Juggling friends and foes: Prime Minister Borissov’s surprise survival in Bulgaria

Phytoestrogens. Friends or foes?

BioInformatics Pipeline Alternative Splicing Services (BIPASS) offer support to scientists interested in gathering information related to alternative splicing (AS) events. The service BIPAS–SpliceDB provides access to AS information that has been extracted a priori from various public databases and stored in a data warehouse. In contrast, the BIPAS– Align&Splice service allows scientists to sub...

Counting Prime Juggling Patterns

Juggling patterns can be described by a closed walk in a (directed) state graph, where each vertex (or state) is a landing pattern for the balls and directed edges connect states that can occur consecutively. The number of such patterns of length n is well known, but a long-standing problem is to count the number of prime juggling patterns (those juggling patterns corresponding to cycles in the...

Chemoreception: Identifying Friends and Foes

The vomeronasal organ detects chemical cues that trigger sexual, aggressive and defensive behaviors. An in situ hybridization analysis has identified the specificities of nearly a hundred VNO receptors and elucidated the logic by which they encode these cues.

Beta-agonists--friends or foes?

Competition and quality: friends or foes?

The extensive promotion and proliferation of articles and learned essays on Total Quality Management (TQM) have filled the pages of magazines, conference proceedings and academic journals such as this over the past few years. A limited number of commentators have stuck their necks out to question some of the supposed gains that such a managerial revolution can have in terms of the intended bene...