The VII SERB School in Neuroscience was organized by Dr. Joby Joseph, and Dr. Kaveri Rajaraman during 9-21Dec. 2013 at the Centre for Neural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Hyderabad to encourage young neuroscientists. It was funded by SERB, Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India. Twenty two participants (Ph.D. scholars, postdoctoral fellows or young faculty members) o...

In the United States, bioengineered grains are prevalent in the food supply, but bioengineering remains poorly understood by the public (Hallman, Hebden, Aquino, Cuite, & Lang, 2003). Scientists and other experts with a stake in food technology have often suggested that public fears about bioengineering would be overcome if members of the public were given more information (Brady & Brady, 2003;...

With the wide use of digit, internet and multimedia, Multimodal foreign language teaching is becoming a brand-new teaching model. Recent years, there has been a great number of experts and scholars doing research on foreign language teaching using Multimodal theories. However, he application of Multimodal theories in English vocabulary teaching is very rare to see. Therefore, the author tries t...

Research questions in biodiversity are as diverse and heterogeneous as data are. Most metadata standards are mainly data-focused and pay little attention to the search perspective. In this work, we introduce a method to analyze the actual information need of biodiversity scholars based on two individual studies: (1) a series of workshops with domain experts and (2) an analysis of research and s...

Developing content extraction methods for Humanities domains raises a number of challenges, from the abundance of non-standard entity types to their complexity to the scarcity of data. Close collaboration with Humanities scholars is essential to address these challenges. We discuss an annotation schema for Archaeological texts developed in collaboration with domain experts. Its development requ...

How has research on the Baltic space evolved over last thirty years? Can you perceive a different evolution depending universities/research groups/ countries (in particular when comparing American, French, Nordic or poles/centres)? Which issues have been left out of until today? Generally speaking, sometimes had difficulties to arouse vocations. do explain that? Are perceptions specialists comi...

With the increasing demands on software functions, the software systems are becoming larger and more difficult to be managed. The damages caused by system failures are more serious, so the software trustworthiness has become a focus that the international experts and scholars pay close attention to. In the paper, the intension of software trustworthiness has been discussed, and an evaluation me...

In 2007, a leading article was published by Stevan Hobfoll and a team of international experts. The authors synthesized available scientific evidence and distinguished five essential principles of psychosocial care to people confronted with disaster, tragedy, and loss. Care givers should promote: (1) a sense of safety, (2) calming, (3) self- and community efficacy, (4) social connectedness, and...

Growing recognition that the acute health care delivery system contributes proportionally less to health when compared with environment and behavior has focused scholars and public health experts on the need to address nonmedical determinants of health. This paper outlines some steps that the U.S. government can take to address these factors and describes some of the challenges involved. Action...