Digestible Bread and Newspaper Fakes

Art Fakes – What Fakes?, An Economic View

An economic analysis of fakes differs substantially from the legal and the art historic views which both tend to propose repressive policies against imitations. But there are large economic benefits from copying. In particular, the "propagation effect" yields utility to both consumers and creators of the original. In contrast, the harmful effects of fakes are small and are mitigated by emerging...

Non-specific binding of antibodies in immunohistochemistry: Fakes and facts

Bread and Circuses

In the past, too little thought has been given to the relationship of culture to play. That the forms of play have varied with different cultural epochs is often forgotten; even more rarely mentioned is the idea that culture arises in the form of play, and play needs to be born. This is the main thesis of Professor Huizinga's important and absorbing book, Homo Ludens.1 He argues that culture is...

Digestible indispensable amino acid score and digestible amino acids in eight cereal grains.

To determine values for the digestible indispensable amino acid score (DIAAS), it is recommended that ileal amino acid (AA) digestibility values obtained in growing pigs are used to characterise protein quality in different foods. Therefore, an experiment was conducted to determine the standardised ileal digestibility (SID) of AA in eight cereal grains (yellow dent maize, Nutridense maize, dehu...

Bread and Dirt