Infrastructure disarray as a more appropriate metaphor for the sanitation challenges in India today.
Water Sharing Across Cultures: Gifts, Exchanges, and other Transfers between Households
Household water sharing is rarely studied by scholars, but is crucial to human survival all around the world.
Keep the Plasmid Party Rolling, But Keep it Cool with Structured Antisense RNAs
Bacterial plasmids constitute a wealth of shared DNA amounting to about 20% of the total prokaryotic pangenome. Plasmids replicate autonomously and control their replication by maintaining a fairly constant number of copies within a given host. Plasmids should acquire a good fitness to their hosts so that they do not constitute a genetic load.
Assessing the Ability for Cities to Contribute to the Global Response to Climate Change
Exploration of three exciting lines of inquiry – organized around the concepts of experimentation, horizontal coordination, and vertical integration – signalling the need for greater attention to the politics and power relations that are shaping the global urban response.
Personal Mobility and Climate Change
An exploration of how travel can also be understood as something intimately connected to historic, economic and cultural influences.
Why Dominant Individuals are More Vulnerable to Develop Stress-Induced Depression
Thomas Larrieu and Carmen Sandi discuss whether social rank is a predictive risk factor for stress-induced depression.
Materials for Healthcare: Virtually All Advances
Cutting-edge research from Advanced Heathcare Materials assembled in Virtual Issues.
Building-Integrated Photovoltaics: Sustainable Cities
An overview on BIPV considering architectural integrity and historic value of old buildings exemplified by Rome´s built environment but also looking at a broader perspective.
Simulating Complex Systems: Agent-based Modeling in Molecular Systems Biology
Mohammad Soheilypour and Mohammad Mofrad discuss a technique termed ‘agent-based modeling’ that is used in systems biology.
Tales Around the Clock: poly(A) Tails in Circadian Gene Expression
Light is perhaps the main environmental cue (zeitgeber) that affects several aspects of physiology and behaviour, such as sleep/wake cycles, orientation of birds and bees, and leaf movements in plants. Temperature can serve as the main zeitgeber in the absence of light cycles, even though it does not lead to rhythmicity through the same mechanism as light.