Socializing with the Neighbors

Socializing with the Neighbors Stem Cells and Their Niche

The potential of stem cells in regenerative medicine relies upon removing them from their natural habitat, propagating them in culture, and placing them into a foreign tissue environment. To do so, it is essential to understand how stem cells interact with their microenvironment, the so-called stem cell niche, to establish and maintain their properties. In this review, we examine adult stem cel...

Who is (Still) Socializing with Neighbors? A Contribution to the Analysis of Local Social Relations1

Disembedding of social relations from a local context has often been pointed out as one of the main characteristics of contemporary social changes. Taking that as a starting point, this paper explored the role of neighborhood social relations in contemporary Croatian society. The analysis presented in this paper had two aims. The first aim was to get insight into structure of local social relat...

Socializing the h-index

A variety of bibliometric measures have been proposed to quantify the impact of researchers and their work. The h-index is a notable and widely-used example which aims to improve over simple metrics such as raw counts of papers or citations. However, a limitation of this measure is that it considers authors in isolation and does not account for contributions through a collaborative team. To add...

Socializing Visualization

Jeffrey Heer Berkeley Institute of Design and Computer Science Division University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1776 USA [email protected] The immersive and compelling nature of many social visualizations arise not only from the nature and presentation of the data under consideration, but also from the social interactions, both implicit and explicit, surrounding the use of the...

Introduction : Socializing the Extended Mind