The St. Joseph Circuit Court issued an injunction Tuesday a g a in s t e ig h t r e s i d e n t s of Wooded E s ta te s , p ro h ib i t in g them from c h a r g in g fan s to park vehicles on their property during Notre Dame home foot­ ball games. According to the injunction, such behavior qualifies as com­ mercial activity on residential property, violating Section 21-8 of the city code, along...

The German Aerospace Center’s (DLR) TIMELINE project (“Time Series Processing of Medium Resolution Earth Observation Data Assessing Long-Term Dynamics in our Natural Environment”) aims to develop an operational processing and data management environment to process 30 years of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) raw data into Le...

Our multi-institutional team of eleven undergraduates, one high school student, one postdoctoral fellow, and four faculty members explored the emerging field of synthetic biology and presented our results at the 2006 international Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition. Having had little or no previous research experience, biology, chemistry and mathematics students from four differe...

Wildfires are one of the major problems in Mediterranean countries, and much effort is done by the governments to dissuade people from starting fires. Public campaigns often promote the idea that the more ignitions the larger the surface burnt will be. This reasoning is, however, not so straightforward. This paper addresses the question of how fire frequency relates to the total area burnt by u...