Editor's Desk: Highlights

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Gary W. Miller Connectivity mapping to group chemicals using mode of action: The 2007 US National Research Council report “Toxicology Testing in the 21 Century” called for a shift in toxicology testing from a focus on apical outcomes in animals to an approach based on a mechanistic understanding in humans. In support of this, various terminologies have emerged, which evolve the existing mode of...

Guest Editors' Introduction: Highlights of the 50th DAC

h DAC CONTINUES TO play a unique role as an information sharing forum, where the wide range of its offerings allows DAC participants to learn, network and conduct business. In the past 50 years, DAC has been evolved from being an EDA conference to becoming more of a design ecosystem conference and extending into design methods, IP, foundries, design services, and Embedded Systems & Software (ES...

Editors note

EDITOR’S NOTE Geopersia is published biannually by the College of Science, University of Tehran, Iran. The College of Science published “Journal of Science”, which covered all fields of basic science, from 1968 to 2010. It was then decided that the College’s journals should be more specialized, and hence publication of Geopersia was launched. Geopersia aims to publish peer-reviewed original...

FROM THE DESK OF THE GUEST EDITORS Evolution of a Theory: HowMeasurement Has Shaped Ayres Sensory Integration

Scientific theory evolves through phases. Scientists observe phenomena, classify their observations, examine and explain causation, and attempt to understand their results in varied circumstances. If anomalies are found that do not mesh with the theory, revision occurs, and the theory is improved (Christensen, Carlile, & Sundahl, 2001). Each stage requires accurate and precise measurement and, ...