Contributions in biogeochemical research have immensely benefited humankind, including enhanced food production and the quality of our environment. This overview paper focuses on recent breakthroughs in elucidating biogeochemical processes in soils and other natural materials and delineates frontiers for the present decade and beyond. Frontiers will undoubtedly involve multiple spatial and temp...

Because of the wide diversity of activities involved in telemedicine, it is critical that a systematic framework be developed for use in evaluating its effectiveness, efficiency, and feasibility. Historically, clinical trial research in medicine has focused on the issues of the safety, efficacy, and effectiveness of medical technologies. Recently, medical research has been broadened to include ...

The mission of the Biomedical engineering group (BME) is to carry out top-level basic, applied and translational research in biomedical engineering. The aim is to develop, apply and evaluate novel biomedical measurement technologies in health and wellbeing. The research is interdisciplinary and focuses on measurement problems with the cardiovascular system, central nervous system, respiratory s...

Information technologies are playing an increasingly important role in preventing, detecting, and managing infectious disease outbreaks. This paper presents a collaborative infectious disease informatics project led by an interdisciplinary team of information systems researchers and public health researchers and practitioners. This project has resulted in a research prototype called the WNV-BOT...

Technologies for biological research arise in multiple ways-through serendipity, through inspired insights, and through incremental advances-and they are tightly coupled to progress in engineering. Underlying the complex dynamics of technology and biology are the different motivations of those who work in the two realms. Consideration of how methodologies emerge has implications for the plannin...

The Cluster of Excellence (CoE) ̈Tailor-Made Fuels from Biomass ̈ (TMFB) takes an interdisciplinary research approach towards new synthetic fuels based on biomass feedstock. New target-designed synthesis pathways, employing novel catalytic systems, reaction solvents and tightly integrated production processes, which embed intensified process units for fuel production, are considered to create new...

Contributions in biogeochemical research have immensely benefited humankind, including enhanced Food production and the quality of our environment. This overview paper focuses on recent breakthroughs in elucidating biogeochemical processes in soils and other natural materials and delineates frontiers for the present decade and beyond. Frontiers will undoubtedly involve multiple spatial and temp...

a Interdisciplinary Centre for Health Technology Assessment and Public Health, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany b Department of Computer Science 7, Computer Networks and Communication Systems, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany c Siemens AG, Healthcare, Erlangen, Germany d National Cluster of Excellence, Medical Technologies —Medical Valley EMN', Erlangen, Ge...

Abstract The Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) is an interdisciplinary research center within the UC Berkeley Department of Music. The past year has seen a notable increase in live presentations at CNMAT, including concerts of original new music, lectures, seminars, receptions, workshops, and demonstrations by local and visiting scholars. The heightened degree of interaction h...

Emerging technologies from optics, genetics, and bioengineering are being combined for studies of intact neural circuits. The rapid progression of such interdisciplinary "optogenetic" approaches has expanded capabilities for optical imaging and genetic targeting of specific cell types. Here we explore key recent advances that unite optical and genetic approaches, focusing on promising technique...