Mrs Short turns prison visitor

Mrs Short's recipe for better prison health.

Short-term plasticity turns plastic

Short-term plasticity (STP) is a use-dependent change in synaptic strength on the timescale of millisecond to seconds and is observed in almost every synapse of the central nervous system. Each type of synapse has its own ‘personality‘ with respect to this property. When stimulated a few times within a second, some synapses show facilitation, others depression or else complex sequences of facil...

Functional Proteins from Short Peptides: Dayhoff's Hypothesis Turns 50.

First and foremost: Margaret Dayhoff's 1966 hypothesis on the origin of proteins is now an accepted model for the emergence of large, globular, functional proteins from short, simple peptides. However, the fundamental question of how the first protein(s) emerged still stands. The tools and hypotheses pioneered by Dayhoff, and the over 65 million protein sequences and 12 000 structures known tod...

Arctic Interagency Visitor Center Visitor Survey

In order for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to comply with the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA), and better meet the needs of the public; a visitor satisfaction survey was conducted at 24 BLM recreation sites in 13 states during fiscal year 2012 (FY12). The survey was developed to measure each site's performance related to BLM GPRA Goal 3.1 Provide for a quality recreation exp...

Cannonville Visitor Center - GSENM Visitor Survey

In order for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to comply with the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA), and better meet the needs of the public; a visitor satisfaction survey was conducted at 23 BLM recreation sites in 11 states during fiscal year 2009 (FY09). The survey was developed to measure each site's performance related to BLM GPRA Goal 3.1 Provide for a quality recreation exp...