Bugs and Bragging Rights

Bragging rights and destination marketing: a tourism bragging rights model

In a study seeking to understand destination choice, focus group participants consisting of travellers, mentioned the importance of ‘bragging rights’. Additionally, tourism marketers when interviewed about destination choice also referred to bragging rights. An online search of ‘travel’, ‘tourism’ and ‘bragging rights’ revealed thousands of links. Despite this, bragging rights has received limi...

BRAGging about Mechanisms of Long-Term Depression

The mechanisms of long-term depression (LTD) underlie various aspects of normal brain function. Therefore, it is important to understand the signaling that underpins LTD. The study by Scholz et al. in this issue of Neuron describes how BRAG2, mGluRs, and AMPARs come together to produce LTD through AMPAR internalization.

Bugs versus bugs: probiotics, microbiome and allergy.

exposure to infections. Although exposure to infections may be one source of immune education, the most extensive interaction of the human body with microbes occurs within our own gut, which, in addition to being the site of greatest bacterial colonization, is also the largest lymphoid organ in the body. Over 40 years ago, it was reported that germ-free status resulted in spontaneous allergy an...

Good Bugs Vs . Bad Bugs

Control of micro-organisms during completion of hydraulically fractured wells is a significant component in successful development of a production system. Detrimental bacteria—“bad bugs”—such as sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) introduced into the reservoir during drilling or completion, can facilitate biogenic sulfide production, resulting in souring of production fluids and gas, iron sulfide f...

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