JCB • VOLUME 172 • NUMBER 1 • 2006 4 Virtual adherens junctions he textbook model of adherens junctions has been exploded, or severed, by Bill Weis, Soichiro Yamada, Frauke Drees, Sabine Pokutta, and W. James Nelson (Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA). There is no direct link, they say, between cadherin, via and -catenin, to actin. Weis’s original goal was ambitious—a structu...

A firm can finance investment either by borrowing or by drawing on cash balances, so that financial asset and liability changes tend to have opposite signs. In contrast, financial intermediaries borrow in order to lend, so that financial asset and liability changes have the same sign. Large non-financial firms in China and India behave like intermediaries rather than textbook non-financial firm...

PURPOSE The Finnish Genetics of Pre-eclampsia Consortium (FINNPEC) Study was established to set up a nationwide clinical and DNA database on women with and without pre-eclampsia (PE), including their partners and infants, in order to identify genetic risk factors for PE. PARTICIPANTS FINNPEC is a cross-sectional case-control cohort collected from 5 university hospitals in Finland during 2008-...

It has been widely accepted that a textbook is an essential component of the EFL classroom. Evaluation of textbooks, therefore, is of utmost importance so that its pedagogical contribution to the teaching and learning process can be assured. In the context of ELT in Hong Kong, textbook evaluation is even more of an important issue given the recent implementation of the New Senior Secondary Curr...

Current Surgical Therapy-2 has the scope of a textbook of general surgery and approaches the length of a textbook of general surgery-but it is not a textbook of general surgery. Divided into 181 chapters in 18 sections, the book covers the domain of general surgery: the digestive tract and its associated organs, the spleen, breast, endocrine organs, chest wall, trachea, skin and soft tissues, a...

Current Surgical Therapy-2 has the scope of a textbook of general surgery and approaches the length of a textbook of general surgery-but it is not a textbook of general surgery. Divided into 181 chapters in 18 sections, the book covers the domain of general surgery: the digestive tract and its associated organs, the spleen, breast, endocrine organs, chest wall, trachea, skin and soft tissues, a...