Delaying demise

Demise of the OTA.

Background: An impediment to the rational development of novel drugs against tuberculosis (TB) is a general paucity of knowledge concerning the metabolism of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, particularly during infection. Constraint-based modeling provides a novel approach to investigating microbial metabolism but has not yet been applied to genome-scale modeling of M. tuberculosis. Results: GSMN-TB...

The King's Demise

Delaying information search

In three studies, we examined factors that may temporarily attenuate information search. People are generally curious and dislike uncertainty, which typically encourages them to look for relevant information. Despite these strong forces that promote information search, people sometimes deliberately delay obtaining valuable information. We find they may do so when they are concerned that the inf...

Acquired Coagulation Inhibitor Delaying

A 14-yr-old girl with Down syndrome develimmune sera revealed that the inhibitor was oped a unique type of circulating inhibitor an immunoglobulin of lgG class with both causing a mild bleeding tendency and interand A determinants. Isolated inhibitor defering strongly with coagulation tests, includlayed the release of fibrinopeptide A from a ing reptilase time, and with the reaction of normal f...

The Demise of eAssessment Interoperability?

This paper examines progress made in the development of formats for the exchange of questions, tests and results. It is argued that despite large investments by vendors and educational bodies the specifications have not reached a critical mass of adoption and that this is because there is insufficient demand by users, particularly in higher education where the assessment process is strictly con...