Atoms in Action (Harrison, George Russell)

The clotting action of Russell viper venom.

By SAMUEL I. RAPAPORT, KNIJT AAS ANI) PAUL A. OWREN T HE DE1\IONSTRATION of the thromboplastin-hike activity of Russell viper venom by Macfarlane and Barnett’ was followed by its use in some laboratories as a substitute for brain thromboplastin in “prothrombin time” determinations. However, it gradually became apparemit that there were importamit differences between the ‘thromboplastic” activit...

HEX Programs with Action Atoms

hex programs were originally introduced as a general framework for extending declarative logic programming, under the stable model semantics, with the possibility of bidirectionally accessing external sources of knowledge and/or computation. The original framework, however, does not deal satisfactorily with stateful external environments: the possibility of predictably influencing external envi...

Christian Evaluation and Moral Action in George Eliot’s Middlemarch

eorge Eliot’s legacy for modernism is worth considering on multiple grounds but especially in the context of religious belief and its influence on social morality. The comments of two early twentieth-century writers are suggestive of the mixed nature of her legacy. On the one hand, novelist Virginia Woolf (among the most strident critics of Victorian culture) famously said of Middle-march (1872...

Harrison 21_3

The expression of certain CD44 variants has been linked with metastasis and tumour progression. In particular, high molecular weight forms of CD44 show restricted expression in tumours and may correlate with tumour development and metastasis. In this study, we examined the expression of CD44 variants in prostate cancer cell lines: the invasive PC-3 and DU-145, low invasive LNCaP, and two non-in...

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