Casting your network wide: a plea to scale-up phenological research

Casting your network wide: a plea to scale-up phenological research

Accumulating scientific evidence has demonstrated widespread shifts in the biological seasons. These shifts may modify seasonal interspecific interactions, with consequent impacts upon reproductive success and survival. However, current understanding of these impacts is based upon a limited number of studies that adopt a simplified 'bottom-up' food-chain paradigm, at a local scale. I argue that...

Casting a Wide Net to Fight Coronaviruses

October 2005 | Volume 3 | Issue 10 | e347 | e353 Viewed under a microscope, the coronavirus appears almost beautiful, thanks to the halo-like crown formed by its surface proteins. (“Corona” means “crown” in Latin.) Aesthetics aside, this genus of viruses is responsible for a wide range of animal and human diseases, from the common cold to the deadly severe acute respiratory syndrome, familiarly...

Production Scale Up of Nanofibers: A Review

How to Spice up your Planning under Uncertainty Research Life

Does planning under uncertainty have you down? Is your “state-of-the-art” uncertain planner slugglish in comparison to that peppy deterministic replanner that you wish would just go away? Do you feel like the world would just be better off without uncertain planners? Before you take drastic measures (and switch research topics), you should take a moment to read this short position paper. Planni...

Writing up your research results for publication.

The abstract is the entire paper reduced to its essence and may be all that many readers will see. It Manuscript received November 3, 2008; revision accepted November 8, 2008. Affiliations: From the Division of Physiology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA. © 2009 American College of Chest Physicians. Reproduction of this article is prohibited without wri...