Michael D. Byrne, Organizer and Chair (Rice University) Alex Kirlik, Co-Chair (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Terry Allard (Federal Aviation Administration) David C. Foyle (NASA Ames Research Center) and Becky L. Hooey (San Jose State University Research Foundation at NASA Ames Research Center) Kevin A. Gluck (Air Force Research Laboratory) Christopher D. Wickens, Alion Science & Tech...

Antoine Allard 2 and M. Ángeles Serrano 2, 3 Departament de F́ısica de la Matèria Condensada, Universitat de Barcelona, Mart́ı i Franquès 1, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain Universitat de Barcelona Institute of Complex Systems (UBICS), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Passeig Llúıs Companys 23, E-08010 Barcelona, Spain (Dated: January ...

ECENT studies on the population dynamics of several largely selfing species have shown that the restrictions often postulated to be imposed on the mode and extent of recombination and genetic variability by their breeding habit could be alleviated in several ways. Natural selection can regulate various factors controlling the rate of recombination (GRANT 1958) , or maintain through heterozygote...

The Chinese species of the genus Ismarus Haliday, 1835, are revised for the first time. Three new species from the Oriental region of China and belonging to Ismarus halidayi-group are described and illustrated: Ismarus longussp. n., Ismarus nigritrochantersp. n. and Ismarus parvicellussp. n. Two species are newly reported for the Chinese fauna: Ismarus dorsiger (Haliday, 1831) and Ismarus halid...

Cancer cells can enter the bloodstream, form distant metastases, and ultimately lead to death. A study by Allard and colleagues, which was published in the October 15, 2004, issue of Clinical Cancer Research, concluded that the CellSearch system could be used as a reliable tool to investigate circulating tumor cells and their clinical utility, and it spurred a still-growing interest in the field.

Anne Grinyer is a lecturer in the Institute for Health Research and in the School of Independent Studies at Lancaster University. She is a sociologist of health and illness and has a special interest in the construction of scientific and medical knowledge, the management of health risks and in qualitative research methods. She has recently written a book on young adults with cancer based on nar...