Stirring up Silence

Retinal Waves Stirring Up a Storm

exploratory bouts in a novel environment? The only way to find out will be to record chronically across multiple units and cortical layers during the actual behavior and plasticity process. Finally, how such a shift in excitatory–inhibitory balance might be achieved is of interest. The brevity of the exploratory behavior required for bidirectional map changes is suggestive. Remarkably, just 4 m...

Stirring it Up: Faculty Professional Development in Jamaica

Ophthalmology postgraduate training in India: Stirring up a hornet's nest

Medical Council of India (MCI) is an autonomous regulatory authority responsible for setting the standards of undergraduate as well as Postgraduate Medical Education besides certifying the availability of adequate infrastructure, clinical teaching material, and the trained workforce in the training institutes. Specifically, the Postgraduate Medical Education is governed by the MCI Postgraduate ...

Stirring Up a Hornets ’ Nest : Geographic Distribution of Crime ∗

This paper develops a model of the geographic distribution of crime in an urban area. Agents select their occupation, residence, consumption, and housing. The paper is the first to formally study how the location of crime, the residence of workers, and housing prices are affected by the spatial allocation of police protection. It examines two opposite strategies of police deployment: concentrat...

Argonautes team up to silence transposable elements in Arabidopsis.

The de novo silencing of transposable elements in plants and animals is mediated in part by RNA-directed chromatin modification. In flowering plants, AGO4 has been seen as the key argonauteprotein in the RNA-directed DNA methylation pathway that links the plant-specific RNA polymerase V with the de novo DNA methyltransferase DRM2 (Zhong et al,2014). Two recent papers in The EMBO Journal strongl...