Unemployment persistence: not only stigma but discouragement too

Not only ‘only’, but ‘too’, too: Alternative-sensitive Particles in Bura

This article discusses the syntactic and semantic behaviour of alternative-sensitive particles in Bura (Central-Chadic, Afro-Asiatic), a tone language spoken by about 250.000 speakers in Northeastern Nigeria. The observed findings help to evaluate a number of claims on the syntactic and semantic nature of alternative-sensitive particles, which have been made largely on the basis of European lan...

Cohesion, but not too close

After DNA replication in eukaryotes, the daughter chromatids remain connected throughout G2 and mitosis until they separate in anaphase. In budding yeast, the chromosomal cohesin complex has been shown to bind the chromatids together tightly at multiple points approximately every 10 kb along their entire length. What happens in human cells? Are sister chromatids also bound along their entire le...

Ebola Treatment and Prevention are not the only Battles: Understanding Ebola-related Fear and Stigma

Unemployment Persistence 1

We estimate dynamic panel data models of unemployment incidence of British men, in order to disentangle the effects of unobserved individual heterogeneity and true state dependence. We also control for the ‘initial conditions’ problem that arises when the start of the observation period does not coincide with the start of the stochastic process generating individuals’ unemployment experiences. ...

Not only students can express alcohol dehydrogenase: goldfish can too!

This article describes a novel approach to study the metabolic regulation of the respiratory system in vertebrates that suits physiology lessons for undergraduate students. It consists of an experimental demonstration of the goldfish's (Carassius auratus) adaptations to anoxia. The goldfish is one of the few vertebrates showing strong enzymatic plasticity for the expression of alcohol dehydroge...