Stored-Product Entomology—The Challenge of the Next Decade

Challenge of the decade.

Nonlinear optics: the next decade.

This paper concludes the Focus Serial assembled of invited papers in key areas of nonlinear optics (Editors: J.M. Dudley and R.W. Boyd), and it discusses new directions for future research in this field.

Lyme disease: the next decade

Although Lyme disease remains a controversial illness, recent events have created an unprecedented opportunity to make progress against this serious tick-borne infection. Evidence presented during the legally mandated review of the restrictive Lyme guidelines of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) has confirmed the potential for persistent infection with the Lyme spirochete, Borre...

Helping pregnant smokers quit: meeting the challenge in the next decade.

Throughout the past decade, smoking has remained the single most important modifiable cause of poor pregnancy outcome in the USA. It accounts for 20% of low birth weight deliveries, 8% of preterm births, and 5% of all perinatal deaths. New studies have found that maternal smoking during pregnancy contributes to sudden infant death syndrome and may cause important changes in fetal brain and nerv...

Sustaining Earth’s life support systems – the challenge for the next decade and beyond

Integration, interdiscplinarity, and a systems approach mark the emerging ethos in IGBP as the Programme evolves rapidly into its second decade of international global change research. In late February in Cuernavaca, Mexico, the Scientific Committee of the IGBP held a landmark meeting in which it was decided that the strength and maturity of the Programme would allow an increased emphasis on th...