Abstract To address complex problems, scholars are increasingly faced with challenges of integrating diverse domains. We analyzed the evolution this convergence paradigm in ecosystem brain science, a research frontier that provides contemporary testbed for evaluating two modes cross-domain integration: (a) cross-disciplinary collaboration among experts from academic departments associated dispa...

Recent projections suggest that by 2035 global health will look dramatically different than it does today. In what's called a 'grand convergence' the world is likely to be characterized by far more similarities than differences in the prevailing health and medical problems across populations. This manuscript considers how key drivers for vaccine use and uptake might change as a result of the gr...

La conception de très grand systèmes d’apprentissage pose un grand nombre de problèmes non résolus. Savons nous, par exemple, construire un algorithme qui “regarde” la télévision pendant quelques semaines et apprend à énumérer les objets présents dans ces images. Les lois d’échelles de nos algorithmes ne nous permettent pas de traiter les quantités massives de données que cela implique. L’expér...

The grand challenge in global health is the inequality in mortality and life expectancy between countries and within countries. According to Global Health 2035, the Lancet Commission celebrating the 20(th) anniversary of the World Development Report (WDR) of 1993, the world now has the unique opportunity to achieve a grand convergence in global mortality within a generation. This article commen...

In December 2013, the Commission on Investing in Health—a group of 25 economists and global health experts chaired by former United States Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers and health economist Dean Jamison—published its report, called “Global Health 2035” [1]. The report set out an ambitious investment framework for achieving what the authors called a “grand convergence in global health” by ...

BACKGROUND The Commission on Investing in Health published its report, GlobalHealth2035, in 2013, estimating an investment case for a grand convergence in health outcomes globally. In support of the drafting of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we estimate what the grand convergence investment case might achieve-and what investment would be required-by 2030. METHODS AND FINDINGS Our p...

The Holy Grail to address the clinical grand challenge of human limb loss is to develop innovative strategies to regrow the amputated limb. The remarkable advances in the scientific understanding of regeneration, stem cell science, material science and engineering, physics and novel surgical approaches in the past few decades have provided a regenerative tool box to face this grand challenge an...

Consider a charged, perfect quantum gas, in the effective mass approximation, and in the grand-canonical ensemble. We prove in this paper that the generalized magnetic susceptibilities admit the thermodynamic limit for all admissible fugacities, uniformly on compacts included in the analyticity domain of the grand-canonical pressure. The problem and the proof strategy were outlined in [3]. In [...