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Abstract Although biological invasions have been identified as a cause of biodiversity erosion, they are often overlooked or even ignored by decision-makers and the general public. The economy is both responsible for and a victim of biological invasions, …

Abstract Divine and royal statuary is an integral part of the Egyptian temple. The temples we visit today may have kept their walls, and sometimes even their ceilings, but most of them are almost completely emptied of their rich furnishings, which …

Abstract After an incursion into tragedies that evoke human sacrifice, animal sacrifice is analyzed in three tragedies: Aeschylus' Agamemnon , Euripides' Electra and Sophocles' Antigone . The Agamemnon , in which the human sacrifice of Iphigenia is …

Abstract While men are more likely than women to suffer a myocardial infarction, women are more likely than men to die as a result. A sociological analysis based on interviews with women and men who have recently been affected by this pathology sheds …

Abstract How can we explain the fact that, even when the severity and management of a stroke are equivalent, members of the working classes recover less well than those from the middle and upper classes, and women less than men  ? That social properties …

Abstract Surface-initiated polymerization is a unique way to produce thin, functional polymer films. As polymer chains are grown from surfaces that are modified with initiators or chain transfer agents to mediate chain growth, this process ensures a …

Abstract Many drugs or drug candidates have physico-chemical characteristics that are unfavorable to the passage of the biological barriers that separate the site of administration from the site of pharmacological action. These mechanical, …

© The International Court of Justice. Hilary Charlesworth is invited by the assembly of the Collège de France on the proposal of Pr   Samantha Besson. Abstract This lecture will examine some of the general criticisms levelled at the International Court of …

Résumé Self-assembling polymer-based nanosystems, particularly polymer micelle-type drug delivery systems (PM-DDS), have emerged as powerful platforms for the smart delivery of therapeutic agents. Constructed through the spontaneous organization of …

Sam Stupp Samuel Stupp is Board of Trustees Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry, Medicine, and Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University. He also directs Northwestern's Center for Regenerative Nanomedicine. Stupp's …

Abstract Amyloid fibrils interact with metal ions via metal-ligand supramolecular interactions whose energy is of the order of tens to hundreds of KBT. The occurrence of the 20 essential amino acids in food-based amyloid fibrils derived from inexpensive …

Abstract Our lab has pursued development of methods to allow selective incorporation of diverse functionality into synthetic polypeptide materials. Specifically, we have developed synthetic methods that allow a robust variety of modifications to …