Without fuss

Multivariate Fuss-Catalan numbers

are integers that appear in many combinatorial problems. These numbers first arose in the work of Catalan as the number of triangulations of a polygon by mean of nonintersecting diagonals. Stanley [13, 14] maintains a dynamic list of exercises related to Catalan numbers, including (at this date) 127 combinatorial interpretations. Closely related to Catalan numbers are ballot numbers. Their name...

Prescribing: what's all the fuss?

BACKGROUND Prescribing is a commonly used skill which has until recently been poorly taught in medical school curricula. This is despite the fact that there are a number of proven approaches to teaching better prescribing. OBJECTIVE The WHO Guide to Good Prescribing is discussed, with an example elaborating the steps involved in the process. DISCUSSION Central to this approach is the develo...

The Fuss about Mus81

Endonucleolytic cleavage of Holliday junctions is important in recombination and replication. Mus81 proteins in yeasts and humans appear to have many, but not all, of the expected properties of eukaryotic Holliday junction resolvases, with intriguing connections to DNA replication checkpoints.

What's all the fuss about?

Justifying all the fuss about false belief.

The classic study by Wimmer and Perner showed that children below the age of about 4 years of age fail to appreciate others' false beliefs. This opened the floodgates to the theory-of-mind research programme. Recently, a study by Riggs and Simpson has called the central challenge of false belief into question, reporting similar difficulties with true belief. I would argue, however, that not onl...