More fossil specimens and an eagerly awaited age for Homo naledi raise new questions and open fresh opportunities for paleoanthropologists.

A workshop has explored interactions of materials science, applied mechanics, physics and mathematics in understanding fundamentals of martensitic transformations. System theory offers a framework for addressing realistic complexity. Theory of invariant-plane kinematics has been extended to multivariant plate groups and hierarchical structures. Electronic total energy calculations explore the o...

E-books are commonly perceived as offering great potential for learner support but also as struggling to compete with print due to poor on-screen presentation, restrictive licencing and limited range of titles offered. The experience of a group of Irish university libraries shows that, with the right combination of product and subjects, e-books can thrive among students and faculty, while libra...

This paper argues that the answers to interesting questions about real auctions depend, often critically, on the particular mathematical assumptions that go into a model of an auction situation. It then suggests some understudied areas for fruitful mathematical research on competitive bidding. These include asymmetry, financially constrained bidders, complicated information structures, bidder d...

As science education incorporates more inquiry-based activities throughout the curriculum, students gain important opportunities to take active roles in scientific research via independent research courses and summer research, as well as within traditional lab courses. While some industrious student researchers will experience the process of publishing their research in a scientific journal, th...

The acceptance of the solid-phase format in various areas of clinical chemistry is the consequence of the advantages of this test format, which include stability of the reagents, unitized packaging, convenient and small instruments, and minimal preparations by users before testing. Overall, these advantages provide very convenient tests. Future successful uses of solid-phase reagents depend upo...

This paper focuses on the study of information in fleeting opportunities. An application example is the evaluation of business proposals by venture capitalists. The authors formulate the generic problem as a dynamic program where the decision maker can either accept a given deal directly, reject it directly, or seek further information on its potential and then decide whether to accept it or no...

Experimental Opportunities Molecular Markers, Fibrous Cap Rupture, and the Vulnerable Plaque : New Print ISSN: 0009-7330. Online ISSN: 1524-4571 Copyright © 2001 American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved. is published by the American Heart Association, 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 75231 Circulation Research 2001;89:471-473 Circ Res. http://circres.ahajournals.org/content/89/6/4...

abstract rapid changes in the science and technology and considering sport as a profession clues new challenge for sport policy-makers. in this situation, intellectual property and particularly human capital are among the most important organizational assets. the purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of intellectual capital on entrepreneurial opportunities recognition in sport industr...