A Musician's Holiday

Death takes a holiday

control may kick in even before a kinetochore is assembled. The mitotic checkpoint— controlled by Mad1, Mad2, Bub1, BubR1, and Bub3— delays anaphase by inhibiting APC until all kinetochores are properly attached to the spindle. Because inhibition of Mad2 leads to an accelerated mitosis and a precocious anaphase, it has been assumed that the checkpoint itself also regulates mitotic timing. But M...

Holiday musings.

A M d his Editor’s Page is being written during the Christmas reak, a traditional period of family reunions, relaxation, ecreation, and reflection. It is often a time when people tep back and try to put the daily activities in which their ives are immersed into a broader perspective. In that spirit, thought I would share with you some of my musings uring this time. The first issue that occurred...

A critical care holiday poem.

Visual memory in musicians and non-musicians

Many investigations have reported structural, functional, and cognitive changes in the brains of musicians, which occur as a result of many years of musical practice. We aimed to investigate if intensive, long-term musical practice is associated with improved visual memory ability. Musicians and non-musicians, who were comparable in age, gender, and education, were submitted to a visual memory ...

A Typical Holiday Fortnight for Mental Defectives

The Green Lady Hostel, Littlehampton (reserved for several months by the C.A.M.W.) was occupied for a fortnight at the end of April by a group of 48 women of very varying ages, in the charge of three members of the C.A.M.W., in addition to the usual household staff of the Hostel. About half the holiday-makers were girls and women placed out under the Guardianship Scheme of the C.A.M.W., while t...