Elsewhere in Science, 25 September 2015

CSC 2414 : Discrepancy Theory in Computer Science Fall 2015 Lecture 2 — September 20 , 2015

Estimating a complicated integral numerically is a problem which is ubiquitous in applied mathematics. Often we have to deal with functions for which the integral has no simple closed form. Even worse, often we do not even have a formula for the function we are integrating, and instead can only query its value at specific points, for example by performing an experiment. We might, however, have ...

In the September 2015 issue

2015 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, FedCSIS 2015, Lódz, Poland, September 13-16, 2015

Nursing highlights from the 2015 European Cancer Congress (ECCO18–ESMO40), 25–29 September 2015, Vienna: reinforcing multidisciplinarity

The 2015 European Cancer Congress (ECC2015) was the widest European platform for every professional involved in the struggle against cancer (17,656 participants, 2482 abstracts submitted). In this context, the nursing contribution was very relevant, involving high quality research and experience. The major nursing issues were: online information and support; innovations in cancer nursing roles;...

Day Saturday , September 19 , 2015

Genome editing is a useful tool for the characterization of gene function as well as the creation of disease-related mutations. Through the use of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR), we have successfully induced mutations in zebrafish for the study of four genes known to cause Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) in humans. The use of genome editing to affect the ...