It is with great sadness and shock that we learned of having lost on Friday September 6, 2013 a great friend, father, husband, scientist, mentor, symposium organizer, and a revolutionary intellectual thinker, who had a remarkable ability of addressing and describing fundamental problems in laser physics in new and enlightening ways. Although it is impossible to adequately capture the full exten...

Rural tourism can make full use of tourism resources in rural areas to adjust and optimize rural industrial structures, extend the agricultural industrial chain, develop rural tourism services, promote nonagricultural employment, increase the incomes of farmers, and create a better economic base for the new rural construction. This paper uses the method of SWOT analysis to make a comprehensive ...

The short arms of the five acrocentric human chromosomes harbor sequences that direct the assembly and function of the nucleolus, one of the key functional domains of the nucleus, yet they are absent from the current human genome assembly. Here we describe the genomic architecture of these human nucleolar organizers. Sequences distal and proximal to ribosomal gene arrays are conserved among the...

"Best tools and practices for concept mapping" by Chris Clark (University of Notre Dame, Kaneb Center). Introduction to terms and uses for concept maps/mind maps, a teaching-learning strategy that entails building a visual representation or visual organizer to assist learning or show what has been learned. Site includes links to further resources and articles. https://ltlatnd.wordpress.com/2011...

"Best tools and practices for concept mapping" by Chris Clark (University of Notre Dame, Kaneb Center). Introduction to terms and uses for concept maps/mind maps, a teaching-learning strategy that entails building a visual representation or visual organizer to assist learning or show what has been learned. Site includes links to further resources and articles. https://ltlatnd.wordpress.com/2011...

We analyze tournaments of heterogeneous players from an organizer’s perspective. Using a simple model of a noisy tournament, we demonstrate how the likelihood of selecting the best player, here termed the “predictive power” of a tournament, depends on the tournament format, the distribution of players’ types, and the overall noise level. We formalize the organizer’s decision problem for varying...

Patrick Lemaire grew up in Orsay, close to Paris. He graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique and did his PhD at the EMBL (Heidelberg) and ENS (Paris) with Patrick Charnay (1985–1990); he then joined, as a post-doc, the laboratory of John Gurdon in Cambridge (1991–1994), where he identified a crucial Xenopus organizer gene, Siamois. He has been heading a CNRS research group in Marseille since 199...

"Best tools and practices for concept mapping" by Chris Clark (University of Notre Dame, Kaneb Center). Introduction to terms and uses for concept maps/mind maps, a teaching-learning strategy that entails building a visual representation or visual organizer to assist learning or show what has been learned. Site includes links to further resources and articles. https://ltlatnd.wordpress.com/2011...

I am grateful to the conference organizers from UNESCO and ICSU for the opportunity to present this talk and to Dr. Nicole Biros for her role as organizer of this session. Dr. Jorge Allende, our chairman, has been a colleague since our student days. He is a distinguished biochemist and citizen of Chile and it is an honor to share this occasion with him. Now, as we look to a new century and mill...

Developmental Biology's excellent reputation in Freiburg goes back to the days of the Hans Spemann who received the Nobel prize for his groundbreaking discovery of an "organizer center" in early amphibian embryos that controls the behavior and fate of surrounding cells. Today the University of Freiburg is one of the few universities in Germany that offers a full curriculum in Developmental Biol...