Article history: The Central Atlantic magma Received 12 July 2008 Accepted 13 December 2008 Available online 13 January 2009

ecological destruction in human-dominated landscapes has significant impacts on environment sustainability internationally. landscape planning can play a role in mitigating the effects of human-related activities. one element of landscape planning involves the analysis of the biological, spatial and social arrangement of areas in an urban environment and identifying characteristics that are und...

BACKGROUND Because of the magnitude of the global tobacco epidemic, the World Health Organisation developed the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), an international legally binding treaty to control tobacco use. Adoption and implementation of specific tobacco control measures within FCTC is an outcome of a political process, where social norms and public opinion play important roles...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the benefit of PSA-based screening for prostate cancer from the patient and societal perspectives. METHOD A partially observable Markov decision process model was used to optimize PSA screening decisions. Age-specific prostate cancer incidence rates and the mortality rates from prostate cancer and competing causes were considered. The model trades off the potential benef...

Concern over the economics of accessing fossil fuel reserves, and widespread acceptance of the anthropogenic origin of rising CO2 emissions and associated climate change from combusting such carbon sources, is driving academic and commercial research into new routes to sustainable fuels to meet the demands of a rapidly rising global population. Here we discuss catalytic esterification and trans...

The purpose of this JIBS editorial is to outline the vision and mission new Societal Impact Advisory Committee (SIAC). We define “societal impact” as research that has potential effects outside academia, for example, on communities, economies, environments, other actors. propose societal impact especially important international business (IB) but also particularly challenging, given cross-natio...

In just a few decades there will be insufficient energy to meet increased worldwide demand. The obvious solutions include scavenging remaining resources while seeking new energy sources. Determining the true potential and effects of new and unknown energy resources will take some time. Moreover, use of existing resources and discovery of new ones bring high economic and environmental costs that...

Previous results for the prospects of B0s mixing measurement in the ATLAS experiment at LHC are updated. The improved analysis method of the studied decay channels B0s → D − s π + and B0s → D − s a + 1 , combined with most recent values for the branching ratios and the B0s lifetime, leads to the new ATLAS sensitivity range for the xs measurement: x max s = 42. An extensive study is done in orde...