Getting a Good View of Depiction

Getting a good night's sleep.

Getting good reception.

The human brain contains hundreds of billions of neurons and connections, all busily engaged in transmitting the specialized electrical messages that allow the mind and body to sense and respond to the myriad stimuli encountered each moment of every day. In the NIEHS Laboratory of Signal Transduction, scientists study the mechanisms by which environmental agents disrupt these neural pathways, t...

Getting off to a good start.

This article examines the origins of interorganizational endorsements in the context of firms undergoing an initial public offering (IPO). We propose that the affiliations associated with the career histories of a firm’s upper echelon, including its managing officers and board members, send important signals to external parties who are evaluating the quality of young firms. Such signals are cri...

Getting a fix on good governance.

Getting into the mind of a worm--a personal view.

Ever since I can remember, I liked to take things to bits to see how they work. My parents thought that this trait was not to be encouraged when applied to living animals, so diverted my attention to things mechanical and electronic. I was given the use of a shed in the garden. This became my beloved workshop where I made bombs, rockets, and radios. After one of my bombs caused a local scare, m...