The last few years have witnessed an increase in democratic “backsliding” the United States—a decline quality of democracy, typically accompanied by influx non-normative behavior, such as political violence. Despite real consequences support for violence, fairly little is known about extremist attitude outside studies terrorism or aggression. Using a unique survey containing many psychological,...

In this article, we report results from a new study that surveyed a large, national sample of American adults about their willingness to pay for health reform. As in previous work, we find that self-identified Republicans, older Americans, and high-income Americans are less supportive of reform. However, these basic findings mask three important features of public opinion. First, income has a s...

The physiological functions of CD30 have not been fully elucidated. Here we show that in CD30-deficient mice (CD30(-/-)), lung inflammation is significantly diminished in the ovalbumin (OVA) model of airway hyperreactivity. In CD30(-/-) mice, the recruitment of eosinophils into the airways after OVA-aerosol challenge of OVA-primed mice was significantly diminished when compared with wild-type (...

Lattice supports single bilayer he spherical membrane surrounding the poxvirus genome begins to form as an open, cup-like structure. Some have argued that the edge of the cup must be composed of two closely apposed membranes (imagine a collapsed vesicle); otherwise, the hydrophobic edges of a single membrane would be exposed to the cytoplasm. But on page 269, John Heuser confirms that poxvirus ...

Macrophages are found in most tissues of the body, where they have tissue- and context-dependent roles in maintaining homeostasis as well as coordinating adaptive responses to various stresses. Their capacity for specialized functions is controlled by polarizing signals, which activate macrophages by upregulating transcriptional programs that encode distinct effector functions. An important con...

Integrated Care (INIC) organized a study visit for a group of 75 Europeans to Kaiser Permanente (KP) in San Francisco, USA. Kaiser Permanente is a care organization that encloses a health insurance company (''Kaiser''), primary health care doctors and medical specialists (''Permanente''), and hospitals (''Kaiser Hospital Trust''). These three divisions work closely together and are exclusive pa...

a series of sorbents containing various amounts of borate groups were prepared by chemical immobilization ofp-aminoethylphenylboric acid on a copolymer- treated organosilane spacer glass plates. it was found thatbaker's yeast cells selectively adhered to these supports. yeast cells stained with procion red he-3b formeddenser and more stable layer on the copolymer-grafted supports compared onto ...