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A Glance at Switzerland's Innovation Ecosystem in Food and Nutrition

CHIMIA, 2020
There are many reasons why Switzerland is a unique location for innovation: political stability, a stable and liberal economic system, outstanding infrastructure, excellent education, close links to foreign markets to name just a few examples.
Anna Bozzi, Michael Matthes
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Preface: New trends in first-passage methods and applications in the life sciences and engineering [PDF]

, 2020
This is the preface to the special issue of the Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, entitled "New trends in first-passage methods and applications in the life sciences and engineering"
arxiv   +1 more source

First principles in the life sciences: the free-energy principle, organicism, and mechanism

Synthese, 2018
The free-energy principle states that all systems that minimize their free energy resist a tendency to physical disintegration. Originally proposed to account for perception, learning, and action, the free-energy principle has been applied to the ...
M. Colombo, C. Wright
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Cyberbiosecurity: A Call for Cooperation in a New Threat Landscape

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2019
The life sciences now interface broadly with information technology (IT) and cybersecurity. This convergence is a key driver in the explosion of biotechnology research and its industrial applications in health care, agriculture, manufacturing, automation,
Lauren C. Richardson, Nancy D. Connell, Stephen M. Lewis, Eleonore Pauwels, Randy S. Murch   +4 more
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New indicators and indexes for benchmarking university–industry–government innovation in medical and life science clusters: results from the European FP7 Regions of Knowledge HealthTIES project

Health Research Policy and Systems, 2019
Background While the European Union is striving to become the ‘Innovation Union’, there remains a lack of quantifiable indicators to compare and benchmark regional innovation clusters.
Laurel D. Edmunds, Silvia Gluderer, Pavel V. Ovseiko, Roel Kamerling, Jacqueline Ton, Laura Vis, Mario Jenni, Gregory Tutton, Helen Lawton-Smith, Márta Völgyiné Nadabán, Máté Rab, Jon Rees, John Anson, Alexander D. Rushforth, Maxine Allen, Alastair M. Buchan, Montserrat Vendrell, Alex Casta, Gábor Mehes, Pancras C. W. Hogendoorn, Ernst Hafen, A. Bassim Hassan   +21 more
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Internship Experiences Contribute to Confident Career Decision Making for Doctoral Students in the Life Sciences

CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2018
An internship program model that supports life sciences doctoral students’ pursuit of a broad range of careers is described. Evaluation of the program model at two institutions finds that participation increases students’ confidence in career decision ...
A. Schnoes, A. Caliendo, J. Morand, T. Dillinger, Michelle E. Naffziger-Hirsch, B. Moses, J. Gibeling, Keith R. Yamamoto, Bill Lindstaedt, Richard McGee, Theresa C. O’Brien   +10 more
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Linked Environment Data for the Life Sciences [PDF]

arXiv, 2010
Environment Agencies from Europe and the US are setting up a network of Linked Environment Data and are looking to crosslink it with Linked Data contributions from the life sciences.
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MassBank: a public repository for sharing mass spectral data for life sciences.

Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 2010
MassBank is the first public repository of mass spectra of small chemical compounds for life sciences (
Hisayuki Horai, Masanori Arita, S. Kanaya, Yoshito Nihei, Tasuku Ikeda, Kazuhiro Suwa, Y. Ojima, Kenichi Tanaka, Satoshi Tanaka, K. Aoshima, Y. Oda, Yuji Kakazu, M. Kusano, Takayuki Tohge, Fumio Matsuda, Y. Sawada, M. Hirai, H. Nakanishi, Kazutaka Ikeda, N. Akimoto, T. Maoka, Hiroki Takahashi, T. Ara, N. Sakurai, H. Suzuki, D. Shibata, S. Neumann, T. Iida, Kenichi Tanaka, K. Funatsu, Fumito Matsuura, T. Soga, R. Taguchi, K. Saito, T. Nishioka   +34 more
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Quantifying the Origins of Life on a Planetary Scale [PDF]

, 2015
A simple, heuristic formula with parallels to the Drake Equation is introduced to help focus discussion on open questions for the origins of life in a planetary context. This approach indicates a number of areas where quantitative progress can be made on parameter estimation for determining origins of life probabilities.
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Stressors and stress symptoms of Life Science educators in schools in Tshwane North

South African Journal of Science, 2013
Increased workloads and curriculum changes have become an integral part of the teaching profession. Knowledge of the major stressors and stress symptoms of teachers is required for proper stress management.
Magdalena J.A. Crafford, Margaretha Viljoen   +1 more
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