The transcontinental scientist

Transcontinental crashes of insect populations?

Stereotypic Images of the Scientist : The Draw - A - Scientist Test *

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries visual and verbal images of the scientist were many and varied. Caricaturists, cartoonists, artists, and writers produced a diverse range of stereotypic figures: diabolical madmen, distinguished professors, harmless eccentrics, learned buffoons, and fashionable dilettantes. Naturalists in the field among flora and fauna were often pictured, as were...

Transcontinental Movement of Asian Genotype Chikungunya Virus

6. Nakajima R, Tsuji M, Oda K, ZamotoNiikura A, Wei Q, Kawabuchi-Kurata T, et al. Babesia microti–group parasites compared phylogenetically by complete sequencing of the CCTeta gene in 36 isolates. J Vet Med Sci. 2009;71:55–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1292/jvms.71.55 7. Hirata H, Kawai S, Maeda M, Jinnai M, Fujisawa K, Katakai Y, et al. Identification and phylogenetic analysis of Japanese macaque ...

The Information Scientist

NUMERICAL VS. ALPHABETIC ORDER FOR CITED REFERENCES Sir,-in discussing citation practices of journals, O'Donoghue (1) clairrrs that he has never met anyone who preferred the numbered arrangement of papers in scientific journals. May I introduce him to someone who has? It's all quite pragmatic. It is faster to search a sequentially numbered list than it is to scan an alphabetical list of names. ...

Zorba the Greek scientist

I begin by stating that I have not regretted coming back to Greece after 17 years of working abroad and that I have no plans to seek employment in another country. I still enjoy both living in and doing science in Greece. Having said that, let me say that most non-Greeks to whom I describe my life as a researcher tend to see in me a clear-cut case of schizophrenia. How can one plan anything in ...