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- October 31, 2009
- 01:24 PM
- 963 views
My research paper was rejected to be published. What can I do?
by Pablo Artal in Optics confidential
Prof. Artal. I am postdoctoral researcher working in Physics in an east-European country. I published several articles in high impact journals during my PhD thesis. However, the first article I submitted from my new research was rejected by the editor of the journal. I am quite disappointed since I believe the research was good (in fact the best I ever did) and moreover, the reasons for the rejection were not convincing. I feel very depressed and even thinking quiting my research career. If any........ Read more »
A. Guirao, M. Redondo, P. Artal. (2000) Optical aberrations of the human cornea as a function of age. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A,, 1697. info:/
- October 31, 2009
- 06:13 AM
- 613 views
In the news this month... another impressive exoplanet haul from HARPS
2009 has been a good year for exoplanets, and one team of astronomers have discovered most of them. Since the first planet was found orbiting a star other than the Sun, many more have been discovered using increasingly sensitive instruments and sophisticated techniques. Because they are so faint compared to their parent stars, most planets are discovered through indirect methods. One of the most successful has been the which uses the principle of the Doppler effect to detect the tiny changes in........ Read more »
Mayor, M.; Pepe, F.; Queloz, D.; Bouchy, F.; Rupprecht, G.; Lo Curto, G.; Avila, G.; Benz, W.; Bertaux, J.-L.; Bonfils, X.; dall, Th.; Dekker, H.; Delabre, B.; Eckert, W.; Fleury, M.; Gilliotte, A.; Gojak, D.; Guzman, J. C.; Kohler, D.; Lizon, J.-L.; Long. (2003) Setting New Standards with HARPS. Messenger, 20-24. info:other/2003Msngr.114..20M
- October 30, 2009
- 05:43 PM
- 1,061 views
Lasers, telescopes & aeroplanes
by Emma in we are all in the gutter
So this post was supposed to be about the discovery of the most distant galaxy ever found, at a redshift of about 8.2 (13.1 billion light years from us, or, to put it another way, only about 630 million light years after the Big Bang), but I didn’t get round to it yesterday and I’ve [...]... Read more »
W. A. Coles, T. W. Murphy Jr., J. F. Melser, J. K. Tu, G. A. White, K. H. Kassabian, K. Bales, & B. B. Baumgartner. (2009) A Radio System for Avoiding Illuminating Aircraft with a Laser Beam. submitted to PASP. arXiv: 0910.5685v1
- October 28, 2009
- 06:18 PM
- 1,273 views
Product placements in movies: When they work, and when they don't
by Dave Munger in Cognitive Daily
Product placements in movies and TV shows are becoming so commonplace that my kids now cynically take note of them whenever they appear. It wasn't always that way. In 1982 when I first saw E.T. I had no idea that Elliott's use of Reeses' Pieces to lure E.T. into his home was part of a clever marketing ploy that had been pre-arranged with the multinational conglomerate selling the candy. Now that nearly every household has a DVR allowing viewers to fast-forward through commercials, advertisers ar........ Read more »
Yang, M., & Roskos-Ewoldsen, D. (2007) The Effectiveness of Brand Placements in the Movies: Levels of Placements, Explicit and Implicit Memory, and Brand-Choice Behavior. Journal of Communication, 57(3), 469-489. DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2007.00353.x
- October 23, 2009
- 11:54 AM
- 606 views
Rebounding may be good for the brokenhearted
by eHarmony Labs in eHarmony Labs Blog
Flying in the face of conventional wisdom, new research shows that a rebound relationship—or even just the promise of one—might be helpful in alleviating the attachment to a former relationship.... Read more »
Spielmann, S., MacDonald, G., & Wilson, A. (2009) On the Rebound: Focusing on Someone New Helps Anxiously Attached Individuals Let Go of Ex-Partners. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35(10), 1382-1394. DOI: 10.1177/0146167209341580
- October 21, 2009
- 12:00 PM
- 994 views
First Online Banking…then what?
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
If the wife of FBI boss Robert Mueller has allegedly warned him not to use online banking because his incompetence on the computer could leave them open to online fraud, then is there any hope for protection for the rest of us. This is especially true given the recent news that usernames and passwords for [...]Post from: David Bradley's Sciencetext Tech TalkFirst Online Banking…then what?
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Susan Sproule, & Norm Archer. (2010) Measuring identity theft and identity fraud. Int. J. Business Governance and Ethics, 5(1/2), 51-63. info:/
- October 19, 2009
- 05:40 AM
- 976 views
Fall Colors and Autumn Leaves
by David Bradley in SciScoop Science Forum
Earlier this year, researchers in Finland and Israel sought an explanation for the 35 million year puzzle as to why fall colors in the US are mainly red and why autumn leaves turn mainly yellow in Europe.
