When It Looks Like Familial Hypercholesterolemia…but Is Not

When it looks like familial hypercholesterolemia...but is not.

When Senescence Is Optimal and When It Is Not

A simple model is developed that captures the main features of life reproduction, growth and maintenance. These features are determined by a single state variable, vitality. The resulting optimal life-history strategies are classified with respect to the course of their characteristic age-trajectory of mortality. It is shown that the range of optimal life histories is wide. The main factors tha...

Not as Good as it Looks.

tion, and the lipidized DF, with a homogeneous yellowish area.3,6 Although initially considered rare, sebaceous structures are identified in more than 15% of DFs,4,5,7 even in multiple forms.8 This finding is typical in lesions localized in the anatomical area of the shoulder (shoulder, proximal region of the arm, upper back and deltoid region), being observed in more than 40% of these cases, p...

When it Sounds like a Duck and it Looks like a Dog... Auditory icons vs. Earcons in Multimedia Environments

Myra P. Bussemakers, Ab de Haan Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information University of Nijmegen Montessorilaan 3, 6525 HR Nijmegen, The Netherlands +31 24 3612648 [email protected] ABSTRACT In this research a categorization paradigm is used to study the multimodal integration processes that take place when working with an interface. Redundant auditory icons are used with visual in...

Phytochrome: If It Looks and Smells Like a Histidine Kinase, Is It a Histidine Kinase?

second domain contains two PAS repeats (Lagarias et Like all organisms, plants continually monitor and real., 1995) that overlap with newly identified motifs, the spond to changes in their environment. Being photosynS boxes, that occur in a large family of energy-sensing thetic, plants are particularly attuned to ambient light proteins including other histidine kinases (Zhulin et al., condition...