We hereby provide a two-year update on the HUPO Human Plasma Proteome Project (HPPP) informed by advances presented at the HPPP sessions at the HUPO World Congresses in Toronto in September 2009 and in Sydney in September 2010.

Fundación CANNA is a nonprofit initiative of CANNA, a multinational company producing high-quality fertilizers for fast growing plants. The Foundation carries out studies and conducts research on cannabis and its active compounds. Fundación CANNA supports different congresses, initiatives, and scientific studies to push forward the knowledge about cannabinoids as a medicine.

We propose that what makes an organism is nearly complete cooperation, with strong control of intraorganism conflicts, and no affiliations above the level of the organism as unified as those at the organism level. Organisms can be made up of like units, which we call fraternal organisms, or different units, making them egalitarian organisms. Previous definitions have concentrated on the factors...

Continuing professional development (CPD) or continuing professional education (CPE) refers to lifelong learning, which is done for professionals in order to update specialized knowledge, skills, attitudes, ethical issues, and moral values after admission to a particular profession. Therefore, due to the increasing growth of knowledge in all areas of specialization, particularly in the field of...

The professionalization of attention to the needs of children, which has taken place during the course of the twentieth century in areas such as health, education, law and social assistance, underwent an important conceptual development in the first decades of the twentieth century. In the field of social assistance, the structuring of the area of social services marked the introduction of a ne...

Acknowledgment The current work was carried out at the Department of Biological Chemistry of the University of Konstanz during the period of 1999-2002. Working there was at the same time instructional and fun, both of which being constantly upheld by my supervisor Prof. Dr. Volker Ullrich. Besides instructions, I like to thank him for his excellent support and working facilities he provided. I ...