PEPTIDE IDENTITY CRISIS: IS SECRETONEURIN A NEW HORMONE?

Identity Crisis: Who Is a Vascular Surgeon?

Is Nitric Oxide a Hormone?

Nitric oxide (NO) is a simple ubiquitous signaling molecule and plays important roles in almost every biological system. Recent evidences suggest that NO may act as an endocrine molecule. The aim of this review is considering available literature on endocrine roles of NO and/or its metabolites, i.e. nitrite and nitrate. Existing data suggest the idea that NO is a hormone that after production i...

Is biogeography emerging from its identity crisis?

Biogeography has had an unusually protracted identity crisis (e.g. Brown & Lomolino, 2000; Donoghue & Moore, 2003), although the discipline took on a relatively ‘modern’ look well over a century ago – the thoroughly ‘modern’ observations of Alfred Russel Wallace have been discussed elsewhere (Funk, 2004), and Joseph Dalton Hooker’s views about floristic histories across lands of the southern he...

Identity Crisis: A Leader's Image is Worth a Thousand Words

There is a short supply, yet tacit demand, for creative and e ective communication training for educational leaders. A eld of literature indicates that a leader's identity is a potent communication tool. A leader's image can frame expectations for followers, symbolically evoking a family of concepts and patterns of meaning (receiving). The mindset of the transformational leader is politically r...

Identity crisis?

This article responds to arguments made in a recent paper by Bucholtz and Hall (Bucholtz, M., Hall, K., 2004. Theorizing identity in language and sexuality research. Language in Society 33, 469–515), in which two contrasting approaches to language and sexuality, dubbed ‘‘identity-based’’ and ‘‘desire-centered’’, are identified, and the latter is critiqued. As well as seeking to correct some ina...