‘In Memoriam of Ichthyologist and Scientist Saulius Stakėnas’ presents a scientific biography the ichthyologist Stakėnas, doctor biomedical sciences. Dr Stakėnas was born in Vilnius on 6 November 1971. He studied biology at Faculty Natural Sciences University pursued his career Institute Ecology (presently Nature Research Centre). In 2002, successfully defended doctoral dissertation ‘Habitat Se...

The scholarship of teaching and learning is primarily concerned with improving student learning. Of course, we want our students to learn disciplines, them become critical thinkers, write. But this study looks at how impacts a student’s optimism or pessimism. We believe that it an important topic in today’s world provides new the This co-authored by two team-teachers three honors students. Usin...

Editor’s note: This editorial is part of a series written by editors and co-authored with a senior executive, thought leader, or scholar to explore new content areas and grand challenges with the goal of expanding the scope, interestingness, and relevance of the work presented in the Academy of Management Journal. The principle is to use the editorial notes as “stage setters” to open up fresh, ...

Background: The article ascertains the intellectual legacy and impact of Rainer Willi Bussmann (RWB), an active ethnobotanist. It is a scientometric review intended to provide tribute contributions he has made Ethnobiology, associated disciplines.Methods: Bussmann’s various IDs were used collect his publications from Scopus, Web Science, Google Scholar ResearchGate. He was also contacted (via e...

This interdisciplinary co-authored Analysis piece introduces identity and integrity, which are argued to sit at the core of the person. It analyses approaches taken to these concepts by legal regimes, particularly in the context of individuals using artificial limbs or digital avatars. The piece concludes that law engages with identity and integrity to a limited and incomplete extent; and that ...

This issue of Health and Human Rights has a themed section on these concerns. The articles explore various facets of “human rights in patient care,” or the application of human rights principles to the context of patient care. The first piece, which Jonathan Cohen and I co-authored, lays out the human rights in patient care framework. It provides a typology of critical human rights applicable t...

Michel BRUNEAU Director, Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research Professor, Department of Civil Engineering University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14261 [email protected] Michel Bruneau is conducting research on the seismic evaluation and retrofit of existing steel bridges, steel buildings, and masonry buildings. He has published over 200 technical publications as a result of ...

I review the history of work in Artificial Life on the problem of the open-ended evolutionary growth of complexity in computational worlds. This is then put into the context of evolutionary epistemology and human creativity. ∗Parts of this text are based on a book chapter, co-authored with Wolfgang Banzhaf, for the forthcoming Springer Handbook of Natural Computing (Rozenberg et al., 2010). †ht...

(Dartmouth College) were members of the doctoral committee. The thesis was supported by a scholarship from Deutsche Telekom Stiftung (Bonn, Germany). Parts of the third chapter were co-authored by Rainer Böhme and have been published as a book chapter " Counter-Forensics: Attacking Image Forensics " in the book " Digital Image Forensics. There is More to a Picture than Meets the Eye " , edited ...

We present a model for automatically generating training sets and estimating the probability that a pair of Medline records sharing a last and first name initial are authored by the same individual, based on shared title words, journal name, co-authors, medical subject headings, language, and affiliation, as well as distinctive features of the name itself (i.e., presence of middle initial, suff...