Why the Jesuits Joined 1540‑1600

Joined at the Hip

Cooperation in the cerebellum y crossing knockout mice deficient for two cell adhesion molecules, Sakurai et al. have obtained the first genetic evidence for the molecules' functional overlap, and have explained why earlier tissue culture results were not replicated in single knockout mice (page 1259). Sakurai and colleagues started by engineering mice deficient for NrCAM, which had only mild (...

Why I joined the research laboratory of Prof. D. Carleton Gajdusek in 1968

Two important milestones in my life: I was born in 1921 to a military family from Languedoc in France; in 1986 I took compulsory retirement after declining to create a new research unit in the Pitié Salpétrière Hospital in Paris. Sometime in between I discovered what hospital life was like, following the disaster of 1940! Because I was for 1 year an auxiliary medical officer in the First Army, ...

Strategic behavior in IEAs : When and why countries joined the Kyoto Protocol ∗

We empirically analyze the formation of international environmental agreements within a political economy framework. We develop a theoretical model of state dependent net benefits of ratification predicting (i) strategic behavior with respect to the timing of ratification and (ii) that ratification per se is not necessarily a stronger signal of support compared to signature. Analyzing the signa...

Coming of Jesuits to Czech lands and the present.

Joined-up thinking

Australia is embarking on an ambitious scheme described as a terrestrial version of the Great Barrier Reef, to establish a wildlife corridor along its 2,800-kilometre east coast to help protect the country's remarkable wildlife from potential climate change. The project aims to re-establish a network of habitats from the Australian Alps in the southern state of Victoria to the Atherton tablelan...