The study aims at investigating the influence of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students' perfectionism and anxiety on their Willingness to Communicate (WTC) in EFL classes. To do so, a set of questionnaires, namely “Willingness To Communicate” (MacIntyre, et al., 2001), “Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety” (Horwitz, et al., 1986)  and “Multidimensional Perfectionism Scales” (Hewitt & Flet...

Local translation of certain mRNAs at synapses in response to activation critically contributes to asymmetric cell polarity and synaptic plasticity (Kiebler and DesGroseillers, 2000; Steward and Schuman, 2001; St Johnston, 2005). The double-stranded RNA-binding protein Staufen has been implicated both in dendritic RNA transport and translational regulation (Tang et al., 2001; Kim et al., 2005)....

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is common in critically ill patients affecting 20 60% of patients (Chertow, et al., 2005; de Mendonca, et al., 2000; Mehta, et al., 2005; Ostermann & Chang, 2008; Silvester, et al., 2001; Uchino, et al., 2005). The exact incidence varies depending on patient population, associated comorbid factors and criteria used to define AKI. Sepsis induced AKI accounts for approxi...

The pholyphenolic phytoalexin resveratrol (3,4 ́,5-trihydroxystilbene) is abundant in grape skins (with higher concentration in red as compared to white wine), peanuts, the roots of the weed Polygonum cuspidatum as well as in other fruits and vegetables (Cardile et al., 2007; Csaki et al., 2008). It is produced by plants in response to stress and has a wide range of pharmacological activities. R...

Scyphomedusae undergo a predictable ontogenetic transition from a conserved, universal larval form to a diverse array of adult morphologies. This transition entails a change in bell morphology from a highly discontinuous ephyral form, with deep clefts separating eight discrete lappets, to a continuous solid umbrella-like adult form. We used a combination of kinematic, modeling, and flow visuali...

470 Extracardiac endothelium patterns embryonic coronary arterio-venous connections JM. Perez-Pomares1; E. Cano2; R. Carmona1; A. Ruiz-Villalba3; A. Rojas4; Y-Y. Chau5; KD. Wagner6; N. Wagner6; ND. Hastie5; R. Munoz-Chapuli1 University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain; Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany; University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain; Centro Andaluz de Biologı́a Molecul...

Et Tu, Torsten? This critique of my Economic Policy paper generates many emotions. It is certainly an honor for my research to be taken seriously by such an eminent scholar as my friend Torsten Persson. And while any publicity is good, a negative citation dominates a positive one. There is irony; I came up with the original idea in a hallway conversation with Harry Flam a few feet from Persson’...

A traditional view of the nature of species holds that populations within species maintain genetic cohesion through substantial intraspecific gene flow and that the whole genome of a species is protected from interspecific gene flow by strong reproductive isolation. Both aspects of this view have been challenged. Reproductive barriers between recently evolved species can be incomplete and perme...

This paper describes and discusses the impacts of the passage of cold fronts on the vertical structure of the Carlos Botelho (Lobo-Broa) Reservoir as demonstrated by changes in physical, chemical, and biological variables. The data were obtained with a continuous system measuring 9 variables in vertical profiles in the deepest point of the reservoir (12 m) coupled with climatological informatio...