Nucleation Was More Fun Than Growth

The booming economics-made-fun genre: more than having fun, but less than economics imperialism

Over the last few years there seems to have been a sharp increase in the number of books that want to spread the news that economics is, or at least can be, fun. This paper sets out to explain in what senses economics is supposed to be fun. In particular, the books in what I will call the economics-made-fun genre will be compared first with papers and books written by economists with the explic...

There was more to osmolyte selection than just osmotic balance.

Jason Treberg discusses the impact of Paul Yancey et al.'s classic paper 'Living with water stress: evolution of osmolyte systems', published in Science in 1982. Occasionally a hypothesis comes along that is so broadly applicable to biological systems that it borders on being universal. Even less frequent is when the hypothesis involves linking knowledge from almost a century before with recent...

Complete Growth Series of Coxeter Groups with more than Three Generators

Valproate was more effective than lamotrigine and better tolerated than topiramate in generalized or unclassified epilepsy.

M e t h o d s Design: Randomized controlled trial (Standard and New Antiepileptic Drugs [SANAD] trial, Arm B). Allocation: Concealed.* Blinding: Unblinded.* Follow-up period: Up to 6 years. Setting: Hospital-based outpatient clinics in the United Kingdom. Patients: 716 patients (mean age 23 y, 60% men) who had ≥ 2 clinically definite, unprovoked epileptic seizures in the past year and were reco...

Cancer Metabolism: Fueling More than Just Growth

The early landmark discoveries in cancer metabolism research have uncovered metabolic processes that support rapid proliferation, such as aerobic glycolysis (Warburg effect), glutaminolysis, and increased nucleotide biosynthesis. However, there are limitations to the effectiveness of specifically targeting the metabolic processes which support rapid proliferation. First, as other normal prolife...