What makes the sun shine? How does the sun produce the vast amount of energy necessary to support life on earth? These questions challenged scientists for a hundred and fifty years, beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century. Theoretical physicists battled geologists and evolutionary biologists in a heated controversy over who had the correct answer. Why was there so much fuss about this...

FACT: Not at all! Georgia is introducing legislation to protect its citizens against discrimination. The EU welcomes this initiative, which is also a requirement under the EU's Visa Liberalisation Action Plan. The anti-discrimination law simply assures the equal treatment of all citizens, including those belonging to minorities. This protects citizens' existing rights, for example to enjoy free...

Reza Mirzaeifar, Ken Gall, Ting Zhu, Arash Yavari, and Reginald DesRoches George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332,...

Ovarian Cancer is a problem battled worldwide and typically diagnosed at an advanced stage due to the lack of effective screening strategies. An method should detect disease earlier diagnosis such that treatment would result in better outcome not inevitable mortality. Diagnosis cancer early (stage 1) could be benefit good strategies because it associated with high 5- year survival rate (95%) as...

The production and quality of Phaseolusvulgaris (snap bean) have been negatively impacted by leaf crumple disease caused two whitefly-transmitted begomoviruses: cucurbit virus (CuLCrV) sida golden mosaic Florida (SiGMFV), which often appear as a mixed infection in Georgia. Host resistance is the most economical management strategy against viruses. Currently, information not available with respe...

Vishal Agarwal School of Materials Science and Engineering, and Molecular Design Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0245 Meilin Liu School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0245 William S. Rees, Jr. School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and School of Materials Science and Engineering, and Molecular Desig...

NRC-CISTI serves Canada as its National Science Library (as mandated by Canada’s Parliament in 1924) and also provides direct support to researchers of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC). By reason of its mandate, vision, and strategic positioning, NRC-CISTI has been rapidly and effectively mobilizing Canadian stakeholders and resources to become a lead player on both the Canadian na...

Nine years after the Kobe earthquake in Japan, social issues are still prominent, and the rehabilitation process is still ongoing. The earthquake caused two major changes in Japanese society: an increase in voluntary and non-government activities, and the enhancement of cooperation between local government and the residents' association. People's participation in the decision-making process was...