Genetic factors contribute to risk of many common diseases affecting reproduction and fertility. In recent years, methods for genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have revolutionized gene discovery for common traits and diseases. Results of GWAS are documented in the Catalog of Published Genome-Wide Association Studies at the National Human Genome Research Institute and report over 70 publica...

The VISA (Visible to Infrared SASE Amplifier) experiment at BNL (Brookhaven National Laboratory) has previously demonstrated saturation at 840 nm in 2001. Further SASE studies, in 2003, have demonstrated an anomalously large bandwidth spread of the FEL spectrum due to offangle emissions. This paper disseminates the current and future program of the VISA experiments at BNL. This includes a study...

according to studies by 2050 more than 15 percent of world people, most of them are in the middle east and africa will experience severe water crisis. future water crisis is one of the most potential for international conflict and security challenges that have the potential to become a major international crisis. iran as a country with abundant water stress and is located in the critical region...

We suggest to study learning software organizations in three projects; one to analyse the current situation for local software and system houses, one to study improvement and learning through examining knowledge flows, and a third to study the impact of a large-scale interaction process: Open Space Technology to share domain knowledge.

Human Services in 1978 to coordinate toxicological testing programs within the department, strengthen the science base in toxicology, and provide information about potentially toxic chemicals to health regulatory and research agencies , the scientific and medical communities, and the public. With more than 80,000 chemicals registered for commercial use in the United States and an estimated 2,00...

Yet in software engineering research, empirical studies have not had the same success. This seems odd given their wide use in other sciences. This problem has been widely discussed and many articles have pointed out possible causes. We argue, however, that many of these articles are Òimplementation-orientedÓ. That is, they suggest that the biggest barriers to using empirical studies lie in the ...

Pulsars seen at gamma-ray energies offer insight into particle acceleration to very high energies, along with information about the geometry and interaction processes in the magnetospheres of these rotating neutron stars. During the next decade, a number of new gamma-ray facilities will become available for pulsar studies. This brief review describes the motivation for gamma-ray pulsar studies,...