A TRANSDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO REFEREEAL

A Transdisciplinary Approach to Refereeal

The paper studies best practices for refereeal by a trans-disciplinary approach.Jewish Slander laws, governing best practices for communications with potentially adverse consequences, has Toasters developed a checklist to use prior to any such communication.We review the checklist and show its applicability to academic refereeal.The paper closes wi

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Rapid Generation of Ventral Spinal Cord-like Astrocytes from Human iPSCs for Modeling Non-Cell Autonomous Mechanisms of Lower Motor Neuron Disease

Astrocytes play important roles in the function and survival of neuronal cells.Dysfunctions of astrocytes are associated with numerous disorders and diseases of the nervous system, including motor neuron diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).Human-induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-based approaches are becoming increasingly importa

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Hummingbirds in high alpine habitats of the tropical Mexican mountains: new elevational records and ecological considerations

Most hummingbird species are distributed in tropical lowlands and mountains with few species reaching the alpine environments of high mountain peaks.Field surveys were conducted in nine alpine sites across four of the highest volcanoes in central Mexico for three years to document hummingbird occurrence, habitat use, and some aspects of behavior.We

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