Computer scientists, biologists, and natural resource managers recently met to examine the prospects for advancing computer science and information technology research by focusing on the complex and often-unique challenges found in the biodiversity and ecosystem domain. The workshop and its final report reveal that the biodiversity and ecosystem sciences are fundamentally information sciences a...

Developmental robotics is an emerging field located at the intersection of robotics, cognitive science and developmental sciences. This paper elucidates the main reasons and key motivations behind the convergence of fields with seemingly disparate interests, and shows why developmental robotics might prove to be beneficial for all fields involved. The methodology advocated is synthetic and two-...

Published: Trends Pharmacol Sci. 2014 Oct;35(10):537-547. doi: 1 10.1016/j.tips.2014.08.002. 2 3 Trends in Pharmacological Science – accepted version 4 5 P2X7 receptor: an emerging target in CNS diseases 6 7 by Beata Sperlagh and Peter Illes 8 9 Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian 10 Academy of Sciences, H-1450 Budapest, Hungary and Rudolf-Boehm-Institute 1...

      The present study aims to consider teaching skills workshops influencing Professors' performance of Babol Branch. Population of this study involved 120 faculty staff of Babol Branch in 2012-2013. The sample of this study was 35 persons who were chosen by random sampling. A researcher-made questionnaire was used as research tool. Based on Cronbach's alpha, the reliability of the st...

background: each group or profession has its own discourse. discourses create identity, support institutions and reproduce power relationships. professional identity of iranian nurses, which has recently had the opportunity to represent itself in social arena, needs investigation. this study aimed to make internal aspect of this identity clear. materials and methods: this study was conducted by...

Antimicrobial resistance and emerging infectious diseases, including avian influenza, Ebola virus disease, and Zika virus disease have significantly affected humankind in recent years. In the premodern era, no distinction was made between animal and human medicine. However, as medical science developed, the gap between human and animal science grew deeper. Cooperation among human, animal, and e...

Recent years have seen exciting breakthroughs in biomedical sciences that are producing truly novel therapeutics for unmet patient needs. However, the pharmaceutical industry is also facing significant barriers in the form of pricing and reimbursement, continued patent expirations and challenging market dynamics. In this article, we have analyzed data from the 1995-2015 period, on key aspects s...

FELT PROBLEM: Technology integration continues to be a challenge for health science faculty. While students expect emerging technologies to be used in the classroom, faculty members desire a strategic process to incorporate technology for the students' benefit. OUR SOLUTION: We have developed a model that provides faculty a strategy for integrating emerging technologies into the classroom. The ...

The use of XML as a vendor, implementation and operating system neutral means of describing system events and system management policies is described. The need for handling heterogeneity in emerging distributed systems by management solutions and the utility of XML in this regard is discussed. The design and architecture of a prototype implementation of a XML based policy-driven information ser...

Plants have been—and, for reasons of human sustenance and creative inspiration, will continue to be—centrally important to societies globally. Yet, plants— including herbs, shrubs, and trees—are commonly characterized in Western thought as passive, sessile, and silent automatons lacking a brain, as accessories or backdrops to human affairs. Paradoxically, the qualities considered absent in plan...