From the Gifford Laboratories of the Touchstone Center for Diabetes Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX 75390-8854; Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism, University Medical Center, 1 rue Michel Servet, 1211-Geneva 4, Switzerland; Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390; ...

Dominant psychoanalytic paradigms locate the breast or penis/phallus as the touchstone for gender/sex/sexual development. This essay offers a critique of these accounts and an alternative theory of sexed forms of being: pregnancy envy and the kinship rules that result from this. The essay also provides an intellectual history of how previous efforts to theorize pregnancy envy, especially work b...

We define cultural entrepreneurship as the process of storytelling that mediates between extant stocks of entrepreneurial resources and subsequent capital acquisition and wealth creation. We propose a framework that focuses on how entrepreneurial stories facilitate the crafting of a new venture identity that serves as a touchstone upon which legitimacy may be conferred by investors, competitors...

Mobile health has recently gained a lot of attention. Biological, environmental and behavioral data collected from mobile devices can be analyzed and transmitted directly to the person, family or health professionals for immediate and individualized care. However, due to multiplicity of mobile applications and the heterogeneity of actors involved in patient’s care, conflicts among the privacy p...

The touchstone of the judgement of the Court of Justice in Gourmet has to be seen as a revolution of Article 28. It provides particularly significant new insights into the criteria of this Article. In this judgement, the court of Justice has begun to use a more realistic and flexible approach instead of formalistic method. It is a revolution that replaces the selling arrangement with market acc...

The Short Secret Sharing Protocols (S3P), proposed by Roe et al in 1998 [13] and revised in 2003 [14], is a family of protocols that bootstrap secure session keys from weak secrets such as passwords. In this letter, we describe an attack against the RSA variants of the S3P protocols. The attacker can successfully masquerade as one of the participants, establish a new session, and gain knowledge...

An ab initio protein structure prediction procedure, TOUCHSTONE, was applied to all 85 small proteins of the Mycoplasma genitalium genome. TOUCHSTONE is based on a Monte Carlo refinement of a lattice model of proteins, which uses threading-based tertiary restraints. Such restraints are derived by extracting consensus contacts and local secondary structure from at least weakly scoring structures...