Today, a new category of engineering systems is emerging that combines the physical with the computational in a holistic way: Cyber-physical systems (CPS). The key property of these systems is that functionality and salient system properties are emerging from an intensive interaction of physical and computational components. Traditional separation along engineering disciplines in the design of ...

The ultimate goal of neural interface research is to create links between the nervous system and the outside world either by stimulating or by recording from neural tissue to treat or assist people with sensory, motor, or other disabilities of neural function. Although electrical stimulation systems have already reached widespread clinical application, neural interfaces that record neural signa...

The genomic and postgenomic eras have provided unprecedented potential to understand plants’, microbes’, and even entire communities’ molecular and cellular responses to global change. Early efforts to apply genomic technologies and concepts to climate change research are already improving our capability to predict organism response to such change. For example, genome-wide analyses of soybean a...