The present paper argues that the operational conditions for Ecologically Sustainable Economic Development (ESED) may be described by a traditional welfare criterion: ESED refers to a process of economic processes that ensure the environmental prerequisites for an efficient evolution of intergenerational welfare. Under the premise of an unknown and unknowable structure of future generations’ we...

Characterizing the genetic correlates to complex diseases requires consideration of a large number of potentially informative biological markers. In addition, attention to alignment of alleles within or across chromosomal pairs, commonly referred to as phase, may be essential for uncovering true biological associations. In the context of population based association studies, phase is generally ...

This article examines the evolving policy context of municipal open-space acquisition in New Jersey. The authors hypothesize that voters’ interest in open-space protection is sensitive to changes in state policy and that municipal acquisition may have exclusionary effects. The authors examine local acquisition practices using three different approaches: voting behavior, municipal acquisition, a...

During the past 25 years, advances in reproductive medicine have led to the development of novel techniques that give cancer patients who are facing impending sterility an opportunity to bear biological offspring. However, the availability and expense of some fertility preservation methods have limited their universality and, therefore, patient access. By contrast, ovarian transposition prior t...

Exceptionally preserved organic remains are known throughout the vertebrate fossil record, and recently, evidence has emerged that such soft tissue might contain original components. We examined samples from eight Cretaceous dinosaur bones using nano-analytical techniques; the bones are not exceptionally preserved and show no external indication of soft tissue. In one sample, we observe structu...

Previous studies suggested that micropore surface area (MiS) of bio-macromolecules of biomass constitutes an important factor that explains their preservation in soil, that is, the preservation against biological degradation. On the other hand it has been reported that biochemical catalysis are limited in theirs action by the very complex macroscopic and microscopic structure of cell walls that...

Biobanks play a crucial role in "-Omics" research providing well-annotated samples to study major diseases, their pathways and mechanisms. Accordingly, there are major efforts worldwide to professionalize biobanks in order to provide high quality preservation and storage of biological samples with potentially greater scientific impact. Biobanks are an important resource to elucidate relevant di...