A survey was conducted on 210 Baby Boomers (Age mean = 51.4 Std. dev. 5.46) within the United States to determine their current use of online technology in social interactions, their preferences in these interactions, and the expectations they have of near-future online communication technologies. The findings highlight the importance of online communication in their lives and spotlight their w...

Anneke Horstman, Mengfan Li, Iris Heidmann, Mieke Weemen, Baojian Chen, Jose M. Muino, Gerco C. Angenent, and Kim Boutilier Wageningen University and Research, Bioscience, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands Wageningen University and Research, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands Enza Zaden Research and Development, 1602 DB Enkhuizen, The Netherlands Max Planck I...

We present a simple procedure to construct non-local conserved charges for classical open strings on coset spaces. This is done by including suitable reflection matrices on the classical transfer matrix. The reflection matrices must obey certain conditions for the charges to be conserved and in involution. We then study bosonic open strings on AdS5×S. We consider boundary conditions correspondi...

The combination of brain imaging and genetics promises to identify neural mechanisms underlying complex traits such as cognition and psychiatric disorder. The study by Heck et al. (2014) in this issue of Neuron highlights voltage-gated cation channel activity as a likely link and culprit.

This paper is an attempt to chronicle and evaluate the struggle to innovate, to understand and to produce a sustainable response to the pressing problems of the care and protection of an aging population. In that struggle, quite distinct world views of the lived experience of the older person and their families and carers, the pressures and challenges of practitioners, on managers and planners ...

axonomy, the science of identifying and naming entities , has long been an integral component of biologic sciences, both in botany and zoology. Not all biologists are actively engaged in taxonomy (only a few truly enjoy working in this field), yet everyone, even lay persons, recognizes the value of consistency and standardization in the naming of animate and inanimate objects. The naming of bio...

The focus of studies in the field of passive walking has often been on straight walking, while less attention has been paid to the field of turning motions. In this paper, the passive motions of a finite width rimless wheel as the simplest 3D model of passive biped walkers was investigated with a focus on turning motions. For this purpose, the hybrid model of the system consisting of continuous...

The recent publication of 2 studies of the genetics of coronary heart disease1,2 provides an opportune moment to reassess strategies and progress towards the time when the genetic investment in this common cause of death and disability will be repaid with better detection and prevention. These 2 studies are important because they are large and their findings appear to be consistent. The genetic...

first line 'maternal' and 'pregnancy' do not both need to be used. Authors’ response: We agree: the term ‘maternal’ has been omitted from the first line. -What are the rates of nausea, back pain and passive smoking?