A skeptical look at dispositional reactance

A skeptical look at viral immune evasion.

In the past several years, many viral gene products have been found to encode proteins which interfere with immune defense mechanisms. Whether these interactions between virus and immune system components are actually evasion mechanisms used during viral infections in their natural hosts remains to be proven. In vitro studies do, however, reveal several tactics which may aid viral replication a...

A Further Look at the 'Reactance of a Parallel RLC Circuit'

We show that the maximum impedance of the parallel combination of a resistor , R an inductor L and capacitor , C studied in a previous paper can be found analytically, without using calculus. In fact, we show that the maximum impedance of this parallel combination is just the value of the resistor R and occurs when the driving frequency  is equal to 1/ . o LC   These results were only demons...

The Visible Problems of the Invisible Computer: A Skeptical Look at Information Appliances

The future is said to belong to information appliances, specialized and easy to use devices that will have the car tell the coffee pot to brew a cup of coffee just in time for our arrival home. These gadgets are supposed to eliminate the complexity and resulting frustrations of the PC. The thesis of this essay is that while information appliances will proliferate, they will not lessen the perce...

A Look at the Challenges of Boundary-Spanner Academic Leaders

The present study was an exploratory sequential mixed method approach, so the qualitative section of the study was done by descriptive phenomenology method. The participants in the qualitative section included academic administrators with managerial experience who by criterion sampling and saturation in the research findings, 12 were selected for the interview. Research tools in the section wer...

A Different Look at Peer-Reviewing of Articles