Orchestrating an Attack

Editorial : MMP 28 and macrophage polarization : orchestrating the attack of the mac

Macrophages play an important and complex role in the maintenance of tissue homeostasis. These cells are remarkably heterogeneous, and in response to cues present in the local microenvironment, they adopt a wide variety of functions to orchestrate such processes as antimicrobial defense and pathogen killing, regulation of tumorigenesis, allergic inflammation, autoimmunity, atherosclerosis, and ...

Orchestrating Lean Implementation

The notion of Lean Manufacturing is not merely confined to a set of well defined techniques, but represents a broad approach to managing a company. Working with lean entails many aspects, such as production planning and control, production engineering, product development, supply chain, and organizational issues. To become effective, many functional areas and departments must be involved. At th...

Orchestrating Inquiry Learning

Astrocytes: Orchestrating synaptic plasticity?

Synaptic plasticity is the capacity of a preexisting connection between two neurons to change in strength as a function of neural activity. Because synaptic plasticity is the major candidate mechanism for learning and memory, the elucidation of its constituting mechanisms is of crucial importance in many aspects of normal and pathological brain function. In particular, a prominent aspect that r...

Orchestrating Inquiry-Based Learning Spaces: An Analysis of Teacher Needs

The European Go-Lab project offers Inquiry Learning Spaces (ILSs) as open educational resources to support Inquiry-based Learning (IBL). To successfully exploit ILSs and implement IBL, proper support for orchestration is needed. Researchers have highlighted the complexity of orchestrating Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) scenarios and the need for supporting participants in this endeavour. In...