Assessing and predicting ecosystem responses to global environmental change and its impacts on human well-being are high priority targets for the scientific community. The potential for synergies between remote sensing science and ecology, especially satellite remote sensing and conservation biology, has been highlighted by many in the past. Yet, the two research communities have only recently ...

Throughout the history of social psychology, we can witness continuity and change in the degree to which various bridges are being crossed. Changes are especially pronounced for bridges with biology and neuroscience. Although social psychology has been strongly connected to the study of biological systems, to animal research, and to the brain research, the popularity of these linkages fluctuate...

Over the past five years, the emergence of interactive social media has influenced the development of learning environments. Learning management systems have come to maturity, but because they are controlled by educational institutions and are subsequently used to support institutional learning, have been seen by learning technologists as not capturing the spirit and possibilities that new medi...

Nanoneurology and nanopsychiatry are today promising, rapidly growing disciplines, and many research efforts have so far been focused in design of nanoparticle-based biosensors and drug delivery systems that would be an addition to conventional diagnostic methods and therapeutic strategies. Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are especially important in these research areas since it has been shown that ...

This paper looks at different rules in dissolving a common value partnership when one partner holds proprietary information. In winner’s bid auction (WBA) and loser’s bid auction (LBA), there exists unique mixed strategy equilibrium. “Payoff equivalence” is established in the sense that partners’ expected payoffs are the same under the two auction formats. The informed partner benefits from an ...

Acknowledgements Our sincere thanks to the NIH Coordinating Committee on Research on Women's Health, composed of Institute and Center directors or their designees, and their Institute and Center colleagues. We especially want to acknowledge the extraordinary efforts of several CCRWH members, including Introduction As the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research on Women's Health (...

Protein crystallization under a magnetic field is an interesting research topic because a magnetic field may provide a special environment to acquire improved quality protein crystals. Because high-quality protein crystals are very useful in high-resolution structure determination using diffraction techniques (X-ray, neutron, and electron diffraction), research using magnetic fields in protein ...

this is a comprehensive review of the recent progresses made in the field of zeolite membranes. it describes zeolitic materials and methods of membrane fabrication, followed by a summary of applications for gas separation, pervaporation and separation of liquid mixtures. special attention is called to polymer mixed matrix membranes (mmms) and membranes based on metal organic frame works (mofs)....