The "Kulturkreislehre" Moves into Indonesia

Genomics moves into the clinic.

Laetrile: the battle moves into the courtroom.

Plant genomics moves into the limelight.

Two major considerations impelled Ronald Phillips [University of Minnesota and Director of the National Research Initiative of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)], and Michael Freeling (University of California, Berkeley), to organize a recent colloquium, ‘‘Protecting our Food Supply: The Value of Plant Genome Initiatives’’ (Stanford, CA, June 2–5). First, the increased wealth of the dev...

Complex Data Moves into the Third Dimension

For some years now, mainstream industries, such as automotive or aerospace, have invested many millions in visualising their CAD in 3D. Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) tools and techniques, incorporating 3D stereoscopic visualisation or Virtual Reality (VR) are the norm in these sectors. Initially just used by designers for real-time design reviews, VR technology soon spread to training and ...

Resource modeling moves into the courtroom

In this paper I discuss the use of a population dynamics model to predict the future population size of colonial seabirds after damages from a loss due to oiling. Although simple, the model was developed in a litigation context by a retained ‘team of experts’ and presented some challenges both in communication of results and concept to environmental lawyers and in the interpretation of results ...