Editorial: Familiarity and Surprises

Editorial comment Genetics and molecular biology: peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor g still full of surprises

About 10 years ago, a rodent nuclear receptor was identi®ed on the basis of its ability to be activated by socalled peroxisome proliferators, a diverse group of hepatocarcinogens that includes various hypolipidemic drugs, plasticizers and herbicides. This ligand-activated transcription factor was therefore named the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) [1]. Since then, the ®eld of ...

the relationship between topic familiarity and guessing lexical meaning and retention among iranian efl learners

the skill of reading in english as a foreign language is an important and challenging one which is affected both by linguistic and extra linguistic factors. since vocabularies are part and parcel of every reading comprehension text, knowing enough vocabulary always facilitates this process. however, guessing strategy as one of the most important strategies has consistently ignored by language l...

Doublesex Surprises

sponds to the genetic sex grows, while the inappropriate 1 Department of Genetics primordium is repressed (Figure 1). In this model, it is Howard Hughes Medical Institute thought that both MGP and FGP are derived from differ-Harvard Medical School ent groups of embryonic cells (Nothiger et al. opment of the inappropriate genital primordium is re-2 Pediatric Surgical Research Laboratories presse...

Abdominal Surprises

Ebooks: Some Concerns and Surprises

Many librarians believe that the publication of Stephen King’s Riding the Bullet will be a turning point in the history of libraries. Until its publication, electronic books represented an alternative to paper-based books, not a replacement for them. But the success of King’s ebook-only novella demonstrated that a title could be a bestseller without the author ever putting ink to paper, and man...