McGoogan, Jennifer M., and Vincent M. Cassone. Circadian regulation of chick electroretinogram: effects of pinealectomy and exogenous melatonin. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R1418–R1427, 1999.—Melatonin is an important component of the avian circadian system. This study investigates the effects of pinealectomy (Pin-X) and melatonin implantation (Mel) on electr...

Heme-copper oxidases terminate the respiratory chain in many eukaryotes and prokaryotes as the final electron acceptors. They catalyze the reduction of molecular oxygen to water, and conserve the free-energy by proton pumping across the inner mitochondrial membrane or plasma membrane of bacteria. This leads to the generation of an electrochemical gradient across the membrane, which is utilized ...

purpose: to evaluate the success rate of strabismus surgery with both adjustable and non-adjustable suture technique, moreover,also compared the success rate of these methods regardless of cause, type and amount of deviation is aand history of previous surgery. methods: in this study 296 patients were included (fromduring 2003 to 2011). patients divided in two groups; strabismus surgery with ad...

Cytoplasmic ATP and Ca are implicated in current models of glucose’s control of glucagon and insulin secretion from pancreatic aand b-cells, respectively, but little is known about ATP and its relation to Ca in a-cells. We therefore expressed the fluorescent ATP biosensor Perceval in mouse pancreatic islets and loaded them with a Ca indicator. With total internal reflection fluorescence microsc...

AN abnormal personality is one which deviates from its appropriate personality norm. Psychopathic personalities constitute a subgroup of abnormalpersonali-ties. Schneider (quoted by Kahn, 1931) has defined psychopathic personalities as those abnormal personalities who suffer from their abnormality or from whose abnormality society suffers. This definition points to a cleavage within the group w...

In our paper we discuss the existence of narcissism as instinct; a Mendelian trait that can be inherited from either parent. This instinct is an essential component of five different personalities in our model and these personalities can be classified into two groups: Narcissistic and Obsessive. How these personalities manifest in individuals and how the individual interacts with the healthcare...

Effective teams are crucial for organisations, especially in environments that require teams to be constantly created and dismantled, such as software development, scientific experiments, crowd-sourcing, or the classroom. Key factors influencing team performance are competences and personality of team members. Hence, we present a computational model to compose proficient and congenial teams bas...