Research Spotlight: Improving analysis of Earth's surface displacement

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Introduction Recent natural and man-made disastrous events underscore the importance of emergency evacuation planning and management for buildings and facilities (Averill et al., 2005). Although building codes include provisions for egress design, their prescriptive nature poses many limitations in terms of providing effective evacuation for specific buildings, each of which is unique. Human be...

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Surface biosignatures of exo-earths: remote detection of extraterrestrial life.

Exoplanet discovery has made remarkable progress, with the first rocky planets having been detected in the central star's liquid water habitable zone. The remote sensing techniques used to characterize such planets for potential habitability and life rely solely on our understanding of life on Earth. The vegetation red edge from terrestrial land plants is often used as a direct signature of lif...

SPOTLIGHT REVIEW Research priorities in sarcomeric cardiomyopathies

Department of Physiology, Institute for Cardiovascular Research (ICaR-VU), VU University Medical Center, van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands; ICIN-Netherlands Heart Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Cardiology, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA; Referral Ce...