Priests Come and Go…

Genes come and go

Our recent finding that the Candida albicans RNase III enzyme CaDcr1 is an unusual, multifunctional RNase III coupled with data on the RNase III enzymes from other fungal species prompted us to seek a model that explained the evolution of RNase III's in modern budding yeast species. CaDcr1 has both dicer function (generates small RNA molecules from dsRNA precursors) and Rnt1 function, (catalyze...

Transfers and Development Easy Come , Easy Go ?

A central behavioral assumption of economic theory is that income is fungible. Yet, building on the pioneering work by Thaler (1999) recent work by behavioural economists highlights that people code income in different mental accounts, creating a direct link between spending behaviour and income sources, thereby violating the fungibility assumption. This paper examines whether the marginal prop...

Easy Come - Easy Go Divisible Cash

Recently, there has been an interest in creating practical anonymous electronic cash with the ability to conduct payments of exact amounts, as is typically the practice in physical payment systems. The most general solution for such payments is to allow electronic coins to be divisible (e.g., each coin can be spent incrementally but total purchases are limited to the monetary value of the coin)...

Ascetic Priests and O'briens

Businessmen, Priests and Parishes