OUR TENDENCY TO FADS

Hitchhiking fads en route to peroxisomes

A unique aspect of protein translocation across the peroxisomal membrane is that folded and oligomeric proteins get across this membrane (Purdue and Lazarow, 2001). The generality of this rule, its specific features, and its mechanism are not fully understood. A paper in this issue addresses, in a very thorough fashion, the assembly, cofactor binding, and import of an oligomeric protein, acyl-C...

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Experience overrides personality differences in the tendency to follow but not in the tendency to lead.

In many animal groups, coordinated activity is facilitated by the emergence of leaders and followers. Although the identity of leaders is to some extent predictable, most groups experience frequent changes of leadership. How do group members cope with such changes in their social role? Here, we compared the foraging behaviour of pairs of stickleback fish after a period of either (i) role reinfo...

Students’ Tendency to Ethical Use of Internet

Background: Positive use of internet may lead to the progress in life and unethical use of internet may take us away from scientific goals. The ‎purpose of the research is to study the tendency of students in ethical usage of internet.  Method: Study is a descriptive and analytical type and it has been done by survey method.  The ‎statistical population is 13485 individuals of students of Urmia...

Food Fads, Facts, and Fancies

THE MEDICAL or food quack is one of the most pernicious influences scientific nutrition has to meet. The food quack today uses many of the same devices, modernized, that the patent-medicine vendor used a generation ago. The quack of former days was so crude in his statements that the modern consumer wonders how people ever could have believed such buncombe. Even today there is plenty of flagran...