Center for urban ecological dialectics at Mill Street: A living building in Geneva, New York

Protecting drinking water and emphasizing a need to understand historical watersheds benefits urban ecologies. Geneva, a City in New York State (USA) is to invest in its economic future - especially regarding water for greater public use. To this end, an educational and experiential center in Geneva shall inform the public of a creek’s valuable sub-sources and its own important municipal hydro-geological features. Focusing on the city’s Castle Creek topography, a comprehensive design is developed adjacent to the creek’s urban density combined with a goal towards preservation. Existing watershed education programs, socio-ecological connectivity, and public recreation are the stimuli informing ecological behavior around the creek as a means for better treatment of connected public stormwater systems within its parks, and public-use spaces. This thesis makes the recommendation for the case of opening up urban natural water-spaces (river daylighting) and establishing a center of ecological education, interpreting daylighting, for greater public dialogue between academic scientists and laymen. Considering all urban environments, a built center of excellence (Center for Urban Ecological Dialectics, or CUED) shall be developed to address these needs. Abstract (Spanish) Proteger el agua potable y enfatizar la necesidad de comprender las cuencas hidrográficas históricas beneficia a las ecologías urbanas. Ginebra, una ciudad del estado de Nueva York (EE. UU.) Invertirá en su futuro económico, especialmente en lo que respecta al agua para un mayor uso público. Con este fin, un centro educativo y experimental en Ginebra informará al público sobre las valiosas fuentes secundarias de un arroyo y sus propias características hidrogeológicas municipales importantes. Centrándose en la topografía de Castle Creek de la ciudad, se desarrolla un diseño integral adyacente a la densidad urbana del arroyo combinado con un objetivo hacia la preservación. Los programas educativos existentes sobre cuencas hidrográficas, la conectividad socioecológica y la recreación pública son los estímulos que informan el comportamiento ecológico alrededor del arroyo como un medio para un mejor tratamiento de los sistemas públicos de aguas pluviales conectados dentro de sus parques y espacios de uso público. Esta tesis hace la recomendación para el caso de abrir espacios naturales urbanos de agua (iluminación natural de los ríos) y establecer un centro de educación ecológica, interpretando la iluminación natural, para un mayor diálogo público entre científicos académicos y laicos. Teniendo en cuenta todos los entornos urbanos, se desarrollará un centro de excelencia construido (Centro de Dialéctica Ecológica Urbana, o CUED) para abordar estas necesidades

Finishing the euchromatic sequence of the human genome

The sequence of the human genome encodes the genetic instructions for human physiology, as well as rich information about human evolution. In 2001, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium reported a draft sequence of the euchromatic portion of the human genome. Since then, the international collaboration has worked to convert this draft into a genome sequence with high accuracy and nearly complete coverage. Here, we report the result of this finishing process. The current genome sequence (Build 35) contains 2.85 billion nucleotides interrupted by only 341 gaps. It covers ∼99% of the euchromatic genome and is accurate to an error rate of ∼1 event per 100,000 bases. Many of the remaining euchromatic gaps are associated with segmental duplications and will require focused work with new methods. The near-complete sequence, the first for a vertebrate, greatly improves the precision of biological analyses of the human genome including studies of gene number, birth and death. Notably, the human enome seems to encode only 20,000-25,000 protein-coding genes. The genome sequence reported here should serve as a firm foundation for biomedical research in the decades ahead

The Positive Ethical Organization: Enacting a Living Code of Ethics and Ethical Organizational Identity

authentic leadership, ethical organization, positive organizational scholarship, organizational culture, organizational identity,