Have you ever suffered discrimination because you used secondary data in your research? Since the principal area of research for this article’s three authors involves the development and application of techniques for using secondary data, our answer is definitely no. However, we frequently hear complaints by colleagues who have encountered barriers to developing their theses or obtaining resear...

A parallel of education with transformative processes in standard markets suggest that a more severe control of the quality of the output will improve the overall quality of the education. This paper shows a somehow counterintuitive result: an increase in the exam diffculty may reduce the average quality (productivity) of selected individuals. Since the exam does not verify all skills, when its...

Osteoporosis is a condition that is associated with an increased susceptibility for fractures. In the past few years, several drugs have become available that can reduce the incidence of fractures in patients with osteoporosis. Since these drugs work through different cellular mechanisms, combining agents of different classes may have an additive or multiplicative effect on fracture risk reduct...

Whether a morning cup of joe keeps your partner happily alert or nervously jittery may depend on how much caffeine is consumed. While not definitively causal, a number of studies have shown a dose-dependent relationship between excess caffeine consumption and stress, anxiety, and depression. This relationship?s direction could go either or both ways; that is, excess caffeine consumption might e...

The dynamics of silence and remembrance in Australian writer Lily Brett’s autobiographic fiction Things Could Be Worse reflects the crisis of memory and understanding experienced by both first and second-generation Holocaust survivors within the diasporic space of contemporary Australia. It leads to issues of handling traumatic and transgenerational memory, the latter also known as postmemory (...

Tumor suppressors block the development of cancer and are often lost during tumor development. Papa et al. show that partial loss of normal PTEN tumor suppressor function can be compounded by additional disruption caused by the expression of inactive mutant PTEN protein. This has significant implications for patients with PTEN gene mutations.

Sexual disinhibition is recognised as one of the behavioural and psychiatric symptoms of dementia (BPSD) and is a common reason for referral to old age psychiatric services. These referrals often come from care homes and sexual disinhibition can be a reason for seeking alternative placement for a resident. Sexual disinhibition is reported in 7% of Alzheimer’s disease sufferers (Burns et al, 199...

Genome sizes vary enormously. This variation in DNA content correlates with effective population size, suggesting that deleterious additions to the genome can accumulate in small populations. On this view, the increased complexity of biological functions associated with large genomes partly reflects evolutionary degeneration.