Why some of relatively low hydrophobic segments become transmembrane segments while others are not?

Why are some books important (and others not)?

The book Why Are Some People Healthy and Others Not? The Determinants of Health of Populations represented a milestone in our evolving understanding of the determinants of population health. Building on Marc Lalonde's earlier A New Perspective on the Health of Canadians, it created a theoretical framework that could incorporate emerging evidence from a wide range of disciplines. Central to its ...

Social Learning with Payoff Externality: Why Some Learn While Others Do Not

This paper studies a model of social learning with externalities and possibly with limited observability of past actions. Bayesian agents sequentially choose an action each, after observing the actions of a subset of preceding agents. These actions and a private signal, conditionally independent across agents, supply information about the common state of the world. Each agent’s payoff depends o...

Why do some orthodontic treatments last so long while others do not?

Orienting Attention While Training Hindi Segments

The current experiment tests for an effect of attention during phonetic learning by manipulating attentional allocation to different aspects of the phonetic signal during training. In an identification task, two native English speaking participant groups were trained on novel Hindi words containing unfamiliar consonants and vowels. Both groups were presented with the same auditory stimuli. One ...

Sequence Analysis of Less Hydrophobic Transmembrane Segments in Polytopic Membrane Proteins

To understand the function of membrane proteins, the knowledge of their structure, especially the knowledge of the position of transmembrane segments (TMSs) and of their membrane topology (i.e., orientation of TMSs across the membrane), is crucial. Since most TMSs of α-type polytopic (i.e., having multiple TMSs) membrane proteins are composed of hydrophobic amino acids, they are usually detecte...