Leading Article: An Environmental Court Could Protect Us from the Bias of PoliticiansTHE GOVERNMENT prides itself on its ability to listen. All too often, however, it seems determined not to do so. As reported in The Independent today, Lord Woolf, the Lord Chief Justice, has called for an ...
female subjects in basic research may stem from a hard-wired sex/gender bias, which may also be reflected in a similar attitude toward female scientists. We suggest exploring the possibility that by dismantling sex bias and male dominance in basic research one would get an additional handle on ...
Article pubs.acs.org/biochemistry Amino Acid Determinants of Substrate Selectivity in the S Supporting InformationThe substrate selectivity of four Trypanosoma brucei sphingolipid synthases was examined. TbSLS1, an inositol phosphorylceramide (IPC) synthase, and TbSLS4, a bifunctional sphingomyelin (SM)...
Article 01/31/2019 June 2016 Volume 31 Number 6 [Editor's Note] Cognitive Bias By Michael Desmond | June 2016 In my last column (msdn.com/magazine/mt703429), I described how efforts to control the coolant loss event at the Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear plant in 1979 were shaped ...
Visual search is ubiquitous in human life, from everyday events (e.g., Where’s Waldo? Is there a typo in this article?) to professional settings (e.g., Does this bag contain a prohibited item for the airport? If so, where and what is it?). In a variety of visual search situati...
And though we do not propose to straightforwardly answer the questions, we do hope to point research in the right direction, by moving the spotlight away from the text. In this article, we are using the term text in two different, related senses. At its simplest (and up to this point...
To analyze patient perspectives of the use of financial incentives in a hypertension intervention. Study Setting. Twelve Veterans Affairs primary care clinics over a 9-month period.Qualitative semistructured interviews conducted with 54 hypertensive veterans participating in an intervention to promote guide...
Participants signed an electronic informed consent sheet and then provided demographic information (eg, age). Next, in the following order, they completed the PAQ, BSSS, BAS-2, PCS, FPQ, Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding-6 Impression Management Subscale, IISI-R, PROMIS Depression and ...
We conducted comprehensive simulation studies to compare the performance of XMAP with several related fine-mapping methods, including DAP-G, FINEMAP, SuSiE, SuSiE-inf, PAINTOR, MsCAVIAR, and SuSiEx. We also included an ad-hoc method that takes the union of the SNPs separately identified in di...
We discuss the implications of mutational bias as an evolutionary driver in other cis-regulatory systems.Similar content being viewed by others Alternative splicing modulation by G-quadruplexes Article Open access 03 May 2022 The intronic branch point sequence is under strong evolutionary constraint ...