A ‘swiss Army Knife’ for Chatting in Distributed Educationnal Settings

Multipurpose Identity-Based Sign ryption A Swiss Army Knife for Identity-Based Cryptography

Dimethyltryptamine (DMT): a biochemical Swiss Army knife in neuroinflammation and neuroprotection?

Dissecting the Pathophysiology of Depression with a Swiss Army Knife

In this issue of Neuron, Hen and colleagues shed new light on the behavioral effects of fluoxetine, one of the most commonly prescribed antidepressants. This report prompts us to revisit our understanding of the neural circuitry mediating mood disorders and also provides a framework for developing new antidepressant treatments.

GAL4 system in Drosophila: a fly geneticist's Swiss army knife.

The last decade has seen an enormous expansion in the genetic toolbox of model organisms. This has been particularly apparent in the fruitfly, Drosophila melanogaster, in which the development of these tools and their ongoing extension, along with the completion of the genome sequence has allowed for the analysis of most any process. One particularly elegant example of tool development was the ...

Regarding System Output in Situated Computing

A chef's knife is superb when cooking. A Swiss Army knife also could do the job, but not as easily. Tools optimized for a certain activity tend to be used as an extension of oneself, whereas the focus or attention of the user is on the task at hand, and not on the tool. On the other hand, a Swiss Army knife is versatile, small and mobile, and useable for many other things than cooking. I believ...