40 research outputs found
Stanford Universityâs John Otterbein Snyder: Student, Collaborator, and Colleague of David Starr Jordan and Charles Henry Gilbert
John Otterbein Snyder (1867â1943) was an early student of David Starr Jordan at Stanford University and subsequently rose to become an assistant professor there. During his 34 years with the university he taught a wide variety of
courses in various branches of zoology and advised numerous students. He eventually mentored 8 M.A. and 4 Ph.D. students to completion at Stanford. He also assisted in
the collection of tens of thousands of fish specimens from the western Pacific, central Pacific, and the West Coast of North America, part of the time while stationed as âNaturalistâ aboard the U.S. Fish Commissionâs Steamer Albatross (1902â06). Although his early publications dealt
mainly with fish groups and descriptions (often as a junior author with Jordan), after 1910 he became more autonomous and eventually rose to become one of the Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus spp., experts on the West Coast. Throughout his career, he was especially esteemed by colleagues as âa
stimulating teacher,â âan excellent biologist,â and âa fine man
Agricultural policies exacerbate honeybee pollination service supply-demand mismatches across Europe
Declines in insect pollinators across Europe have raised concerns about the supply of pollination services to agriculture. Simultaneously, EU agricultural and biofuel policies have encouraged substantial growth in the cultivated area of insect pollinated crops across the continent. Using data from 41 European countries, this study demonstrates that the recommended number of honeybees required to provide crop pollination across Europe has risen 4.9 times as fast as honeybee stocks between 2005 and 2010. Consequently, honeybee stocks were insufficient to supply >90% of demands in 22 countries studied. These findings raise concerns about the capacity of many countries to cope with major losses of wild pollinators and highlight numerous critical gaps in current understanding of pollination service supplies and demands, pointing to a pressing need for further research into this issue
Resolution of inflammation: a new therapeutic frontier
Dysregulated inflammation is a central pathological process in diverse disease states. Traditionally, therapeutic approaches have sought to modulate the pro- or anti-inflammatory limbs of inflammation, with mixed success. However, insight into the pathways by which inflammation is resolved has highlighted novel opportunities to pharmacologically manipulate these processes â a strategy that might represent a complementary (and perhaps even superior) therapeutic approach. This Review discusses the state of the art in the biology of resolution of inflammation, highlighting the opportunities and challenges for translational research in this field
Fibroblasts of Recipient Origin Contribute to Bronchiolitis Obliterans in Human Lung Transplants
The bees don't know and the flowers don't care: the effect of heterospecific pollen on reproduction in co-occurring Thysanotus
Learning and Change in 20th-Century British Economic Policy
Despite considerable interest in the means by which policy learning occurs, and in how it is that the framework of policy may be subject to radical change, the âblack boxâ of economic policy making remains surprisingly murky. This article utilizes Peter Hallâs concept of âsocial learningâ to develop a more sophisticated model of policy learning; one in which paradigm failure does not necessarily lead to wholesale paradigm replacement, and in which an administrative battle of ideas may be just as important a determinant of paradigm change as a political struggle. It then applies this model in a survey of U.K. economic policy making since the 1930s: examining the shift to âKeynesianismâ during the 1930s and 1940s; the substantial revision of this framework in the 1960s; the collapse of theâKeynesian-plusâ framework in the 1970s; and the major revisions to the new âneoliberalâ policy framework in the 1980s and 1990s
Does Economics have an Effect? Towards an Economics of Economics
"Due to its formality and highly analytic thinking, economics is often attributed a leading role among the social sciences and a prominent position as contributor to economic or social issues in the real world. Fact is, however, that the empirical proof for such a claim is either missing or anecdotal. This paper aims to outline the “economics of economics”. It surveys and compares approaches of impact measurement such as a production function of economics or the demand and supply of trained economists and discusses the determinants of the strength of the influence of economics. It furthermore discriminates between the impact of economic ideas versus that of economists as scientists or politicians.