Abstract A growing literature points to children’s influence on parents’ behavior, including parental investments in children. Further, previous research has shown differential response by socioeconomic status birth weight, cognitive ability, and school outcomes—all early life predictors of later success. This study considers an even earlier, more exogenous predictor investments: offspring geno...

Studies about geographical information systems (GIS) use contribute to geographic information science through critical evaluation of the concepts embedded in GIS tools. Social-behavioural studies about group use of GIS help us to understand the social implications of GIS because groups are fundamental units underlying intra-organizational, organization-wide, and inter-organizational activity in...

In a project to classify livestock grazing intensity using participatory geographic information systems (PGIS), we encountered the problem of how to synthesize PGIS-based maps of livestock grazing intensity that were prepared separately by local experts. We investigated the utility of evidential belief functions (EBFs) and Dempster’s rule of combination to represent classification uncertainty a...

What can geographic information systems (GIS) learn from “free/libré open source software” (FLOSS) computing? Surprisingly more than might appear at first blush. FLOSS depends upon sharing ideas, techniques, data, and applications to be successful, and GIS practitioners have always promoted sharing as benefiting GIS. It would appear that FLOSS and GIS have something in common. It seems reasonab...

The advances in sensor network, linked data, and service-oriented computing has indicated a trend of information technology, i.e., toward an open, flexible, and distributed architecture. However, the existing information technologies show a lack of effective sharing, aggregation, and cooperation services to handle the sensors, data, and processing resources to fulfill user’s complicated tasks i...

The assessment of vulnerability at the community level is currently strongly evolving. Also participatory methods are seen as the way forward to act successfully at the local/community level. In order to carry out effective measures for risk reduction, information has to be available about the hazards that threaten a certain area, the elements at risk (population, buildings, infrastructure, eco...

INTRODUCTION The role of prostaglandins (PGs) in embryo hatching remains controversial. In addition, there is no direct evidence that mouse embryos synthesize PGs. METHODS The effects of endogenous PG on mouse embryo hatching were evaluated by blocking endogenous PG synthesis with indomethacin. Specific cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibitors were used to identify the role of COX-1- and COX-2-derived...

Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning of applications of GIS which grant legitimacy to indigenous geographical knowledge as well as to ‘offi cial’ spatial data. By incorporating various forms of community participation these newer framings of Geographical Information Systems as ‘Participatory GIS’ (PGIS) offer a response to the critiques of GIS which were prevalent in the 1990s. This paper r...

We have recently demonstrated that human follicular dendritic cells (FDCs) strongly express prostacyclin synthase. The purpose of this study is to investigate the production mechanism of prostacyclin using the established human FDC line, HK. The levels of PGIS protein expression did not vary during the different stages of the cell cycle. We stimulated HK cells with various inflammatory cytokine...