The recent interest in 'network' forms oforganization serves as a starting point to better understand the dynamic characteristics of technology development. Net-work theory allows one to describe the relations between 'actors' involved in the development of new technologies both crosssectionally and longitudinally and, as a consequence, to model the structural and behavioral development of a co...

Dr. Jo Handelsman, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University, is a long-time devotee of scientific teaching, receiving this year's Presidential Award for Science Mentoring. She gave a seminar entitled "What is Scientific Teaching? The Changing Landscape of Science Education" as a part of the Scientific Educati...

This paper is an analysis of scientific types – the categories of a scientific taxonomy. I argue that the philosophical view about mental types stands in contrast to the real nature of scientific types, which is in turn responsible for the mind-body problem. Since the view on the relation between psychology and neurology was broadened to the status about special sciences in general, my argument...

We review research on families and health published between 2000 and 2009 and highlight key themes and findings from innovative, methodologically rigorous studies. Whereas research in prior decades focused primarily on whether family structure affects child and adult health, contemporary research examines the contextual and processual factors that shape for whom, for which outcomes, and under w...

The Institute of Food Technologists has issued this Scientific Status Summary to update readers on food packaging and its impact on the environment.

Conservation research is essential to help inform the science-based management of environments that support threatened and endangered wildlife; however, research effort is not necessarily uniform across countries globally. Here, we assessed how the research importance of conservation is distributed globally across different countries and what drives this variation. Specifically, we compared the...

The Institute of Food Technologists has issued this Scientific Status Summary to inform readers of recent innovations in food packaging materials.

Reactivation of HBV is a well-recognized complication following immunosuppression, also in past HBV infection. Based on scientific literature, antiHBs status in HBsAg negative/anti HBc positive patients undergoing chemotherapy may reduce the risk for HBV reactivation, so antiHBs status should be included in a management alghorithm in patients with past HBV infection prior to starting immunosupp...

this paper is an attempt to shed light on how michael ondaatje has tried to rewrite western history in his booker prize-winning novel the english patient (1992). in the light of colonial and postcolonial theories and hayden white’s theory of narrativity of history, which regards historical accounts as metaphorical statements, the researchers try to show how ondaatje challenges the authenticity ...