The green of the leaves of deciduous trees in spring and summer is caused mainly by the presence of [...]... Read more »
Lev-Yadun, S., & Holopainen, J. (2009) Why red-dominated autumn leaves in America and yellow-dominated autumn leaves in Northern Europe?. New Phytologist, 183(3), 506-512. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.02904.x
- October 18, 2009
- 06:40 PM
- 1,089 views
Transportation Lifelines and Critical Infrastructure
by Jan Husdal in husdal.com
This is the first paper that sparked my research interest in transportation vulnerability, and what would later become the focus area of my research: the cost of transportation vulnerability and the benefit of transportation reliability: Dalziell, E & Nicholson, A (2000) Risk and Impact of Natural Hazards on a Road Network. As far as I am aware of, the Dalziell-Nicholson paper is one of the first attempts to calculate a cost benefit ratio for road closure versus mitigation investments, where the........ Read more »
Dalziell, E., & Nicholson, A. (2001) Risk and Impact of Natural Hazards on a Road Network. Journal of Transportation Engineering, 127(2), 159. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-947X(2001)127:2(159)
- October 18, 2009
- 11:22 AM
- 660 views
Metallica Goes The Stem Cell Way
by Amiya in Physiology physics woven fine
I had previously written a little about stem cells. While researchers still don’t yet know exactly how the four factors transform the fully differentiated fibroblast cells back into pluripotency, possible explanations are pouring in.Pluripotency (by which the stem cell may become any tissue; muscle or nerve, for example) and “self renewal” (cells should not only differentiate, some ready stock of stem cells must be there for future need) are important determinants for stem cells.According ........ Read more »
Okita, K., Ichisaka, T., & Yamanaka, S. (2007) Generation of germline-competent induced pluripotent stem cells. Nature, 448(7151), 313-317. DOI: 10.1038/nature05934
- October 15, 2009
- 05:50 PM
- 1,049 views
A Silent Mass Extinction
Who cares about insects? Aren’t they just agricultural pests, household nuisances, and harborers of disease? I surely hope that is simply an attempt at exaggeration or at best an antiquated notion. Insects are vital to ecosystem management and fill important environmental roles as pollinators, decomposers parasites, herbivores, predators, and prey. Additionally, as approximately 50% of [...]... Read more »
FONSECA, C. (2009) The Silent Mass Extinction of Insect Herbivores in Biodiversity Hotspots. Conservation Biology. DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01327.x
- October 13, 2009
- 08:00 AM
- 850 views
Metal Bottle Tops and Landfill Mining
by sciencebase in Sciencebase Science Blog
Reduce, re-use, and recycle. Just one of the countless mantras of the twenty-first century that we are told will save the planet. Of course, my grandmother used to put it far more succinctly and in a much more accessible form: waste not, want not.
Now, we have carbon footprints, emissions targets, and landfill directives, that are [...]Metal Bottle Tops and Landfill Mining is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
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Mahmoud A. Rabah. (2009) Recovery of aluminium alloys and some valuable salts from spent bottle covers. Int. J. Environment and Waste Management, 5(1/2), 194-210. info:/
- October 10, 2009
- 10:24 PM
- 1,104 views
BioEngineered personalized human bone grafts created from bone marrow stem cells
by Abhishek Tiwari in Fisheye Perspective
Scale up of engineered bone grafts towards clinical applications is always a central challenge in regenerative medicine. In latest article PNAS Grayson et. al report an approach to develop clinically sized viable bone grafts of human temporomandibular joint (TMJ) condylar or Jaw bone seeded with human bone marrow stem/progenitor cells (hMSCs). This study was carried out by a research group led by Dr Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic at the Columbia University and it appears in the online issue of journ........ Read more »
Grayson, W., Frohlich, M., Yeager, K., Bhumiratana, S., Chan, M., Cannizzaro, C., Wan, L., Liu, X., Guo, X., & Vunjak-Novakovic, G. (2009) Regenerative Medicine Special Feature: Engineering anatomically shaped human bone grafts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0905439106
- October 10, 2009
- 12:44 PM
- 1,183 views
Defining absolute protein abundance
by Simon Cockell in Fuzzier Logic
At the heart of Systems Biology is a vast hunger for measurements. mRNA abundance, metabolite concentration, reactions rates, degradation rates, protein abundance. This last measurement has long been problematic for researchers, mass spectrometers get increasingly accurate and powerful, but are still hindered by the simple fact that observed signal intensity does not necessarily correlate directly with the [...]... Read more »
