We analyze the evolution of the quantum state of networks of quantum oscillators coupled with arbitrary external environments. We show that the reduced density matrix of the network always obeys a local master equation with a simple analytical solution. We use this to study the emergence of thermodynamical laws in the long time regime demonstrating two main results: First, we show that it is im...

Adult neurogenesis, a concept emergent in the late 1990s, is the generation of new neurons in the adult brain. This process occurs thank to cells who have this proliferative feature, named as Neural Stem Cells (NSCs). Neural Stem Cells (NSCs) are primary progenitors who can generate the two neural types (neurons and glia). Classically it was assumed that NSCs are only present in the embryo, but...

(Muhlebach et al., 2011; Noyce et al., 2011). Here, Kato et al. (2012) focused on the receptor usage of MV in vivo which may influences the disease outcome using monkey models, while Takeda et al. (2012) discussed about the dual-tropic nature of MV using SLAM and nectin 4 expressed in immune cells and epithelial cells, respectively. Ito et al. (2012) addressed the importance of B cells as a res...

Adult neurogenesis, a concept emergent in the late 1990s, is the generation of new neurons in the adult brain. This process occurs thank to cells who have this proliferative feature, named as Neural Stem Cells (NSCs). Neural Stem Cells (NSCs) are primary progenitors who can generate the two neural types (neurons and glia). Classically it was assumed that NSCs are only present in the embryo, but...

This special issue of Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS) contains 16 papers that resulted from the European Science Foundation (ESF) Research Conference “Submarine Paleoseismology: The Offshore Search of Large Holocene Earthquakes” that was held at the Universitätszentrum Obergurgl (Austria), from 11 to 16 September 2010 (Pantosti et al., 2011). The conference enabled scientists ...

Renal denervation (RDN), a recently developed therapy for resistant hypertension, is generally regarded as a safe procedure (Krum et al., 2009; Esler et al., 2010; Bhatt et al., 2014). The Symplicity HTN trials reported that the rate of renal artery stenosis after RDN was low. For example, the Symplicity HTN-1 trial showed that 1 of 45 (2.2%) denervated patients developed a non-obstructive rena...

Obesity remains a serious health concern throughout the United States and the world (Cecchini et al. 2010). Validated strategies for achieving and maintaining a healthy body weight include (A) exercising vigorously (Jakicic et al. 2001), (B) preparing meals at home rather than eating in restaurants (Bezerra et al. 2012), and (C) consuming lots of fruits and vegetables (Rolls et al. 2004). To ou...

E uropean Journal of Psychotraumatology (EJPT) is now completing its third volume. It is exciting to see how the range of articles addressing both clinical issues as well as more basic research, include samples of simple and complex PTSD as well as other disorders such as substance use disorder (e.g. Gielen et al., 2012) or posttraumatic panic attacks (Joscelyne et al., 2012). The populations s...

Citation Aad, G., B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, A.A. Abdelalim, A. Abdesselam, O. Abdinov, B. Abi, et al. “Measurement of the Centrality Dependence of the Charged Particle Pseudorapidity Distribution in Lead–lead Collisions at s[subscript NN] = 2.76 TeV with the ATLAS Detector.” Physics Letters B 710, no. 3 (April 2012): 363–382. © 2012 CERN As Published http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.02.0...

Citation Aad, G., B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, A.A. Abdelalim, A. Abdesselam, O. Abdinov, B. Abi, et al. “Searches for Supersymmetry with the ATLAS Detector Using Final States with Two Leptons and Missing Transverse Momentum in s = 7 TeV Proton–proton Collisions.” Physics Letters B 709, no. 3 (March 2012): 137–157. © 2012 CERN As Published http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.01.076 Publisher E...