Scientist may sue over “Golden Fleece” award

Genomes: Methanococcus jannaschii and the golden fleece

The total genome sequence of the archaeon Methanococcus jannaschii completes the trilogy of genomes for the three domains of life-Archaea, Bacteria and Eucarya. It will have far-reaching consequences for evolutionary studies and for the way in which experimental biology is performed.

Henry S. Kaplan Distinguished Scientist Award

The International Association for Radiation Research established in 1985 the Henry S. Kaplan Distinguished Scientist Award. The award, which is presented every four years at the International Congress of Radiation Research, consists of a medal, a certificate and a cash prize. A plenary session is designated for the award ceremony, including a lecture by the awardee. Previous recipients of this ...

ABCD & Merial young scientist award 2017.

Ischemic preconditioning in coronary heart disease: a therapeutic golden fleece?

reconditioning is the process by which brief, repetitive pisodes of ischemia reduce the size of a subsequent yocardial infarction. Since the discovery of ischemic preonditioning by Murry et al. (1) almost two decades ago, housands of studies have pursued its mechanism(s) and ought therapeutic realization of this unique adaptive reponse to a physiologic stress. Although mechanistic undertanding ...

Jason and the Golden Fleece of Agent-Oriented Programming

This chapter describes Jason, an interpreter written in Java for an extended version of AgentSpeak, a logic-based agent-oriented programming language that is suitable for the implementation of reactive planning systems according to the BDI architecture. We describe both the language and the various features and tools available in the platform.