This paper combines two research publications working toward the development of an integrated framework for commercial sustainable building design. Current methodologies utilize a traditional architectural top-down approach to sustainable building design practices that consumes financial and temporal resources early in the design process. By identifying the array mechanical subsystems required...
The wide expanse of the sea, the inter-linkages among, and the productivity of its resources have until recently led most researchers to consider it unrealistic that humans could have more than local impact on marine ecosystems and their biodiversity. This perception is changing, however, as more evidence of the scale...
We conducted laboratory experiments to assess the bioelemental plasticity of cultures of Trichodesmium
IMS101 under phosphorus (P)-replete, P-restricted, and light-limited conditions. The results reveal a high degree
of stoichiometric flexibility. Specifically, Trichodesmium IMS101 is capable of growth with carbon (C) : nitrogen
(N) : P ratios of C₅₈₅±₅₆ : N₉₀±₁₀...
This work is a compilation of problems that deal with multiscale analysis of transport phenomena in environmental systems. A common feature among the problems studied here is the presence of non-negligible microscale structure in various forms. Each problem is approached from the perspective that a macroscopic observable encodes aspects of...
Understanding the precise role of the immune system in cancer has been hindered by the complexity of the immune response and challenges in measuring immune cell types in health and disease in the context of large epidemiologic studies. In this review, we present the rationale to study immunity in cancer...
Background: There has been a long-standing need in biomedical research for a method that quantifies the normally mixed composition of leukocytes beyond what is possible by simple histological or flow cytometric assessments. The latter is restricted by the labile nature of protein epitopes, requirements for cell processing, and timely cell...
A major achievement in research supported by the Kluane Lake Research Station was the recovery, in 2001–02, of a suite of cores from the icefields of the central St. Elias Mountains, Yukon, by teams of researchers from Canada, the United States, and Japan. This project led to the development of...
Ongoing greenhouse gas emissions can modify climate processes and induce shifts in ocean temperature, pH, oxygen
concentration, and productivity, which in turn could alter biological and social systems. Here, we provide a synoptic global
assessment of the simultaneous changes in future ocean biogeochemical variables over marine biota and their broader...
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, Jeroen Ingels13,14, Daniel O. B. Jones6, Lisa A. Levin10, Hideyuki Nakano15,
Karl Norling16, Eva Ramirez