Giving People More Green Space

Bringing Green Homes within Reach: Healthier Housing for More People

Giving Space to Cell Signaling

Spatial separation of component enzymes in a pathway creates microdomains and gradients of signaling activities. Imaging techniques and computational modeling help us to understand the complex relationships between signaling and spatial information. In this issue, Neves et al. (2008) report how the propagation of spatial information is controlled by the shape of hippocampal neurons and feedback...

Beneficiary or benefactor: are people more prosocial when they reflect on receiving or giving?

Research shows that reflecting on benefits received can make people happier, but it is unclear whether or not such reflection makes them more helpful. Receiving benefits can promote prosocial behavior through reciprocity and positive affect, but these effects are often relationship-specific, short-lived, and complicated by ambivalent reactions. We propose that prosocial behavior is more likely ...

Giving Order by Space and Time

ontextual information is key to the interpretation of data. For instance, research on information retrieval and recommender systems aims at extracting and inferring implicit information from a user's context to enrich queries. To give a concrete example, a search for restaurant using Google will first return recommendations for places that are open and in the user's vicinity before returning re...

Giving Green to Get Green? Incentives and Consumer Adoption of Hybrid Vehicle Technology

Federal, state and local governments use a variety of incentives to induce consumer adoption of hybrid-electric vehicles. We study the relative efficacy of state sales tax waivers, income tax credits and non-tax incentives and find that the type of tax incentive offered is as important as the value of the tax incentive. Conditional on value, we find that sales tax waivers are associated a seven...