn't cycling up a mountain, Rebecca Heald is blazing new trails in cell biology. Her work on dynamic cytoskeletal structures involved in mitosis and meio-sis—particularly the microtubule-based mitotic spindle—has continually set the pace in her fi eld. After completing her graduate studies on nuclear lamins in Frank McKeon's laboratory at Harvard (1), Heald sought a change of scenery...

Dominique Bergmann: Passionate about plant polarity

Seeing the forest, Naming the Trees: Visuality and Knowledge Production About “Nature” in Madagascar

This paper explores representations of ―nature‖ in the context of struggles over natural resources in Madagascar. I focus on the visually-informed representations of this concept and how it has been used to legitimate specific claims to land and natural resources. In particular, I argue that these representations contributed to a neo-liberal partnership around natural resource extraction and co...

Pnm-15: Studying about The legal nature of Embryo donation

Background: Embryo donation is one of the methods of infertility treatment. With this way, Infertile couples use a donated Embryo formed from an egg of another woman and the sperm of another man. The embryo is then placed into the woman’s womb. In order to determine the legal nature of embryo donation, a comparison has been made between this legal institution and those mentioned in our Civil La...

Passion and personality: Is passionate behaviour a function of personality ?

Introduction. – Passion as a concept but also as a way of life seems to generate an ever-growing interest among researchers and even employers. The Dualistic model of Passion (Vallerand et al., 2003) has suggested that passion could take two distinct forms: harmonious or obsessive passion. However, the debate still remains open on the factors (contextual or dispositional) that are likely to inf...