Focus Issue: Mountain Forests and the SDGs

Focus issue: calcium signaling.

It has beenmy pleasure to act as Guest Editor for this Focus Issue about calcium signaling. Ca is the fifth most abundant element in the Earth’s crust, yet high concentrations are cytotoxic because of precipitation of phosphates, proteins, and DNA. Homeostatic mechanisms to maintain low cellular Ca evolved early, with the ability to pump Ca ions out of the cytosol into the extracellular space b...

Chikungunya: international focus issue.

In October 2013, the first international meeting on chikungunya took place in Langkawi, Malaysia. The Integrated Chikungunya Research consortium (ICRES, www.icres.eu), coordinated by Professor John Fazakerley and funded by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (EU FP7), brought together the main European laboratories working on chikungunya with groups in Southeast Asia and Australia. T...

Disturbance Patterns in Southern Rocky Mountain Forests

Planning road network in mountain forests using GIS and Analytic Hierarchical Process (AHP)

Forest road construction is the most costly operation in forestry. Road designing and construction in unsuitable areas may increase construction and maintenance costs and also cause many environmental impacts. Therefore, it is required to pay more attention to forest road design. In this research, we tried to introduce an appropriate method for locating forest roads using GIS and AHP simultaneo...

Engineering, global health, and inclusive innovation: focus on partnership, system strengthening, and local impact for SDGs

The recent drafting of the Sustainable Development Goals challenges the research community to rethink the traditional approach to global health and provides the opportunity for science, technology, engineering, and mathematical (STEM) disciplines, particularly engineering, to demonstrate their benefit to the field. Higher education offers a platform for engineering to intersect with global heal...