Despite dislocations: Uganda's Indians remaking home

Key Issues of Female Migration, Urban Relocation and Remaking Home

Remaking the heart

newly determined structure of a filament-forming protein from bacteria is eerily similar to that of eukaryotic actin. The bacterial protein, MreB, was known to affect cell shape in bacteria; Escherichia coli that lack MreB are spherical rather than rod-shaped. In March of this year, Jeffery Errington and colleagues (University of Oxford, UK) reported that filamentous helical A Actin (left) and ...

Robot Goes Back Home Despite All the People

We have developed a navigation system for a mobile robot that enables it to autonomously return to a start point after completing a route. It works efficiently even in complex, low structured and populated indoor environments. A point-based map of the environment is built as the robot explores new areas; it is employed for localization and obstacle avoidance. Points corresponding to dynamical o...

Remaking multiculturalism after 7/7

Such optimism would have struck some people as foolish at any time, but after the London bombings of 7 July and the abortive bombings of 21 July, it must strike many more as completely misguided. In particular, the fact that most of the individuals involved were born and/or brought up in Britain – a country that had given them or their parents a refuge from persecution, fear or poverty and a gu...

Remaking America's health-care system.

The momentum needed to repair the US healthcare system has fi nally arrived. President Barack Obama, making it this year’s domestic priority, has argued that “America cannot aff ord not to reform” its health-care industry since the country will otherwise go “the General Motors way”. An aff ordable, accessible, and portable health-care system, it is argued, will not only benefi t citizens but wi...