cCarolina Population Center, Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA ...

The primary somatosensory cortex (S1) of mammals is critically important in the perception of touch and related sensorimotor behaviors. In 2015, the Blue Brain Project (BBP) developed a groundbreaking ...

The control of general nonlinear systems is a challenging task in particular for large-scale models as they occur in the semi-discretization of partial differential equations (PDEs) of, say, fluid ...

Minimizing the energy consumption of desalination processes is an important goal for augmenting freshwater production and mitigating water scarcity. Chemical, civil, mechanical, and environmental ...

Phosphorus (P) reserves in Earth’s rocks are finite. P loss from land to rivers threatens not only food production but also aquatic ecosystem health. Long-term trend analysis of P loss has ...

Methane, the second most important greenhouse gas, has varied markedly in its atmospheric growth rate. The cause of these fluctuations remains poorly understood. Recent efforts to determine the ...

cComprehensive Information Systems for Tobacco Control, Tobacco Free Initiative, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland dDepartment of Health Statistics and Information Systems, World Health ...