Together with a few recent publications a number of the online Journal of Art Historiography (June 6, 2012) dedicated to “Islamic Art Historiography” offers a glimpse at the debates that since roughly a decade stir up Islamic art studies as they are practiced in the West. These debates concern the conceptual framework used to both investigate and show in public i...

Recent advances in cardiac physiology identify the integrin-linked kinase (ILK) as an essential molecule regulating cardiac growth, contractility, and repair. A key transducer of biochemical signals initiated at the plasma membrane by cell-matrix interactions, ILK now emerges as a crucial player in mechanotransduction by integrins. Animal models have been particularly instructive in dissecting ...

Research on the interaction of nature and nurture now spans nearly a century. (Throughout this article, ‘the interaction of nature and nurture’ or just ‘interaction’ is used to refer to the population-level phenomenon wherein different hereditary/genotypic/genetic groups respond differently to various environmental exposures. I will not be discussing individual-level processes, such as various ...