Vaccines are among the most cost-effective health measures, saving millions of lives each year (WHO). Immunization has led to the eradication of smallpox and poliomyelitis. Immunization also contributes to broader economic benefits and increased cognitive abilities [1,2]. However, the benefits of vaccines are often not fully valued as evidenced by public concerns regarding vaccine safety, quali...

Himalaya and the Tibetan Plateau, known as ‘land of snow’ ‘roof world’, is home to tens millions indigenous people who live with a staggering amount biological diversity. In past decade scientists have applied genomic tools methods substantially advance understanding phylogeography genetic mechanisms behind high-elevation adaptation local biota. However, contributions from researchers native in...

•A method for electrical-bias-dependent photoluminescence microscopy is introduced•The enables imaging of the local photocurrent in solar cells•Time-resolved charge-extraction demonstrated perovskite cells•Electrical coupling at interfaces and surface recombination revealed Spatial characterization methods are essential a deeper understanding physical phenomena quality control opto-electric dev...

This essay argues that Ælfric’s discussion of priestly marriage demonstrates an Anglo-Saxon articulation of the difference between Jews and Christians as sexual difference. Ælfric represents temporally distant Biblical Jews as embodying a kinship-based heterosexuality that has been superseded by and is now opposed by Christian chastity and asexual reproduction. This supersession operates throug...

The author discusses the architectural plans of the Mundaneum made in the 1930s by the Belgian modernist architect Maurice Heymans in the footsteps of Le Corbusier and in collaboration with Paul Otlet. The Mundaneum was the utopian concept of a world center for the accumulation, organization, and dissemination of knowledge, invented by the visionary encyclopedist and internationalist Paul Otlet...

Embryomorphic Engineering, a particular instance of Morphogenetic Engineering, takes its inspiration directly from biological development to create new robotic, software or network architectures by decentralized self-assembly of elementary agents. At its core, it combines three key principles of multicellular embryogenesis: chemical gradient diffusion (providing positional information to the ag...