A long history of postmortem studies has provided significant insight into human brain structure and organization. Cadavers have also proven instrumental for the measurement of artifacts and nonneural effects in functional imaging, and more recently, the study of biophysical properties critical to brain stimulation. However, death produces significant changes in the biophysical properties of br...

Interdisciplinary research is capable of investigating questions that no single or independent collection of disciplines can address. This interdisciplinary approach was used to investigate why nonpoint source pollution to a lake had not changed even though the often cited social drivers of this situation had changed significantly. The concept of disproportionality was adapted to examine social...

US pregnant uterus 9 Assessment of fetal measurement, growth, amniotic fluid, fetal anatomic survey, and activity patterns is appropriate. O US pregnant uterus biophysical profile 4 Assessment of biophysical profile is of indeterminate appropriateness. Biophysical profile components: 1) fetal heart-rate reactivity; 2) fetal breathing movements; 3) fetal movement; 4) fetal tone; and 5) amniotic ...

Recently, we put forward a redox molecular hypothesis involving the natural biophysical substrate of visual perception and imagery. Here, we explicitly propose that the feedback and feedforward iterative operation processes can be interpreted in terms of a homunculus looking at the biophysical picture in our brain during visual imagery. We further propose that the brain can use both picture-lik...

The IWRAM Decision Support System was developed to consider economic, environmental, and sociocultural trade-offs involved with resource competition and development in the Mae Chaem catchment in Northern Thailand. IWRAM contains two modelling toolboxes utilising a nodal network structure for catchment analysis: a Biophysical Toolbox, for considering the biophysical (erosion, streamflow, crop) i...

We have entered an unprecedented era with regard to the impact of human actions on the Earth’s biophysical systems. Humans have always acted in ways that affect their surroundings (Turner et al., 1990), but only recently have anthropogenic drivers become major factors at the planetary level (Steffen et al., 2004). We have appropriated half the planet’s land surface for human uses, eliminated 90...

Stem cell fate and function are dynamically modulated by the interdependent relationships between biochemical and biophysical signals constituting the local 3D microenvironment. While approaches to recapitulate the stem cell niche have been explored for directing stem cell differentiation, a quantitative relationship between embryonic stem cell (ESC) morphogenesis and intrinsic biophysical cues...

Department for NMR-based Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Germany Laboratory of Chromatin Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Am Fassberg 11, 37077, Germany Biaffin GmbH & Co KG, Heinrich-Plett Strasse 40, 34132 Kassel, Germany Biomolecular Spectroscopy and Single-Molecule Detection, Max Pla...

the expansion of major cities regardless of the scientific planning principles has led to theemergence of negative urban development impacts in iran such as the degradation of natural resources andvarious forms of pollution. undoubtedly, urban rivers can enhance the ecological value of the earth to anoptimal extent. however, to benefit from these potentials, appropriate planning looks inevitabl...

Cellular expansive growth is one of the foundations of morphogenesis. In plant and fungal cells, expansive growth is ultimately determined by manipulating the mechanics of the cell wall. Therefore, theoretical and biophysical descriptions of cellular growth processes focus on mathematical models of cell wall biomechanical responses to tensile stresses, produced by the turgor pressure. To captur...