Malmström, J., Beck, M., Schmidt, A., Lange, V., Deutsch, E., & Aebersold, R. (2009) Proteome-wide cellular protein concentrations of the human pathogen Leptospira interrogans. Nature, 460(7256), 762-765. DOI: 10.1038/nature08184
- October 7, 2009
- 04:00 PM
- 779 views
Gen-F Scientists Ignoring Social Networking
by sciencebase in Sciencebase Science Blog
A quick analysis of online social networks, such as LinkedIn and Xing would suggest that a mere 1 in 7 research scientists use such tools as part of their work. This contrasts starkly with the business world where uptake is up to 88%. In other words almost 9 out of every ten employees in the [...]Gen-F Scientists Ignoring Social Networking is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
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Lackes, R., Siepermann, M., & Frank, E. (2009) Social networks as an approach to the enhancement of collaboration among scientists. International Journal of Web Based Communities, 5(4), 577. DOI: 10.1504/IJWBC.2009.028091
- October 7, 2009
- 01:27 PM
- 1,178 views
Pennes Bioheat Transfer Equation
by Arunn in nOnoScience (a.k.a. Unruled Notebook)
It can be argued that one of the most influential articles ever published in the Journal of Applied Physiology is the Analysis of tissue and arterial blood temperatures in the resting human forearm by Harry H. Pennes, which appeared in Volume 1, No. 2, published in August, 1948. Thus begins Prof. Wissler, his 1998 revisit [...]... Read more »
PENNES HH. (1948) Analysis of tissue and arterial blood temperatures in the resting human forearm. Journal of applied physiology, 1(2), 93-122. PMID: 18887578
- September 30, 2009
- 02:09 AM
- 1,160 views
Where should that new store or temple be?
by Arunn in nOnoScience (a.k.a. Unruled Notebook)
Where should a business set up its new commercial store – chain or single – to maximize its profit? There may be a demand for the store in a sparsely populated region but it may be wiser to locate the store in a densely populated region for more profit. Is there a definite correlation between population density and commercial facility density?
Similarly, if the government or citizen group wants to locate a public facility – temples, toilets, grocery store, fire station &ndas........ Read more »
Um, J., Son, S., Lee, S., Jeong, H., & Kim, B. (2009) Scaling laws between population and facility densities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(34), 14236-14240. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0901898106
- September 29, 2009
- 04:07 PM
- 1,041 views
Laser-imaging bird habitats
by Katie Kline in EcoTone
A paper out in the October issue of Ecological Applications puts forth a new use for light detection and ranging technology, or LiDAR: the prediction of bird habitats.
LiDAR technology uses laser imaging techniques to develop maps of forest vegetation structure by sending laser beams from aircrafts that fly over a study area. In this case, [...]
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Seavy, N., Viers, J., & Wood, J. (2009) Riparian bird response to vegetation structure: a multiscale analysis using LiDAR measurements of canopy height. Ecological Applications, 19(7), 1848-1857. DOI: 10.1890/08-1124.1
- September 29, 2009
- 06:02 AM
- 1,083 views
How we see? How they see? Simulation of vision in myopia, catract, supervision...
by Pablo Artal in Optics confidential
Short lecture of Pablo Artal, professor of Optics at the University of Murcia in Spain on how different persons see the world. Based in the use of a unique research tool: the adaptive optics visual simulator. Learn how a myopic person sees, or a person with cataract or how a lucky individual with "supervision" can read letters at great distance!... Read more »
E. J. Fernández, S. Manzanera, P. Piers, P. Artal. (2002) Adaptive optics visual simulator. J. Refract. Surg. info:/
- September 28, 2009
- 04:00 PM
- 886 views
microRNAs
by sciencebase in Sciencebase Science Blog
Until 2001, few people had heard the term micro ribonucleic acids, but these little chunks of nucleic acid, just 21 to 23 bases long, have been conserved throughout evolution. They don’t code for proteins, but they do seem to be involved in the regulation of immunity, the development and differentiation of immune cells, antibody production [...]microRNAs is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
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Virendra S. Gomase, & and Akshay N. Parundekar. (2009) microRNA: human disease and development. Int. J. Bioinformatics Research and Applications, 5(5), 479-500. info:/
- September 24, 2009
- 12:17 PM
- 650 views
Use enumerated constants in Java
by Yingliang Du in Yingliang Du's Blog
In the article “Create enumerated constants in Java” , Eric point out static final constants like this:
static final int YELLOW = 0;
static final int GREEN = 1;
static final int BLUE = 2;
had the following drawbacks:
The major drawback is the lack of type safety. Any [...]... Read more »
Eric Armstrong. (1997) Create enumerated constants in Java. http://www.javaworld.com/jw-07-1997/jw-07-enumerated.html. info:/
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