Climate change and forest disturbances are threatening the ability of forested mountain watersheds to provide the clean, reliable, and abundant fresh water necessary to support aquatic ecosystems and a growing human population. Here, we used 76 years of water yield, climate, and field plot vegetation measurements in six unmanaged, reference watersheds in the southern Appalachian Mountains of No...

In August, 2014, neuroscientists and physical scientists gathered together on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles to discuss how to monitor molecules in neuroscience. This field has seen significant growth since its inception in the 1970s. Here, the advances in this field are documented, including its advance into understanding the actions that specific neurotransmitters med...

a) Implications for the future of nongovernmental organization. International nongovernmental organizations are mentioned in none of the reports considered, with the exception of the SATCOM Report — a non-UN national body. Nongovernmental organizations are mentioned in passing in the Capacity Study but the references are so vague that it is not clear what sort of NGOs are meant or whether they ...

By the 1960s, a vast amount of physiological evidence indicated that the hypothalamus plays a critical role in the expression of behaviors that are essential for the survival of the individual and for the species as a whole, along with the coordinated expression of appropriate autonomic and neuroendocrine responses. Karplus and Kreidl provided the seminal observations related to autonomic respo...

Financial relations considerably alter the profile of the profit rate of nonfinancial corporations. Large rates are maintained to the end of the 1970s. Conversely, rates are diminished during the 1980s and 1990s. The average value of the profit rate of the financial sector is similar, though lower during the 1970s, due to low real interest rates and a stagnating stock market. The opposite is tr...