Is the mirror cracked?

Is mirror therapy all it is cracked up to be? Current evidence and future directions.

That viewing oneself through a mirror can evoke peculiar experiences has intrigued researchers for more than a century [34]. The typical approach involves placing one limb behind a mirror that is situated along an observer’s midline. The observer who looks at the mirror’s surface will perceive the reflected limb to be the limb that is hidden behind the mirror. People subjectively report the exp...

TRP Is Cracked but Is CRAC TRP?

fly's compound eye. Unlike many genetically identified proteins in this system, which are enzymes in the phos-Mayo Foundation Rochester, Minnesota 55905 phatidylinositol pathway, TRP and TRPL were originally presumed to be ion channels based on their putative It takes only one close look at a housefly to tell you six transmembrane-spanning topology and the phenotype of the associated trp mutant...

Shadows in a Cracked Mirror: The Spectre in The Well of Loneliness

Case Closed: the 500 Language Problem is Cracked

We explain what the 500 language problem is, why it is a relevant problem , and why solutions are needed. We discuss its solution, and illustrate it by applying it to two non-trivial but representative languages: an exotic proprietary real-time language from the telecommunications industry, and a well-known dialect of the most popular language in the world: IBM's VS COBOL II. We share our lesso...

Case Closed: the 500 Language Problem is Cracked

We explain what the 500 language problem is, why it is a relevant problem , and why solutions are needed. We discuss its solution, and illustrate it by applying it to two non-trivial but representative languages: an exotic proprietary real-time language from the telecommunications industry, and a well-known dialect of the most popular language in the world: IBM's VS COBOL II. We share our lesso...