hy a new edition of The Nature of the Judicial Process? Presumably because in the world of law, Benjamin Cardozo still rocks, and his opinions and writings still send worthwhile messages as we near the 100th anniversary of his election to the bench. All law students and many academics continue to wrestle with a number of his common law opinions. Just this year Professor Lawrence Cunningham devo...

This is a record of the experiences in a mental hospital of a patient suffering (apparently) from paranoid schizophrenia. As it is stated on the cover that the patient has recovered from his illness and that he has written the book under his own name, it is very difficult to make any comment from the clinical point of view without running the risk of doing harm. He himself has recorded and disc...

Copper coordination to soluble oligomers of the English (AβH(6)R) mutant of the amyloid-β peptide is probed. Cu(II) coordination yields a square planar (N/O)4 coordination environment, while reduction yields an O2 inert linear bis-His Cu(I) centre.

bertolt brecht composed poems, focusing on the political, social and economic situations of his time. this fact could also be seen in his plays. with this outlook brecht challenges the readers of his work with regard to the social problems of their time. doing so, the reader finds himself in a difficult task that tests his ability and skill to resolve the problems. the initial poems of brecht s...

psychiatrist, and his books sold in millions and were translated into more than 20 languages. As we approach Laing in the 1990s, there are still deeply divided opinions as to his worth. One view, mainly held by psychiatrists, is that he enjoyed a fashionable notoriety in the 1960s when peddling anti-establishment opinions, but that his views on schizophrenia were dangerous nonsense, which encou...

Bamboo mosaic virus (BaMV), a member of the potexvirus group, infects primarily members of the Bambusoideae. The open reading frame 1 (ORF1) of BaMV encodes a 155-kDa polypeptide that was postulated to be involved in the replication and the formation of cap structure at the 5' end of the viral genome. To characterize the activities associated with the 155-kDa viral protein, it was expressed in ...

In vitro selection targeting an anti-polyhistidine monoclonal antibody was performed using mRNA display with a random, unconstrained 27-mer peptide library. After six rounds of selection, epitope-like peptides were identified that contain two to five consecutive, internal histidines and are biased for arginine residues, without any other identifiable consensus. The epitope was further refined b...

A hexahistidine-tagged C-terminal nucleotide-binding domain (H6-NBD2) from mouse P-glycoprotein was designed, overexpressed, and purified as a highly soluble recombinant protein. Intrinsic fluorescence of its single tryptophan residue allowed monitoring of high-affinity binding of 2'(3')-N-methylanthraniloyl-ATP (MANT-ATP), a fluorescent ATP derivative that induces a marked quenching correlated...

Recombinant subunit vaccines consisting of the F1 and V antigens of Yersinia pestis have shown remarkable promise for protection of animals and humans against bubonic and pneumonic plague. Previously we demonstrated that intranasal administration of a recombinant protein consisting of the ricin B chain (RTB) fused with an antigen purified from transgenic Nicotiana tabacum (tobacco) hairy root c...