In both the U.S. and Britain, Dr. Lydia Fowler was a leader in women's political health reform organizations temperance associations. Her publications, which targeted popular audience of women children, included self-help medical lectures guides, book poetry, novel Nora: The Lost Redeemed (1853). Nora represents broader fight surrounding temperance, but also arguments about alcohol abuse itself...

Much as Mark Twain famously stated that reports of his death were greatly exaggerated, it turns out that land animals in tropical protected areas may be better off than we thought. Current assessments warn of widespread biodiversity loss in the tropics—which is home to half of species globally—and put declines as high as 56% over the last four decades. But now, in this issue of PLOS Biology, Ly...

Potential short-term effects of intermittent UMTS electromagnetic fields (UMTS-EMF) on the cerebral blood circulation were assessed by near-infrared imaging. Different UMTS-EMF signals and exposure positions were applied in an exploratory study on eight subjects. Since no significant changes were found, the UMTS-EMF signal and the exposure position with the maximum changes in the measurement va...

Planning a collision-free path for a rigid or articulated robot to move from an initial to a final configuration in a static environment is a central problem in robotics and has been extensively addressed over the last. The complexity of the problem is NP-hard (Latombe, 1991). There exist several family sets of variations of the basic problem, that consider flexible robots, and where robots can...