A. S. Jack

S-adenosylmethionine: jack of all trades and master of everything?

SAM (S-adenosylmethionine, also known as AdoMet) is well known as the methyl donor for the majority of methyltransferases that modify DNA, RNA, histones and other proteins, dictating replicational, transcriptional and translational fidelity, mismatch repair, chromatin modelling, epigenetic modifications and imprinting, which are all topics of great interest and importance in cancer research and...

Jack S. Levy Applications of Prospect Theory to Political Science

Prospect theory is an alternative theory of choice under conditions of risk, and deviates from expected utility theory by positing that people evaluate choices with respect to gains and losses from a reference point. They tend to overweight losses with respect to comparable gains and engage in risk-averse behavior with respect to gains and risk-acceptant behavior with respect to losses. They al...

Review of Jack Russell Weinstein ’ s Adam Smith ’ s pluralism : rationality , education , and the moral sentiments

Jack Russell Weinstein's new book sets itself two major tasks: to argue that Adam Smith offers " a coherent philosophy of education that permeates his system " (p. 216) and that Smith's thinking is interestingly attuned to the very modern problem of pluralism. The first strand of argument seeks to provide a way of reading Smith that demystifies some of the remaining ambiguity across his oeuvre....

Lehman / s Switching Tutte and Game and a Theorem of Nash - Williams l Jack Edmonds

The results c ited in the title are unifi ed by th e following theore m: For a ny matroid M a nd any subse ts Nand K of e le me nts in M , there e xi s t as many as k disjoint subsets of N which span K a nd which spa n each ot he r if and only if the re is no contraction matroid M X A where NnA partitions int o as few as k se ts such th at eac h is independen t in M X A and suc h that at least ...

JACK: A Java Constraint Kit