Just Looking

Commentary: you can observe a great deal by just looking.

PDB_REDO: constructive validation, more than just looking for errors

Developments of the PDB_REDO procedure that combine re-refinement and rebuilding within a unique decision-making framework to improve structures in the PDB are presented. PDB_REDO uses a variety of existing and custom-built software modules to choose an optimal refinement protocol (e.g. anisotropic, isotropic or overall B-factor refinement, TLS model) and to optimize the geometry versus data-re...

Are Prices Sticky or just Backward-Looking? (Preliminary)

This paper contributes to the address of two questions emphasized in the recent literature on models of the role of monetary policy in the economy. The …rst concerns the consistency of the New Keynesian sticky price model with the high degree of persistence in in‡ation. The second concerns the possibility that perceived di¤erences in the behavioral relationship between in‡ation, interest rates,...

Are pathogenic bacteria just looking for food? Metabolism and microbial pathogenesis.

It is interesting to speculate that the evolutionary drive for microbes to develop pathogenic characteristics was to access the nutrient resources that animals provided. Animal environments that pathogens colonize have likely driven the evolution of new bacterial characteristics to maximize these new nutritional opportunities. This review focuses on genomic and functional aspects of pathogen me...

Looking at perspective pictures from too far, too close, and just right.

A central problem for psychology is vision's reaction to perspective. In the present studies, observers looked at perspective pictures projected by square tiles on a ground plane. They judged the tile dimensions while positioned at the correct distance, farther or nearer. In some pictures, many tiles appeared too short to be squares, many too long, and many just right. The judgments were strong...