Bookshelf 2012

The Software Bookshelf

The Virtual Bookshelf Approach

The amount of information that people have to handle in their everyday life has increased and more is asked of their cognitive ability to select and assimilate the information that is important to them. One way to facilitate the cognitive work is to match information objects with each other and select/filter the ones that are relevant. To do this selection objects must be represented in such a ...

Bookshelf faulting in Nicaragua

Oblique subduction at a high rate of convergence along much of the Middle America Trench results in northwest-directed trench-parallel block motion. Accommodation of this motion along northwest-striking dextral strike-slip faults has been postulated; however, in Nicaragua such faults are not well developed. We suggest instead that this motion is accommodated by bookshelf faulting that includes ...

Recommendations from Jane Gitschier's Bookshelf

Today PLOS Genetics launches a new frontmatter feature, the ‘‘Deep Reads’’ column, celebrating books in the realm of genetics and, in today’s instance, beyond (Image 1). Kudos to our editorial colleague Susan Rosenberg for proposing the column’s clever name. While I’m the kickoff contributor, various members of the PLOS Genetics community will pen subsequent columns, hopefully annually. Over th...

Cancer, Medulloblastoma - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf

Introduction While leukemias are the most common type of malignancy to afflict the pediatric population, brain tumors are the most common solid tumors in this age group. Medulloblastoma is the most common malignant brain tumor in children, accounting for 20% of all pediatric brain tumors. It is categorized as a primitive neuroectodermal tumor of the cerebellum. While mortality within the first ...