Research frontiers and practical challenges in karst hydrogeology

Karst Hydrogeology and Geomorphology

New Challenges and Frontiers in the Research for Neuropsychiatric Disorders

To foster new ideas in the neurobiology of neuropsychiatric disorders, it is important to explore new hypothesis regarding the mechanisms of action of the candidate genes and to use appropriate substrates to test them. The use of animal models – even considering the genetic variability due to background and species – is critical to access the developmental brain, and to study the onset and prog...

Fisheye Interfaces - Research Problems and Practical Challenges

Fisheye interfaces give access to a large information structure by providing users with both local detail and global context. Despite decades of research in fisheye interfaces, their design and use are not well understood. To foster a discussion of fisheye views and their theoretical foundations, we identify five challenging areas in designing fisheye interfaces.

Frontiers and Challenges in Ar

Browman and Goldstein have outlined an account of the cognitive representation of words in which phonological and phonetic specification is isomorphic [see e.g. 1, 2]. Their Articulatory Phonology framework examines the hypothesis that linguistically significant vocal tract constrictions, or gestures, are the atomic units of phonological representation. And, using Saltzman’s Task Dynamics model...

Frontiers in Immunology – Grand Challenges

As a science, immunology has now matured to the point where the tremendous complexities of the immune system are apparent for the first time. This new awareness of the daunting orchestration of antigen recognition , and the tempo, magnitude, duration, and character of the response, which is controlled by leukocytotrophic hormones, has become possible only within the past 30 years, as a result o...