Taste of power brings conflict to West Germany's Greens

Dell EMC Extreme Scale Infrastructure Brings Power to the Edge

A tale of two Germanys

Editor—The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the beginning of the end of communism in eastern Europe and in eastern Germany. As McKee and Fister point out, certain constellations of epidemiological and demographic variables characterise the resultant process of political and economic transition: low or even decreasing life expectancy (especially for men) and higher prevalences of alcoholis...

Using Power Laws to Estimate Conflict Size

Casualty counts are often controversial, and thorough research can only go so far in resolving such debates—there will almost always be missing data, and thus, a need to draw inferences about how comprehensively violence has been recorded. This article addresses that challenge by developing an estimation strategy based on the observation that violent events are generally distributed according t...

Paxillin brings peace to microtubules

Lipid droplets ensure their own consumption H ungry yeast cells use a clever form of recycling to ensure that they can keep consuming stored lipids, Wang et al. show. Lean times spur yeast cells to enter a quiescent state known as the stationary phase. They break down cached lipids by delivering lipid droplets to the vacuole and resort to autophagy, in which they digest a portion of their own c...

Integrating statistical genetic and geospatial methods brings new power to phylogeography.

The field of phylogeography continues to grow in terms of power and accessibility. Initially uniting population genetics and phylogenetics, it now spans disciplines as diverse as geology, statistics, climatology, ecology, physiology, and bioinformatics to name a few. One major and recent integration driving the field forward is between "statistical phylogeography" and Geographic Information Sys...