Pew commission defends oceans report

Pew-Thian Yap, Guorong Wu,

T he human brain is organized into a collection of interacting networks with specialized functions to support various cognitive functions. The word “connectome” first burst on the scene with the work of Sporns et al. [1], who urged brain researchers to advance a comprehensive structural description of the elements and connections forming the human brain. An increasing body of evidence indicates...

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PKC Defends Crown Against Munc13

Protein kinase C has long been thought to mediate DAG signaling at the synapse. Recently PKC has been supplanted by members of the Unc13 family as the predominant effectors of DAG signaling. Thanks to a study by Wierda and colleagues in this issue of Neuron, PKC returns to reclaim part of the kingdom: both pathways must be active to activate presynaptic potentiation.

A Blueprint for the Oceans: Implications of Two National Commission Reports for Conservation Practitioners

In the first comprehensive reviews since 1969, two high-level reports on the status of U.S. marine ecosystems and resources have been released: that of the nongovernmental Pew Oceans Commission in 2003 and that of the congressionally mandated U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy in 2004. Although the two commissions differed in the breadth and depth of their mandates, their findings on the state of ...

The Report of the English Cholera Commission

'Vr The Commissioners sent out by the English Government to investigate, in concert with SurgeonGeneral J. M. Cuningham ̂ nd Dr. D. D. Cunningham, the nature of cholera, and more especially the etiological significance of Koch's comma-bacillus, have terminated their inquiry and returned home again. -Before leaving this country they published a preliminary report which we reproduce elsewhere. In ...