Candida albicans causes a wide variety of infections but can readily be isolated from the skin and mucosa of healthy individuals. To enable high-resolution epidemiologic studies on this common pathogen, a species-specific DNA probe has been isolated from its genome. There are approximately equal to 10 copies of the sequence dispersed among the chromosome-sized DNA molecules resolved by pulsed-f...

This article analyzes trust in public institutions. In both theoretical literature and empirical research, a link between social trust and institutional trust has been established. Specifically, this paper casts additional light on this relationship. Moreover, it tests whether institutional trust is dependent on citizens’ perceptions of how well institutions live up to normative expectations he...

We introduce the problem of referential creativity: how it is that a person can give a word or phrase a new denotation even though she has never heard or used in that way before. Using real examples that we have collected, we focus on the case of semantic type coercion, where a phrase of a given type is used in a textual context that requires a completely different type yet the intended message...