This article presents herpetofaunal observations from Limnos and Agios Efstratios, two Asia Minor continental shelf islands in the Aegean Sea. Comprehensive surveys over 88 days in total on Limnos, over a period of nine years, consisted mainly of visual encounter surveys and road cruised observations, revealed the presence of three species of amphibians and twelve species of reptiles, including two new species records for the island (Malpolon insignitus and Pelobates syriacus). The results of these surveys provide a clearer understanding of the extant herpetofauna on Limnos and Agios Efstratios and offer discussion on natural history, possible erroneous historical records and preliminary ecological understanding of the herpetofaunal assemblages residing on these islands.

Article describes study examining the positive and negative predictive values of an Alzheimer's disease (AD) blood test if implemented in primary care.

This article reports solubility values of vanillin (component 3) in 2-(2-ethoxyethoxy)ethanol (Carbitol®, component 1) + water (component 2) mixtures at five temperatures from 298.15 to 318.15 K correlated with the Jouyban-Acree model combined with van't Hoff or Apelblat equations, and obtains models in second degree regarding the mixtures compositions.

This article contains visual observation data of the carbon star VY Ursae Majoris.

This article examines ground-state S-atoms generated by pulsed laser photolysis of OCS precursor, and monitored by time-resolved resonance fluorescence.

This paper provides an overview of the Ion Beam Modification and Analysis Laboratory facilities and some of the current research projects.

This article describes how nickel-layered silicate nanocomposite films were electrochemically deposited using pulsed potentiostatic conditions from an acidic plating bath containing exfoliated layered silicate to enhance adhesion to the substrate, corrosion resistance, and mechanical properties.

This article argues that a party's presence in elections across subnational units and its subsequent performance in these elections are determining factors for whether it enters the presidential race.

This article studies the joint action of the non-Poisson renewal events (NPR) yielding Continuous-time random walk (CTRW) with index α < 1 and two different generators of Hurst coefficient H ≠ 0.5, one generating fractional Brownian motion (FBM) and another scaled Brownian motion (SBM).

This article describes the first-ever multiethnic referent sample that spans community-based and clinic-based populations for implementation of an Alzheimer's disease blood screen.

This review explores the latest developments in Fourier transform mass spectrometry and Orbitrap based metabolomics technology, its advantages and drawbacks for using in metabolomics and lipidomics studies, and development of novel approaches for processing high resolution mass spectrometry data.

This essay poses an argument for epigenetics having a potentially profound role in our understanding of inheritance, natural selection and evolution, and deserving more attention.

This paper presents the development of a rich Internet application for automated detection of road blockage in post-disaster scenarios using volunteered geographic information from OpenStreetMap street centerlines and airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data.

This white paper comprehensively describes the insights that emerged from the Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives. Key topics include a typology of language archives, the perspectives of stakeholder groups, and improving access to language archives.

This article discusses a computational study of the reactions of atomic hydrogen with fluoromethanes and kinetics and product channels.

Article on an exploratory study of alkali sulfate aerosol formation during biomass combustion.

Article on kinetic studies of the reaction of atomic sulfur with acetylene.

Article on the oxidation of reduced sulfur species and carbonyl sulfide.

Article on an extracellular aspartic protease functions in Arabidopsis disease resistance signaling.

Article on the detection and quantification of engineered proanthocyanidins in transgenic plants.

Article on the in silico prediction of drug solubility in water-ethanol mixtures using Jouyban-Acree model.

Patent relating to monodisperse thermo-responsive microgels of poly(ethylene glycol) analogue-based biopolymers, their manufacture, and their applications.

Video recording of an entire interview with Dr. Ussama Makdisi, professor at Rice University.

Patent regarding the synthesis, uses and compositions of crystal hydrogels.