New Year’s Resolutions to Lose Weight – Dreams and Reality

New Year's resolutions: plans or reality?

Farewell to the Lose–Lose Reality of Policing Plant Imports

In an age of free international shipments of mail-ordered seeds and plants, more policing will not stop the global migration of hitchhiking pests. The solution is in a preemptive response based on an internationally coordinated genomic deployment of global biodiversity in the largest breeding project since the "Garden of Eden." This plan will enrich the narrow genetic basis of annual and perenn...

The reality of dreams.

Sigmund Freud (1856 –1939) was a Viennese physician and the founder of psychoanalysis (1, 2 ). His seminal The Interpretation of Dreams was published in 1899 (3 ). Psychoanalysis dominated psychology and psychiatry for much of the 20th century. What is relevant to this Science in the Arts series is that Freud’s thinking also had a major influence on the arts. In the 1920s, his concepts stimulat...

BETWEEN DREAMS AND REALITY: Migration of Brazilian women to Switzerland.

The general objective of this article was to study the process of illegal migration of Brazilian women to Switzerland and, more specifically, to analyze the motivations for migration, the difficulties found upon arrival, the circumstances that led them to get married and lastly an evaluation of the whole experience. The methodology was based in a qualitative approach. The participants were eigh...

From the cell biology to the development of new chemotherapeutic approaches against trypanosomatids: dreams and reality.

Members of the Trypanosomatidae family comprise a large number of species that are causative agents of important diseases such as sleeping sickness, Chagas' disease and Leishmaniasis. These organisms are also of biological interest since they are able to change the morphology according to the environment where they live, through a process of reversible cell transformation, and possess structure...