“There's never been a better time to be an immunologist. The entire world is acutely aware of the expertise and value we bring help solve some world's most pressing health problems”, says Faith Osier, who at start 2021 became Executive Director Human Immunology Laboratory non-profit scientific research organisation IAVI, based Imperial College London, UK. There, Osier directs team researchers w...

Cultural memory of local artists and poets is typically cultivated through festivals devoted to these people usually by way of commemorations on the anniversaries of their deaths, and are held in places in which they lived and worked. These methods, however, are intangible and if not passed to next generations may be lost or forgotten. What is more, they do not help to protect from oblivion the...

This year Molecular Biology of the Cell is publishing two special issues, this award issue and a second “quantitative biology” issue. In the award issue, MBoC’s tradition of publishing essays by ASCB award winners continues. These highly accomplished individuals inspire us with engaging stories of their lives and careers and share with us their considerable wisdom. The diversity of the career p...

We develop and test a model of pseudotransformational leadership. Pseudo-transformational leadership (i.e., the unethical facet of transformational leadership) is manifested by a particular combination of transformational leadership behaviors (i.e., low idealized influence and high inspirational motivation), and is differentiated from both transformational leadership (i.e., high idealized influ...

TECHNOLOGY has rendered accounting obsolete. Recognition and acceptance of this fact are necessary if accountants are to make meaningful change, rather than fritter away their limited resources trying to repair the creaking, sagging, old machine. Presumably, if accountants had been assigned the job of landing man on the moon, we would still be earthbound while they continued to tinker with an o...

Our referees, the Editorial Board Members and ad hoc reviewers, are busy, serious individuals who give selflessly of their precious time to improve manuscripts submitted to Microbial Biotechnology. But, once in a while, their humour (or admiration) gets the better of them. Here are some quotes from reviews provided during 2010, to induce a light-hearted start to 2011. • During the holidays I wa...

social capital is a component in the field of management and behavioral and sciences and philosophical and inspirational views especially in holy books studied in recent century in the field of human life philosophy and management sciences as an inspirational topic. in present paper which addresses to two inspirational and scientific (managerial) aspects), we have tried to consider it in philos...

The task of image generation started receiving some attention from artists and designers, providing inspiration for new creations. However, exploiting the results deep generative models such as Generative Adversarial Networks can be long tedious given lack existing tools. In this work, we propose a simple strategy to inspire creators with generations learned dataset their choice, while control ...