7,704 research outputs found
Workshop on the implementation of the grand challenges
No full textThis is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Integrative and Comparative Biology following peer review. The version of record [Tsukimura, B., H.V. Carey and D.K. Padilla. 2010. Workshop on the Implementation of the Grand Challenges. Intetgrative Comparative Biology 50: 945-947] is available online at: http://icb.oxfordjournals.org/content/50/6/945.full.https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icq13
Potential climate effects on the Chinese mitten crab, Eriocheir sinensis, abundances in the San Francisco Bay
No full textThe Chinese mitten crab (CMC), Eriocheir sinensis, invaded the San Francisco Bay Delta system in 1992, due to human introduction. Since the establishment of this invasive species, there have been many negative environmental and economic impacts surrounding the San Francisco Bay. Monthly plankton tows taken from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) station D41 were analyzed for CMC zoeae. Brachyuran zoeae and megalopa were keyed to species with the use of a dichotomous key (Rice and Tsukimura, 2007; Gonzales et al, 2009). April 2003 was the highest number of CMC zoeae where they recorded a total of 407 larva samples (CPUE = 4064.5), and by 2008, no CMC zoeae. However, in 2012 a total of 26 CMC megalopa were discovered. In this study, which examined seven years of monthly sampling, minimum salinity (≥ 15 ppt) was the primary predictor for megalopa abundances (generalized linear model). During our observation period, salinities were recorded below the minimum tolerances and megalopa numbers were low or nonexistent, therefore we can associate these low salinities to low CMC abundances. In addition, prior-month minimum temperature (12 °C) was correlated to low CMC abundances. Zoeae experienced temperatures below their lower thermal limit, resulting in lower megalopa numbers for the current month. This study demonstrated that salinity and temperature were decoupled from adult abundance influence on zoeae and megalopa abundances
Author Interview with Brian D. Anderson
No full textBrian D. Anderson was our feature artist of the week, October 19th - 23rd, 2020.https://jagworks.southalabama.edu/vid_presentations/1010/thumbnail.jp
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No full textBiology Brian Tsukimura Photo by Eusevio Aria
Grand opportunities: strategies for addressing grand challenges in organismal animal biology
No full textThis is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Integrative and Comparative Biology following peer review. The version of record [Stillman, J.H., M. Denny, D.K. Padilla, M. Wake, S. Patek and B. Tsukimura. 2011. Grand Opportunities: Strategies for Addressing Grand Challenges in Organismal Animal Biology. Integrative and Comparative Biology 51: 945-947] is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icb/icr052.Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icr05
Competition policy. by Brian Ellis
No full texttag=1 data=Competition policy. by Brian Ellis
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tag=10 data=Examines the Government's National Competition Policy in relation to encouraging R&D, and the corporisation of public services and utilites. The author is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at La Trobe UNiversity and Vice-President of the Rationalist Society of Australia. Article Taken from What's New.
tag=13 data=CABExamines the Government's National Competition Policy in relation to encouraging R&D, and the corporisation of public services and utilites. The author is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at La Trobe UNiversity and Vice-President of the Rationalist Society of Australia. Article Taken from What's New
Art Behind Gaming: Brian D. Anderson
No full textA discussion with author Brian D. Anderson about worldbuilding in fantasy. Part of the Art Behind Gaming Online Con.https://jagworks.southalabama.edu/vid_presentations/1046/thumbnail.jp
A new organismal systems biology: how animals walk the tight rope between stability and change
No full textThe amount of knowledge in the biological sciences is growing at an exponential rate. Simultaneously, the incorporation of new technologies in gathering scientific information has greatly accelerated our capacity to ask, and answer, new questions. How do we, as organismal biologists, meet these challenges, and develop research strategies that will allow us to address the grand challenge question: how do organisms walk the tightrope between stability and change? Organisms and organismal systems are complex, and multi-scale in both space and time. It is clear that addressing major questions about organismal biology will not come from ‘‘business as usual’’ approaches. Rather, we require the collaboration of a wide range of experts and integration of biological information with more quantitative approaches traditionally found in engineering and applied mathematics. Research programs designed to address grand challenge questions will require deep knowledge and expertise within subfields of organismal biology, collaboration and integration among otherwise disparate areas of research, and consideration of organisms as integrated systems. Our ability to predict which features of complex integrated systems provide the capacity to be robust in changing environments is poorly developed. A predictive organismal biology is needed, but will require more quantitative approaches than are typical in biology, including complex systems-modeling approaches common to engineering. This new organismal systems biology will have reciprocal benefits for biologists, engineers, and mathematicians who address similar questions, including those working on control theory and dynamical systems biology, and will develop the tools we need to address the grand challenge questions of the 21st century.This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Integrative and Comparative Biology following peer review. The version of record [Padilla D.K., B. Tsukimura. 2014. A new organismal systems biology: how animals walk the tight rope between stability and change. Integrative Comparative Biology 54(2):218-22. doi: 10.1093/icb/icu038] is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icb/icu038.Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icu03
In Honour of Brian MacWhinney: A Personal Account
No full textWhile this volume and the writings have made it amply clear what significant contributions Professor Brian MacWhinney has made to the field at large, in this afterword, we begin with a senior member of our author team (Ping Li, PL) followed by a mid-career member (Helen Zhao, HZ) and an early career member (Zhe Gao, ZG), to provide our personal accounts of Brian not only as a leading scholar but also as a role model who touches and changes people’s lives
Interview with Brian Alleyne, Sociologist Studying KDE
No full textA few months ago, the British journal Sociology published an article titled "Challenging Code: A Sociological Reading of the KDE Free Software Project". Eager to find out what a 'sociological reading' of KDE entails, Dot editor Oriol Mirosa rushed to contact the article's author, sociologist Brian Alleyne, who graciously and patiently agreed to be the subject of an interview
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