Exposing male mice to nicotine or cocaine enables their male offspring to cope with high doses of either, which suggests that such paternal effects are generic, rather than being a response to a specific type of stress.

Exterior night, cityscape. Thousands of distant points of light lie still in the summer air. Below them a neon diner sign flickers silently across a nearby empty street. Suddenly the close up face of the main character moves into the frame, the focus pulls, bringing their silent profile into crisp silhouette, while blurring the urban backdrop into a splash of color. Each point of light blooms i...

Pelger-Huet anomaly is a rare autosomal dominant disorder characterized by pince-nez appearance of the nuclei of the neutrophils. This is caused by failure of nuclear segmentation due to genetic defect in the LBR (laminin B-receptor) on the chromosome 1q41-43. Heterozygotes have dumbbell-shaped or hyposegmented neutrophils with coarse chromatin and normal granules. Homozygotes have neutrophils ...

Woolson. (Frederick Midler, 18s.). This is the account of his adult son's psychotic illness by an American journals and of the way in which members of his family tried to readjust themselves to its effects upon their lives and personalities. The narrative is a painful one, and the author?deeply involved by his oW almost desperate efforts to help his son and to understand the changes in him^ wri...

Something has ceased to come along with me. Something like a person: something very like one. And there was no nobility in it Or anything like that.

We currently have a poor understanding of how different soil sampling methods (pedogenetic horizon versus fixed-depth) influence the evaluation of soil properties. Here, 159 soil profiles were sampled from larch (Larix gmelinii) plantations in northeast China using both the pedogenetic horizon and fixed-depth sampling methods. Analysis of variance was used to determine how sampling method influ...

H-NOM T-GEN son-ACC kidnap-PST ‘Hanako kidnapped Taro’s son.’ (active) b. Taroo-no musuko-ga Hanako-ni saraw-are-ta T-GEN son-NOM H-DAT kidnap-PASS-PST ‘Taroo’s son was kidnapped by Hanako.’ (DIRECT PASSIVE) c. Taroo-no musuko-ga Hanako-niyotte saraw-are-ta T-GEN son-NOM H-DAT kidnap-PASS-PST ‘Taroo’s son was kidnapped by Hanako.’ (NIYOTTE PASSIVE) d. Taroo-ga Hanako-ni musuko-o saraw-are-ta T-...

Introduction: The magnocellular neurons (MCNs) of the supraoptic nucleus (SON) play a crucial role in control of physiological and pathophysiologiccal condition due to two peptides that they synthesize, i.e. Oxytocin (OXT) and Vasopressin (AVP). The activity of MCNs is regulated by a variety of excitatory and inhibitory inputs. Opioid receptors are one of the important receptors in SON synap...

Face cloning and animation considering wrinkle formation and aging are an aspiring goal and a challenging task. This paper describes a cloning method and an aging simulation in a family. We reconstruct a father, mother, son and daughter of one family and mix their shapes and textures in 3D to get virtual persons with some variation. The idea of reconstruction of a head is to detect features fro...