1 Suzi Edwards, 2 Julie R Steele, 3 Jill Cook 4 Craig Purdam and 2 Deirdre E McGhee 1 School of Human Movement Studies, Charles Sturt University, Australia; 2 Biomechanics Research Laboratory, University of Wollongong, Australia; 3 University of Melbourne, Australia; 4 Department of Physical Therapies, Australian Institute of Sport, Australia. email: [email protected], web: www.csu.edu.au/f...

our planet is not lost on George McGhee, author of Convergent Evolution. This wonder is tempered, however, by the realization that the diversity of life on our planet, and possibly other planets, is constrained by several forces. This major theme is indicated in the subtitle “Limited Forms Most Beautiful,” a play on the words of Charles Darwin, “... endless forms most beautiful...,” in On the O...

The stability of proteins and their interactions with other molecules, especially with toxic ones, is a topic of special interest in biochemistry because many cellular processes depend on that. These interactions have immediate consequences for protein stability, as shown by varying the thermodynamic properties of the system. This fact provides an extra variable to study protein unfolding linke...

A prototypical finding of social cognition is that social experiences influence later performance even though those experiences are not introspectively available. Building on social cognition research on implicit attitudes, we evaluate whether ethnic category/attribute pairs influence eye movements during the Implicit Association Test (IAT, Greenwald, McGhee, & Schwartz 1998). Results show that...

B. Urbaszek, E. J. McGhee, M. Krüger, R. J. Warburton, K. Karrai, T. Amand, B. D. Gerardot, P. M. Petroff, and J. M. Garcia School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, United Kingdom Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée, LNMO-INSA-CNRS, 135 Avenue de Rangueil, 31077 Toulouse Cedex 4, France Center for NanoScience and Sektion Physik, Ludwig...

Polynucleosomes from calf brain cortical neurone nuclei have an average repeat length of less than 168 base pairs. The ability of this material to adopt higher order structure has been assessed by various physical techniques. Although containing on average less DNA per nucleosome than is required to form a chromatosome, this short repeat length chromatin folded in an H1 dependent manner to a st...

In this study, we examined the hypothesis that semantic judgment tasks share overlapping processes if they require processing on common dimensions but not if they require processing on orthogonal dimensions in semantic space (Osgood, Suci, & Tannenbaum, 1957). We tested the hypothesis with the implicit association test (IATl Greenwald, McGhee, & Schwartz, 1998) in three experiments. Consistent ...

We study the interaction of berberine and sanguinarine (plant alkaloids) with DNA in aqueous solutions, by using optical spectroscopy methods (absorption and fluorescence). The dependencies of alkaloid spectral characteristics on the concentration ratio N/c between the DNA base pairs and alkaloid molecules in the solutions are considered, and the manifestations of the alkaloid– DNA binding are ...

The Implicit Association Test (Greenwald, McGhee, & Schwartz, 1998) has become a popular tool for measuring implicit attitudes toward 2 contrasting concepts. In this study, we suggest including a neutral category (trees) to capture implicit evaluations of a single target attitude object. Using such a technique to measure implicit attitudes toward condoms, we predicted and found that explicit at...