Ethical Challenges, in my experience, is invariably interesting, often instructive and sometimes amusing. Some of the most engaging stimulus scenarios raise thorny evaluation practice issues that ultimately lead to disparate points of view about the nature of the issue and how to handle it (Datta, 2002; Smith, 2002). Despite my poor performance at the tables at the 2003 AEA conference in Reno, ...

The article in this issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases by Beatty et al. [1] on an outbreak of diarrhea due to enterotoxi-genic Escherichia coli (ETEC) further documents the emergence of ETEC as a significant diarrheal pathogen in the United States. The main contribution of the article by Beatty and colleagues is that it describes one of the largest foodborne outbreaks ever reported in the Un...

Knowledge about sexual segregation and gender-specific, or indeed individual specialization, in marine organisms has improved considerably in the past decade. In this context, we tested the "Intersexual Competition Hypothesis" for penguins by investigating the feeding ecology of Gentoo penguins during their austral winter non-breeding season. We considered this during unusual environmental cond...

BACKGROUND Excess fat consumption has been linked to the development of obesity. Fat and salt are a common and appetitive combination in food; however, the effect of either on food intake is unclear. Fat taste sensitivity has been negatively associated with dietary fat intake, but how fat taste sensitivity influences the intake of fat within a meal has, to our knowledge, not yet been investigat...

, en young and indulgent wife presented me with a lpthday gift of a dozen woodcarving tools. On reflection, Perhaps it was the production of a primitive Spitfire from selected pieces of grandfather's firewood at the age of nine, which first stimulated my enthusiasm. Whatever he start my interest has grown over the years and continue to take pleasure from the combination of Craftmanship and arti...

Effective on January 1, 1998, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) amended the standards to identify several enriched grain products, bromated flour, vegetable macaroni and vegetable noodle products by requiring folic acid fortication. Specifically, the FDA required that these products be fortified with folic acid levels ranging from 0.43 to 1.4 mg/pound or 95 to 309 mg/100 g of product. Alth...

www.BioTechniques.com 19 Vol. 53 | No. 1 | 2012 The papaya platter was a mistake. On a hot afternoon in June, my family sat down to sample three dishes. Raspberry and kalamata olive tapenade with lemon zest and balsamic vinegar on crostini with prosciutto; chunks of papaya sprinkled with freshly grated Parmesan cheese and seared with a torch; and Oregon bleu cheese chocolate cake topped with a ...

The popular social networking site, Facebook, recently launched a facial recognition tool to help users tag photographs they uploaded to Facebook. This generated significant controversy, arising as much as anything, from the company’s failure to adequately inform users of this new service and to explain how the technology works. The incident illustrates the sensitivity of facial recognition tec...