It is crucial for sustainable planning to consider broad environmental and social dimensions and systemic implications of new infrastructure to build more resilient societies, reduce poverty, improve humanwellbeing, mitigate climate change and address other global change processes. This article presents resilience.io,2 a platform to evaluate new infrastructure projects by assessing their design...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Resistance to genotoxic therapy is a characteristic feature of glioma cells. Acid sphingomyelinase (ASM) hydrolyzes sphingomyelin to ceramide and glucosylceramide synthase (GCS) catalyzes ceramide metabolism. Increased ceramide levels have been suggested to enhance chemotherapy-induced death of cancer cells. METHODS Microarray and clinical data for ASM and GCS in astrocytomas ...

Introduction: Paintings are versatile near-planar objects with material characteristics that vary widely. The fact that paint has a material presence is often overlooked, mostly due to the fact that we encounter many of these artworks through two dimensional reproductions. The capture of paintings in the third dimension is not only interesting for study, restoration and conservation, but it als...

In this article, we discuss Badiou’s concept of the world through somewhat unusual metaphor “the anatomy world”. The allows us to approach idea ​​its constitution, architecture, structure – its anatomy. But as show in first part text, order derive world, need a corpse must die. Following philosophy Alain Badiou, demonstrate that objective existence is indifferent question life and death. Whethe...