This essay reflects on three figures that can be used to make sense of the changing nature of public participation in the life sciences today: outlaws, hackers and Victorian gentlemen.Occasioned by Fruit Bowls a symposium held at UCLA (Outlaw Biology: Public Participation in the Age of Big Bio), the essay introduces several different modes of parti
This paper investigates the Cucker-Smale flocking control problem of leader-follower multiagent systems in the presence of periodic intermittent communication, in which networked agents update the states by communicating with their neighbors during active periods and remain stable during dormancy periods.A distributed update algorithm that relies o
Duckweed (Lemnaceae) can support the development of freshwater Snoring aquaculture if used as extractive species in Integrated MultiTrophic Aquaculture (IMTA) systems.These aquatic plants have the advantage of producing protein-rich biomass that has several potential uses.On the contrary, other biological compartments, such as microalgae and bacter
Compared to the wide use of digital elevation model (DEM), digital surface model (DSM) receives less attention because that it is composed by Lighting not only terrain surface, but also vegetations and man-made objects which are usually regarded as useless information.Nevertheless, these objects are useful for the identification of obstacles around
The aim of our study was to estimate the association of cigarette smoking with burnout syndrome in medical students at the University Garbage Bags of Kragujevac, Serbia.Burnout syndrome is defined as a triad of symptoms: emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and academic inefficiency.Cigarette smoking was significantly associated with cynicism, with smok