Neither of these predictions came true. Groups research did not experience a resurgence 8 to 10 years later as Steiner believed, nor did the scientific community forget his prediction. Steiner himself raised the issue again several years later, noting with disappointment that the ‘new day’ had not come (Steiner, 1983, 1986). Other articles dealing with the destiny of groups research have been p...

McCarthy scholarship has predominantly tended to stress the writer’s revisionism with regard to his rendering of the myth of the American West in Blood Meridian (1985). McCarthy’s novel has beenmainlyhailed as a critique of the violence of manifest destiny. This study aims to delineate aspects of McCarthy’s narrative which resist the predominant view of him as a revisionist. In this re...

Telomeres are specialized regions of repetitive sequences that found at each end of chromosomes and have an important function in protecting the genomic integrity. In the absence of telomerase functioning in the proliferating cells, every mitotic division progressively shorten telomeres which ultimately leads to senescence of the cells. Therefore, shortening of telomeres’ length is recognized a...