Festive research

Christmas is a time for giving. It is also, however, a time for enjoying the company of others and entering into the spirit of the festive season. These scientists are certainly doing that.

Tree, D.R., Shulman, J.M., Rousset, R. Scott, M.P. and Gubb, D. (2002). Prickle mediates feedback amplification to generate asymmetric planar cell polarity signaling. Cell 109, 371-381.

Conover, D.O. and Present, T.M.C. (1990). Countergradient variation in growth rate: compensation for length of the growing season among Atlantic silversides from different latitudes. Oecologia 83, 316-324.

Ruat, M., Molliver, M.E., Snowman, A.M. and Snyder, S.H. (1995). Calcium sensing receptor: Molecular cloning in rat and localization to nerve terminals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 92, 3161-3165.

Cracker, L.E. and Abeles, F.B. (1969). Abscission: role of abscisic acid. Plant Physiology 44, 1144-1149.

Bethlehem, J.G. and Keller, W.J. (1987). Linear weighting of sample survey data. Journal of Official Statistics 3, 141-153.

Raymond L. and Baubles, R.L. (1994). Displaced Persons: The Cost of Speculation in Charles Dickens’ “Martin Chuzzlewit” Money: Lure, Lore, and Literature. Ed. John Louis DiGaetan. Westport: Greenwood.

Franklin, D. and Chestnut, D.H. (1995). Analysis of statistical tests to compare visual analog scale measurements among groups. Anesthesiology 82, 896-902.

December, J. and Randall, N. (1995). The World-Wide Web unleashed (2nd ed.). Indianapolis. Sams.Net.

Meyer, J., Jücker, M., Ostertag, W. and Stocking, C. (1998). Carboxyl-truncated STAT5ß is generated by a nucleus-associated serine protease in early hematopoietic progenitors. Blood 91, 1901-1908.

Herod, A. (1997). Labor’s spatial praxis and the geography of contract bargaining in the US east coast longshore industry, 1953-89. Political Geography 16, 145-169.

Lok, S., Kaushansky, K., Holly, R.D., et al. (1994). Cloning and expression of murine thrombopoietin cDNA and stimulation of platelet production in vivo. Nature 369, 565-568.

Ivy, J.M., Klar, A.J. and Hicks, J.B. (1986). Cloning and characterization of four SIR genes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Molecular and Cellular Biology 6, 688-702.

Claus, S, Berges, R. Senge, T. and Schulze, H. (1997). Cell kinetic in epithelium and stroma of benign prost-atic hyperplasia. Journal of Urology 158, 217-221.

Devitt, J.E. and Advent, D.A. (1977). Effect of current palliative treatment on the survival of patients with breast cancer. Canadian Journal of Surgery 20, 46-50.

Tinsel, J., Laqua, D. and Bahr, R. (1995). Clinical aspects and therapy of Boerhaave syndrome. Leber Magen Darm 25, 132-133.

Loneragan, J.F. and Snowball, K. (1969). Calcium requirements of plants. Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 20, 465-478.

Partridge, R.B. (2002). Fighting pharaohs: weapons and warfare in ancient Egypt. Peartree Publishing, Manchester, UK.