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Mothering style and methylation.
Frequent licking and grooming by rat mothers increases the number of
hippocampal glucocorticoid receptors in their pups, leading to tighter
regulation of stress hormone levels. A study in this issue shows that
this treatment alters DNA methylation of the glucocorticoid receptor
gene and acetylation of histones early in life, providing a mechanism
for these permanent changes in stress responses. [Nature Neuroscience]
7:18:11 PM Google It!.
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A strategic vision for dynamic languages.
As operating systems consolidate around managed interfaces, they'll
choose the Java and .Net VMs, not the Perl, Python, or PHP VMs. But the
agility of the dynamic languages and the collaborative energy of their
open source communities are two of the pistons that crank the engine of
progress. These worlds need to converge -- and at the O'Reilly Open
Source Conference there was new evidence that they will. Jim Hugunin,
father of Jython (Python for JVM), made a pair of dramatic
announcements. He has released the first version of IronPython (Python
for CLR/Mono). And by the time you read this, he'll have started his
new job at Microsoft. Good hire! [Full story at InfoWorld.com]
In my keynote talk at the Vancouver Python Workshop,
I stressed the strategic importance of integrating dynamic languages
with the Java and .NET runtimes. I've written a lot about dynamic
languages and yet, when asked to define what they are and why they
matter, I struggle. So from now on, I'm going to point people to this whitepaper by David Ascher, who is the managing director of ActiveState and led the development of Komodo, a Mozilla-based IDE (integrated development environment) for dynamic languages.
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RSS feeds from Nature. The Nature Publishing Group now offers free RSS feeds
for all its life-science journals and will soon expand the program to
its other titles. From the press release: "[T]he listing of newsfeeds
is accessible as an OPML file to facilitate the ready import of NPG
newsfeeds into RSS newsreaders. A master RSS newsfeed of all NPG
newsfeeds is also available for alerting subscribers to new NPG
newsfeeds. These newsfeeds are all based on the RSS 1.0 format which
builds on the W3C Resource Description Framework and allows rich
metadata to be included at
both the channel and item level....We have also developed a jobs
metadata term set (including such terms as 'offeredBy', 'city',
'country', 'postedOn, 'expiresOn', etc) and make use of these terms in
the jobs newsfeeds. We would like to work with
other partners to define a new RSS module aimed at providing a fuller
description of jobs information. Linking to the article full text is
effected using industry-standard mechanisms for persistent linking: DOI
and
CrossRef." [Open Access News]
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© Copyright 2004 Bruce Landon.
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