BACKGROUND Global health diplomacy (GHD) is a burgeoning field bridging the priorities of global health and foreign affairs. Given the increasing need to mobilize disparate global health stakeholders coupled with the need to design complex public health partnerships to tackle issues of international concern, effective and timely cooperation among state actors is critical. Health Attachés repres...

Fabry–Pérot resonator Brian S. Dennis, Vladimir Aksyuk, Michael I. Haftel, Stephan T. Koev, and Girsh Blumberg Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, USA University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80918, US...

D. C. Karampinos, K. F. King, B. P. Sutton, and J. G. Georgiadis Mechanical Science and Engineering Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Applied Science Laboratory, General Electric Healthcare, Waukesha, WI, United States, Bioengineering Department, University ...

Computer literacy plays a critical role in today's life sciences research. Without the ability to use computers to efficiently manipulate and analyze large amounts of data resulting from biological experiments and simulations, many of the pressing questions in the life sciences could not be answered. Today's undergraduates, despite the ubiquity of computers in their lives, seem to be largely un...

There has been substantial public debate about the susceptibility of research to biases of various kinds. The dialogue has extended to the peer-reviewed literature, scientific conferences, the mass media, government advisory bodies, and beyond. While biases can come from myriad sources, the overwhelming focus of the discussion, to date, has been on industry-funded science. Given the critical ro...

Hejazi E1, Amaani R2, Sharafodin-zadeh N3 1. M.sc Student of Nutritional Sciences, Department of Nutritional, Faculty of Para-Medicine, Jondi-shapour University of Medical Sciences 2. Associate Professor, Department of Nutritional, Faculty of Para-Medicine, Jondi-shapour University of Medical Sciences 3. Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Jondi-shapour University...

Structural reliability depends on uncertainties in resistance and loads. In many practical cases the resistance dominates and a reduction of uncertainty about resistance is an effective way of increasing safety. It can be accomplished by proof loading. A truncated distribution is considered and reliability indices are calculated for various proof load levels. The structural reliability is sensi...

T he aphorism Publish or perish usually applies to individual investigators whose scientific careers are closely linked to their production in terms of papers in high quality journals. I will try to show that – mutatis mutandis – it applies equally to journals themselves. There are many ways of calculating journal impact, most of which are based on reference counting. The most popular ranking p...

BACKGROUND Knee osteotomies are proven treatment options, especially in younger patients with unicompartmental knee osteoarthritis, for certain cases of chronic knee instability, or as concomitant treatment for meniscal repair or transplantation surgery. Presumably, these patients wish to stay active. Data on whether these patients return to sport (RTS) activities and return to work (RTW) are s...

Bi1-xCaxFeO3-x/2 (x!0.1) Kripasindhu Sardar, Jiawang Hong , Gustau Catalan, P.K. Biswas, Martin R. Lees, Richard I. Walton , James F. Scott and Simon A. T. Redfern * Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK Department of Physics and Astronomy , Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 136 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019 USA 3 ICREA and Centre d'Inv...