Souring seas

Disgust Promotes Disposal: Souring the Status Quo

Humans naturally dispose of objects that disgust them. Is this phenomenon so deeply embedded that even incidental disgust – i.e., where the source of disgust is unrelated to a possessed object – triggers disposal? Two experiments were designed to answer this question. Two film clips served as disgust and neutral primes; the objects were routine commodities (boxes of office supplies). Results re...

Characterization of thermophilic consortia from two souring oil reservoirs.

The microbial consortia from produced water at two different oil fields in Alaska (Kuparuk) and the North Sea (Ninian) were investigated for sulfate-reducing and methanogenic activity over a range of temperatures and for a variety of substrates. The consortia were sampled on site, and samples were either incubated on site at 60(deg)C with various substrates or frozen for later incubation and an...

Bounded seas

Imprecise manipulation of source code (semi-parsing) is useful for tasks such as robust parsing, error recovery, lexical analysis, and rapid development of parsers for data extraction. An island grammar precisely defines only a subset of a language syntax (islands), while the rest of the syntax (water) is defined imprecisely. Usually water is defined as the negation of islands. Albeit simple, s...

Harvesting the Seas

Surviving the Cytochrome Seas

were an order of magnitude higher than those required In the molecular drama of apoptotic cell death, perhaps to activate caspases in cell extracts (0.2–0.5 mM). Intact there is no character stranger than cytochrome c. This cells thus seem to have a way to regulate or suppress the familiar heme protein can be transformed, in Jekyll and response to cytosolic cytochrome c. When apoptosis is Hyde ...