This essay summarizes my personal journey toward the atomic visualization of microtubules and a mechanistic understanding of how these amazing polymers work. During this journey, I have been witness and partaker in the blooming of a technique I love-cryo-electron microscopy.

The premise that guides my research is that phytoplankton community dynamics reflect a complicated interaction between environmental variability and the inherent genetic and physiological variation present within individual species of phytoplankton. My goal is to determine how genetic and physiological diversity is maintained within individual species of diatoms and how this diversity is shaped...

The blooming of location-sharing services has led to serious privacy concerns, particularly location privacy concerns. In this paper, we first discuss the definition of location privacy and then review several location privacy protection mechanisms. After that, we classify location privacy protection mechanisms into four categories: legislation & regulatory, anonymity & obfuscation, protocol an...

Discrimination data analysis has been investigated for the last fifty years in a large body of social, legal, and economic studies. Recently, discrimination discovery and prevention has become a blooming research topic in the knowledge discovery community. This chapter provides a multi-disciplinary annotated bibliography of the literature on discrimination data analysis, with the intended objec...

As we move to developing object-oriented programs, the complexity traditionally found in functions and procedures is moving to the connections among components. Different faults occur when components are integrated to form higher level structures that aggregate behavior and state. Consequently, we need to place more effort on testing the connections among components. Although object-oriented te...

Abstract Flower plantings can increase the abundance of bees and improve pollination services in surrounding landscape. However, uncertainty remains as to whether flower play a role wild bee conservation. The aim this study has been examine contribution composition management attraction bees, particularly endangered species. In large-scale monitoring project, data were collected on 60 120 semi-...

The idea of assembling a Special Issue on Pollen Tube and Reproduction in Molecular Plant was conceived during the organization of the 2012 Pollen Biology International Symposium and Workshop held at the Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology (SIPPE), Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), 27–31 October 2012. Wei-Hua Tang of the SIPPE led the organization, with the support of Hong-Wei Xu...