dr. bruce alberts, editor-in-chief of science magazine, and professor emeritus at the university of california, san francisco (ucsf), presented a popular and thought-provoking talk to the participants of the global young academy general assembly in pretoria, south africa, on may 21 2012. professor alberts has kindly agreed to the publication of some of the ideas he addressed in the future of me...

Accepted for publication 5 July 1990 It is a delight to reflect on one of the truly great medical men of this century. Although I did not have the pleasure of meeting Sidney Dyke until the mid 1940s, I had been well tutored about his existence and his unique abilities by several senior colleagues. These included Frederick Hill, physician to Bruntcliffe Isolation Hospital, Morley, Georgina Bonse...

this study aims at investigating the effectiveness of utilizing barley as a flushing ration with an energizing source and soybean meal-based diets as a flushing ration with a protein source the sexual and breeding behaviors in ghezel sheep. to this end, 36 three and half-year old ewes (51±1.5 kilograms) with the record of giving birth to two lambs and 6 three-year old (89±2.5 kilograms) rams we...

Arguably, the Moroccan academic writing stratosphere has long been understudied. Such oversight is particularly discerning given how beneficial these studies can be for L2 writers of English. To this end, using Hyland’s (2005) metadiscourse framework, current research interactional practices in a small corpus 15 applied linguistics article abstracts. These were collected from two Moroccan-based...

The 2005 Symposium on Self-Stabilizing Systems (SSS 2005) took place October 26 and 27, 2005, in Barcelona, Spain. The proceedings of the Symposium are published in the Springer Lecture Notes on Computer Science Series, as Volume 3764. In addition to the presentations contained in the proceedings, there were five short presentations in a “poster session” on 26 October. Two of the presenters kin...

Supplemental Experimental Procedures Plasmids The N-terminal and C-terminal fragments of Claspin were separately amplified by RT-PCR using a cDNA library generated from HEK293T cells. The two RT-PCR products were sequentially inserted into pcDNA3.1-HA tag to obtain a plasmid containing full-length Claspin. Claspin mutants were generated using the QuickChange Site-directed Mutagenesis kit (Strat...

Professor W Ian McDonald, an ambassador for British neurology, a world authority on multiple sclerosis and a musician, died suddenly on 13 December 2006. He was a friend to many in all walks of life and was a valued member of the Editorial Board. We had made plans together for a series of articles in the Journal on music, medicine and the mind. His co-editor, Dr Jason Warren, has kindly agreed ...

J. Ma, J. Wu, and Q. Cheng kindly pointed out that [1, Proof of Proposition 1(b)] contains an overcount. The statement of the proposition reads: Let n be the family of bases for with all basis elements constrained to be binary n-tuples; (i.e., E = fe1; e2; . . . ; eng 2 n if, and only if, e1, e2; . . . ; en 2 f 1;+1g are linearly independent [over the field of the reals]). Then, asymptotically ...