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This result may seem paradoxical since increased phosphorylated AKT, due to inactivation of Pten , suppresses apoptosis and promotes proliferation.
If Edgar Degas longed to be "celebrated and unknown," it was Corot--a painter Degas greatly admired--who achieved this paradoxical wish.
These protections, enacted to encourage truth before trial, have the paradoxical effect , when publicized, of making Lewinsky appear crazy, mendacious, guilty, or some combination thereof.
Such information can not only help explain some of the paradoxical behavioural data of these ligands, but it can also explain the interaction of each ligand with a single receptor involved in modulation of the pain pathways.
The Prisoner's Dilemma (PD) has generated many hundreds of publications [ 1 2 ] spanning the biology, moral philosophy, sociology, economics and political science literature [ 1 3 4 5 6 ] . It received special attention because it sets paradoxical conditions to examine how and when cooperation can evolve even when a rational player is bound to defect.