101 * This paper is a revised version of a presentation to the Australian Public Policy Network conference, 29–30 January 2008. The author thanks many colleagues who have helped in the further clarification of these ideas, including John Alford, Alan Fenna, Patrick Weller, Andrew Podger, and the anonymous referees for this journal — none of whom bears any responsibility for errors. © 2008 Curti...

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the lowest among all racial and ethnic groups in the United States. From 1978 to 1991, smoking rates declined for both males and females in this group (Bachman et al., 1991). The Monitoring the Future (MTF) study showed that in 1978, 24.9 percent of African American high school seniors had smoked a cigarette daily, whereas only 4.1 percent reported this activity in 1991 (Johnston et al., 1996)....

Correction: Structural basis for the prion-like MAVS filaments in antiviral innate immunity Hui Xu12, Xiaojing He, Hui Zheng, Lily J Huang, Fajian Hou, Zhiheng Yu, Michael Jason de la Cruz, Brian Borkowski, Xuewu Zhang*, Zhijian J Chen25*, Qiu-Xing Jiang* Department of Cell Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, United States; Department of Molecular Biology, Universi...

THE SURGEONS I first met Mr (as he was then) George Johnston and Mr Terence Kennedy in the old Wards 5 and 6 in the Royal Victoria Hospital (now demolished) 2 when I was a student. They had strikingly different personalities-Mr Kennedy was more than a little daunting but both were constantly stimulating and renowned teachers. The teaching ward rounds revealed surgical cases in the true sense of...

625 Dynamic changes in synaptic strength are thought to provide a cellular basis for information storage in the nervous system. For example, long-term potentiation (LTP) of synaptic transmission is a long-lasting, activity-dependent form of synaptic plasticity that is expressed by all principal neurons in the hippocampus—a brain structure implicated in certain forms of long-term memory1. In the...

Words do not adequately describe our feelings of sadness and loss with the sudden and totally unexpected passing of Patrick G. Johnston, M.D., the President and Vice Chancellor of Queen’s University Belfast and one of the foremost medical oncologists, cancer center leaders, and educators of his generation. At age 58, “Paddy” was marching onward in his career with the sole aim of bringing his un...

EVOLUTION Correction for “Genome sequences of the human body louse and its primary endosymbiont provide insights into the permanent parasitic lifestyle,” by Ewen F. Kirkness, Brian J. Haas, Weilin Sun, Henk R. Braig, M. Alejandra Perotti, John M. Clark, Si Hyeock Lee, Hugh M. Robertson, Ryan C. Kennedy, Eran Elhaik, Daniel Gerlach, Evgenia V. Kriventseva, Christine G. Elsik, Dan Graur, Catherin...