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The term Digital Library refers to a wide array of different organisations and collections that share the common trait of exposing digital content to a community of users. Digital libraries are applied in many different contexts ranging from academic institutions to public libraries, archives, museums and industries. The type of content that is stored in digital libraries varies depending on the organisation, it can either be reproduction of physical objects or content which is "born digital".

"I wrote/curated a guidebook on democratized science instrumentation, documenting both hardware and software that significantly increase people's opportunity to participate in scientific discovery. The paper was commissioned by the Science and Technology Policy Institute (STPI) to be presented to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)"

"14.06.2013 - Biologie, Geowissenschaften William Orsi (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole) et al., Nature, doi: 10.1038/nature12230 Aktives Leben in der Tiefe RNA-Analyse liefert ersten umfassenden Überblick über Aktivität, Ernährung und Bewegungsformen in der tiefen Biosphäre"

"Die Forscher um Juniorprofessor Dr. Martin Thanbichler von der Philipps-Universität beschreiben die neu entdeckte Struktur in der aktuellen Ausgabe der Fachzeitschrift „Cell", die am 7. Dezember erscheint. „Für Bakterien ist dies das erste Beispiel einer Barriere, welche die Proteindiffussion einschränkt", erklärt Thanbichler, der eine Arbeitsgruppe am Marburger Max-Planck-Institut für terrestrische Mikrobiologie leitet und als Seniorautor des Aufsatzes firmiert. Er und sein Team untersuchten das Modellbakterium Caulobacter crescentus, das an einem Ende einen Stiel bildet, der durch Querbänder unterteilt ist. Er dient vermutlich als Abstandshalter, der die Zelle bei Nährstoffmangel von der Oberfläche entfernt und so in Bereiche erhöhter Nährstoffkonzentrationen bringt."

"How many mammal species live in the forest? It sounds like a simple question, but the actual distributions of shy, small or rare mammals are often murky, confounding conservationists seeking to protect them. Yet a paper published online on Tuesday in the journal Molecular Ecology explores a new way to track biodiversity: by capturing flies that feed on carcasses. The flies' stomachs offer DNA diaries of their recent meals, giving scientists clues to which animals live and die in the forest. "The animals are there, but you just don't see them," said Fabian Leendertz, a wildlife epidemiologist at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin and an author of the paper. "Those flies will find them and will tell us what is there"

"Bislang hatte man eigentlich angenommen, dass die sexuelle Aktivität eher zunimmt, wenn der Mann im Haushalt hilft. Es kommt aber offenbar stark darauf an, welche Arbeiten er übernimmt - männliche oder "unmännliche". War die Aufgabenteilung klassisch - kümmerten sich die Männer also praktisch ausschließlich um Garten, Auto und Geld - hatten die Paare im Durchschnitt 1,6 Mal so häufig Sex wie Paare mit einer gerechteren Arbeitsteilung.... Sabino Kornrich (Juan March Institute, Madrid) et al.: American Sociological Review, doi: 10.1177/0003122412472340"

"Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass das angeborene Fluchtverhalten auf Kohlendioxid in Fruchtfliegen je nach ihrem Sättigungszustand von zwei parallelen neuronalen Schaltkreisen gesteuert wird. „Ist die Fliege hungrig, verlässt sie sich nicht mehr auf die "direkte Leitung", sondern benutzt Hirnzentren, mit denen sie interne und äußere Signale abwägen und eine ausgewogene Entscheidung treffen kann", erklärt Grunwald-Kadow und fügt hinzu: „Es ist faszinierend, in welchem Ausmaß der Stoffwechsel und Hunger die verarbeitenden Prozesse im Gehirn beeinflussen." ***** Lasse B. Bräcker, K.P. Siju, Nelia Varela, Yoshinori Aso, Mo Zhang, Irina Hein, Maria Luisa Vasconcelos, Ilona C. Grunwald Kadow Essential role of the mushroom body in context dependent CO2 avoidance in Drosophila Current Biology, 13 June 2013 Max-Planck-Institut für Neurobiologie"

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"We have sensitive body parts wired to the same area of the brain as rodents' fine-tuned whiskers. In people, "stimulating the fingers, lips or face in general could all have a similar effect," says UCI doctoral student Melissa Davis, co-author of the study, which appears in the June issue of PLoS ONE. "It's gender-neutral," adds co-author Ron Frostig, professor of neurobiology & behavior. He cautions that the research, funded by the National Institutes of Health, is a first step, albeit an important one.... "with the potential for maybe doing things before a victim even reaches the emergency room.""

"When the right microorganisms are at work, immune cells involved in the development of autoimmune illnesses like psoriasis, multiple sclerosis and arthritis, can develop anti-inflammatory properties. Scientists at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland, have now made this discovery. Their work is published in the current issue of the scientific journal Nature*. The scientists were able to prove that particular fungi activate the immune cells involved in the development of certain illnesses, whereas other microorganisms, in particular bacteria that are found naturally on our skin, lend an anti-inflammatory function to them. "This not only demonstrates that the composition of our microflora has a decisive role in the development of chronic illnesses, but also that the key cells causing illness can develop an anti-inflammatory 'twin'," explained Dr. Christina Zielinski, first author of the study."

German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, with sites in Kaiserslautern, Saarbrücken, Bremen and Berlin, is the leading German research institute in the field of innovative software technology. In the international scientific community, DFKI ranks among the most recognized "Centers of Excellence".

Heather is currently conducting her doctoral research at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute and running Marilyn Monrobot Labs in NYC, which creates socially intelligent robot performances and sensor-based electronic art. Founder of the Robot Film Festival and Cyborg Cabaret, Heather was on the 2011 Forbes List for 30 under 30 in Science.

The Library of Congress is launching a review of the bibliographic framework to better accommodate future needs. A major focus of the initiative will be to determine a transition path for the MARC 21 exchange format in order to reap the benefits of newer technology while preserving a robust data exchange that has supported resource sharing and cataloging cost savings in recent decades. This work will be carried out in consultation with the format's formal partners -- Library and Archives Canada and the British Library -- and informal partners -- the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and other national libraries, the agencies that provide library services and products, the many MARC user institutions, and the MARC advisory committees such as the MARBI committee of ALA, the Canadian Committee on MARC, and the BIC Bibliographic Standards Group in the UK.

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence supports individual researchers and research groups. We also sponsor conferences, prizes, competitions, and the construction of large public knowledge bases and evaluation frameworks. We are particularly interested in partnering with corporate and public-sector entities in order to leverage complementary resources.

We want to be the leading organization in knowledge management and knowledge technologies in Austria. We want to be among the leading industry-based and application-oriented research institutions in knowledge management and knowledge technologies in Europe.

ERCIM - the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics - aims to foster collaborative work within the European research community and to increase co-operation with European industry. Leading research institutes from nineteen European countries are members of ERCIM.

""We wondered how individuals assess the credibility of other people in simple social interactions," said Read Montague, director of the Human Neuroimaging Laboratory and the Computational Psychiatry Unit at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, who led the study. "We found a strong correlation between the amygdala and a baseline level of distrust, which may be based on a person's beliefs about the trustworthiness of other people in general, his or her emotional state, and the situation at hand"

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