To Remain Relevant, Change Agents Also Need to Change

Masters change, slaves remain.

Sex determination offers an opportunity to address many classic questions of developmental biology. In addition, because sex determination evolves rapidly, it offers an opportunity to investigate the evolution of genetic hierarchies. Sex determination in Drosophila melanogaster is controlled by the master regulatory gene, Sex lethal (Sxl). DmSxl controls the alternative splicing of a downstream...

Medical Leadership Development (MLD): the need of change and the way to approach it

Abortion--the need to change Jewish law.

Rights) that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof . . . " History has repeatedly demonstrated the need for separation of church and state which our United States Constitution guarantees. By imposing the tenets of any religious group on all we would destroy the liberty of all not in agreement with the state-sponsored morali...

Using Computational Agents to Motivate Diet Change

Computational agents which make use of behaviour change models have the potential to help motivate people to change problematic behaviour. The importance of emotion simulation in behaviour change agents is discussed, along with an overview of a behaviour change model (the Transtheoretical Model [1]) that computational agents can make use of. Experiments that will investigate these areas further...

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...