COVID-19 containment measures led to a generalised decrease in working hours. The limited chances of spending time outside the home and increased needs related children housekeeping triggered gender-specific reactions unpaid labour. Little is

Good housekeeping maintains a healthy liver S nider et al. report that differential expression of two key metabolic enzymes may explain why some people are more susceptible to liver damage. Some forms of liver disease, particularly steatohepatitis, are marked by the formation of misfolded protein aggregates called Mallory-Denk bodies (MDBs). Not all patients display these aggregates, however, a...

A use-dilution procedure and screening method are proposed to aid the hospital bacteriologist in selecting the most effective disinfectants. Sixteen disinfectants were tested with and without organic material on six different organisms. Sporadic results usually obtained with quaternaries tested by the procedure of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists (AOAC) were eliminated by the m...

intense investigation into the causes of aging, molecular mechanisms governing cellular longevity remain elusive, yet some possibilities are coming into focus [1,2]. It has become clear from many studies utilizing simple model systems that the aging process is multifarious and certainly involves a combination of genetic and stochastic mechanisms. The discovery of single gene mutations that infl...

I n the Western world the role of air pollution in the initiation of respiratory disease in children is contentious [1]. There is good evidence that air pollution can trigger symptoms in susceptible children but its contribution to the pathogenesis of childhood respiratory disorders, such as asthma, remains unclear. There has been considerable interest in traffic-related pollutants and studies ...

Prior work examining technology usage and maintenance practices in homes describes division of labor in terms of technical expertise. In this paper, we offer a counter-narrative to this explanation for engagement with Ubiquitous Computing. Using feminist theory as an analytic lens, we examine how gender identity work is a determining factor of whether and how people engage with digital technolo...

HOUSEKEEPING GENES are constitutively expressed to maintain cellular function. As such, they are presumed to produce the minimally essential transcripts necessary for normal cellular physiology. With the advent of microarray technology, it has recently become possible to identify at least the “starter set” of housekeeping genes, as exemplified by the work of Velculescu et al. (2), as well as by...

Mammalian housekeeping promoters represent a class of regulatory elements different from those of tissues-specific genes, lacking a TATA box and associated with CG-rich DNA. We have compared the organization of the housekeeping Htf9 promoter in different cell types by genomic footprinting. The sites of in vivo occupancy clearly reflected local combinations of tissue-specific and ubiquitous bind...

The total entropy production of stochastic systems can be divided into three quantities. The first corresponds to the excess heat, while the second two comprise the housekeeping heat. We denote these two components the transient and generalized housekeeping heat and we obtain an integral fluctuation theorem for the latter, valid for all Markovian stochastic dynamics. A previously reported forma...