Soap Takes an Effect

The " soap opera " effect in story recall

When people learn aseries of actions of a character, their memory is strongly influenced, we suggest, by beUefs about that character's motives. Motives serve as schema for deciding the meaning of the actions, their importance, and their interconnections. In two experiments, subjects read and later remembered some dull activities of a character. Experimental subjects knew what this character was...

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An Evaluation of Contemporary Commercial SOAP Implementations

SOAP is now widely accepted as the core transport protocol for Web Services but there are still open questions about whether SOAP can really meet the performance needs of business. This paper attempts to address some of these questions by evaluating and comparing the performance of several contemporary commercial SOAP implementations. The reported tests send a variety of SOAP messages to Web Se...

Malaria protease takes an indirect route

Awakening heterochromatin ites in the human genome once thought to be inert structural material are brought to life in response to stress, according to results from Jolly et al. (page 25). These inactive DNA stretches are binding sites for HSF1, a transcription factor that activates individual heat shock genes and accumulates in nuclear granules after heat shock. These granules were, like HSF1,...

Checkpoints: Chromosome pairing takes an unexpected twist

When meiotic cells complete S phase, homologous chromosomes pair, synapse and undergo recombination. A checkpoint protein is somehow required for meiotic chromosome pairing in C. elegans, thus providing a direct link between S phase and the rest of the meiotic program.