A while back I wondered how software developers’ concerns about security evolved over time. Obviously, studying under-the-hood changes would be a major research undertaking—and frankly beyond my interest. But mightn’t there be a feasible shortcut, a sort of poor man’s time-series analysis of security concerns? Behind this question was my speculation that the tightening user-controlled security ...

Fifteen years of apoptosis research have led to the widely accepted idea that the major form of programmed cell death in mammals proceeds via the mitochondria, and that mitochondrial control of apoptosis is regulated by a specialized family of proteins known as the Bcl-2 family. Here we will consider some very recent data that has shed new insight into the regulation of these proteins and the i...

The joint use of two tools applied to plant description, XPER3 and Recolnat Annotate , made it possible study vegetative architectural patterns (Fig. 1) the Dendrobium (Orchidaceae) in New Caledonia defined by N. Hallé (1977). This approach is not directly related taxonomy, but definition sets species grouped according a growth pattern. In course this work, characters stated were analysed event...