Population aging evokes doomsday economic and sociological prognostication, despite a minority of older people suffering significant dependency and the potential for advances in therapeutics of age-related disease and primary aging. Biological aging processes are linked mechanistically to altered drug handling, altered physiological reserve, and pharmacodynamic responses. Parenteral loading dos...

Dressed in white, hooded ‘‘personal protection suits,’’ Greenpeace activists donned goggles, gloves, and respiratory masks—the kind of dress you expect to see in the clean zone of a nanotechnology laboratory, not in a field in bucolic northeast Thailand. Easily bridging a barbed wire fence with a stepladder, they began pulling transgenic papaya (Carica papaya) from the trees, throwing the fruit...

Here is a firm but qualified assertion. Scientists are often too hasty to criticize the media for inaccuracy and sensationalism in handling scientific issues. The assertion is qualified because some articles and programmes deserve condemnation. But it is firmly made because angry reactions are often disproportionate to alleged offences by the media, and in many cases are entirely misplaced. Con...

For several generations Australians have generated powerful depictions of a region they have variously called “the islands,” “the South Seas,” or “the South Pacific.” The most recent characterization is embedded in a forthright salvationist message that warns of an approaching “doomsday” or “nightmare” unless Pacific Islanders remake themselves—just as Australians have had to. Like earlier Aust...

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The recent success of neural networks in applications such as speech recognition, vision and autonomous navigation has led to great excitement by members of the artificial intelligence (AI) community and the general public at large. Over a relatively short period, by the science clock, we managed to automate some tasks that have defied us for decades and using one of the more classical techniqu...

Our Universe is a vast, tantalizing enigma - mystery that has aroused humankind's innate curiosity for eons. Begging questions on alien lifeforms have been thus far unfruitful, even with the bounding advancements we embarked upon in recent years. Coupled logical assumption and calculations such as made by Dr. Frank Drake starting early 1960s, evidence millions should exist our galaxy alone, yet...

Reflecting on the many debates over years changing urbanization processes, towns and cities of yesterday, today, tomorrow, main challenge will be listening to lessons wisdom from past adapting these our future professional work. When Chief Seattle said that Earth does not belong us, we Earth, he called for more humility respect so as plan needs today greed a few. The doomsday scenarios overpopu...

One of the most significant unsolved problems for network managers and system administrators is how to repair a network infrastructure after discovering evidence of an extensive compromise. The technical issues are compounded by a breathtaking variety of human factors. We highlight lessons learned from three real, significant, and recent intrusion incidents. We do so as a way to expose the diff...