Thousands of women and children experience sexual assault trauma annually in South Africa. The challenge posed by recovery from sexual assault trauma is a reality that confronts the survivors of sexual assault, their families and the larger community of service providers. Yet, little research has been conducted on recovery from sexual assault as a phenomenon. The purpose of the study was to exp...

nasir khosrow embarks upon a seven year journey in order to come to terms with his spiritual crisis. the quest was the inevitable outcome of the tensions and conflicts between nasir and the institutionalized forms of power and knowledge. the tensions lead to the formation of a series of binary oppositions—verbal and nonverbal—within the text of his travelogue. the researchers have analyzed the ...

nasir khosrow embarks upon a seven year journey in order to come to terms with his spiritual crisis. the quest was the inevitable outcome of the tensions and conflicts between nasir and the institutionalized forms of power and knowledge. the tensions lead to the formation of a series of binary oppositions—verbal and nonverbal—within the text of his travelogue. the researchers have analyzed the ...

Intersubjective systems theory is the view that personal experience always emerges, maintains itself, and transforms in relational contexts. It is held for reasons of personal inclinations, philosophical belief, and clinical conviction. As a clinical sensibility, it primarily includes an emphasis on the emotional convictions or organizing principles that systematize experience, the personal eng...

Nearly 2 m of DNA is so tightly packaged that it fits neatly within the nucleus of each cell of our body. As if this was not mind-blowing enough, the problem is intensified in the male germline, as the nucleus of a sperm cell is about 6 times smaller than that of a somatic cell. Sperm are highly specialized cells charged with the sole responsibility of delivering the paternal genome to offsprin...

I am, of course, deeply aware of important contributions made by many colleagues and my friends throughout this long journey. The subject of the second section was carried out when I was in Japan and all the rest (35) has been performed in the United States of America. Since my journey into tunneling is still continuing, I do not come to any conclusions in this talk. However, I would like to po...

A high intake of industrially produced trans fatty acids (IP-TFA) is associated with increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), and a daily intake as low as possible is required to minimize health risks. To achieve this at the individual level in Denmark, legislation limited IP-TFA in foods to a maximum of 2% of fat content from 2004. We assessed the potential exposure of consumers to IP-T...

A surprising new mechanism that regulates the plasticity of postnatal neurons is reported in this issue by Sugiyama et al. (2008). These authors show in mice that visual experience triggers cell-to-cell transfer of the homeoprotein Otx2 to cortical interneurons, where it promotes maturation of inhibitory neural circuitry and opens the critical period for plasticity in the visual cortex.

In this case study, an early-career electrical engineer interviews an established translational biomedical engineer. The discussion covered topics such as challenges associated with the merging of fundamental engineering science with the pursuit of clinically informed research, how best to train engineering students for future innovation, and how to establish international partnerships.

The genome sequences completed so far contain more than 20 000 genes with unknown function and no similarity to genes in other genomes. The origin and evolution of the orphan genes is an enigma. Here, we discuss the suggestion that some orphan genes may represent pseudogenes or short fragments of genes that were functional in the genome of a common ancestor. These may be the remains of unsucces...