Making Lemonade Out of Lemons

Turning manuscript rejection "lemons" into "lemonade".

Turning Lemons into Lemonade : Making Georgia v . Ashcroft the Mobile v . Bolden of 2007

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 forever changed the face of electoral equality in the United States. Today, almost forty years later, the Act is considered one of the most pivotal pieces of federal legislation in our country’s history and the “most successful piece of civil rights legislation ever enacted.” Congress has revisited various segments of the Act ave times since its enactment. A key 19...

Lemons Into Lemonade: Development and Validation of an Inventory to Assess Dispositional Thriving

Research indicates that health and disorder are polar opposites of the same continuum of vulnerability. Research has focused almost exclusively upon one end of this continuum, namely disorder. As such, instruments that assess adaptive dispositions (e.g., “thriving”, or post-trauma growth) have rarely been developed. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate an instrument that assess...

Making Believers out of Computers

To someone unfamiliar with Artificial Intelligence, all of the activity that is taking place at this IJCAI conference must be very puzzling. And the current fuss about what is called a "knowledge-based system" (KBS) must be a total mystery. For one thing, there is an amazing amount of talk about knowledge. There are even advertisements in The AI Magazine reminding us of the value of knowledge. ...

Making sense out of nonsense.

T is considerable interest among protein scientists in methods that permit unnatural amino acids to be incorporated at specific sites in proteins. Such methods would facilitate studies of protein structure and function and would allow for the synthesis of proteins having novel properties. Current methods use nonsense-suppressing tRNAs (1) to incorporate an unnatural amino acid at the desired si...