Parasites: Kitty carriers

How kitty is killing the dolphins.

Parasites

Despite their large size, protozoan parasites are particularly adept at avoiding the unwanted attention of their hosts. This remarkable ability highlights the need for equally clever strategies to prevent and treat infection. With parasitic diseases such asmalaria and sleeping sickness affecting manymillions in the developing world, recent research in genetics and cell biology provides us with ...

Pharmaceutical Particulate Carriers: Lipid - Based Carriers

Drug delivery research areas is continuously broaden and modified as a results of the realization of many factors (such as poor drug solubility and/or absorption, rapid metabolism, high fluctuation in the drug plasma level and variability) adversely affect in-vivo results, in conventional drug delivery system. Lipids are one of the basic building blocks of biological membranes. Nanoscale-based ...

The Killing of Kitty Genovese: What Else Does This Case Tell Us?

Well known in popular culture, the 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese in Queens, New York, became famous because not one of an alleged 38 bystanders called police until it was too late. Within psychology, this singular event inspired the study of bystander intervention. With the spotlight of history focused on Ms. Genovese and bystanders, other events, also profound for what they tell us about human...

Kitty: a package for External patches Communication Management in Max/MSP - a Progress Report

We present KITTy (Kit d’Interfaçage Tout Terrain), a package programmed in Max/MSP allowing users to design their own network of integrated external patches. This package provides persistence and state-storage mechanisms within a network scheme. Another important feature relies upon the capability of integrating standalone applications written in Max/MSP by other users.