Group Of Young Researchers Research Articles

Catalytic Methods for Direct Access to Chiral High-Added-Value Products

This account summarizes the activities of the first three years of our young research group working in the field of homogeneous asymmetric catalysis.

Modeling Global Land‐Use Decision Making Analysis, Integration and Modeling of the Earth System (AIMES) Third Young Scholar's Network Workshop; Bristol, United Kingdom, 2–4 June 2007

The need to understand human impacts on the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems and to design sustainable management policies necessitates integrating land‐use decision making into an Earth systems perspective.To address this, the Third AIMES Young Scholar's Network Workshop on Modeling Land‐Use Decision Making brought togetheran interdisciplinary group of young researchers from diverse backgrounds, ranging from biophysical to socioeconomic research. Participants came from both developing and developed countries. The workshop sought to (1) improve understanding of land‐use decision‐making processes and (2) identify knowledge gaps that hamper progress in integrating these processes into Earth system models.

IN MEMORY OF PIERA SPADEA

Piera graduated ‘Magna cum Laude’ at the University of Padua in 1961, discussing a thesis on field mapping and petrography of the Garian vulcanites, Libia. After a year in Padua with a scholarship she moved to Milan where she did research on the Karakorum Chain, Pakistan, collaborating with prof. Ardito Desio, and on the Triassic volcanoclastic rocks of Friuli, together with Prof. Riccardo Assereto. We met in 1963, in a beautiful spring day on the Etna Volcano, and since then our life journeys became entwined. In 1966 we got married and Piera moved to Catania, where I then lived. Following the suggestion of Prof. Leo Ogniben, who very much appreciated the studies that were performed in those years on Ophiolites by the young research group of the University of Florence, Piera began to do research on Ophiolites, that she continued until few weeks before her death. This line of research brought Piera to study rocks of various Italian regions: Lucania, Calabria, Liguria, often in cooperation with her colleagues from Florence, and other ophiolitic areas, like Corsica, the Northern Andes in Colombia, the Urals, where she established collaboration projects with many scientists worldwide. I here just mention among them, Prof. Marc Vuagnat, one of the pioneers in ophiolite studies, that had a great influence on Piera, and Prof. Adolphe Nicolas, whose studies on the relationships between ophiolites and present oceanic rocks have been for Piera an important reference point. From ophiolites she quickly jumped to do research on modern oceanic crustal rocks; she first participated in 1989 to the international Ocean Drilling Project in Sulu and Celebes, Pacific Ocean. She continued in 1991 with a dredging campaign in the Tyrrhenian Sea on the Russian ship Antares, and the last one was in 1993 when she participated to the exploration of fastspreading Mid oceanic Ridges on the submersible Nautile of the Ifremer, where she reached 5,000 meters below sea level. The results from these researches highlighted her as a scientist, inasmuch as to Piera being called to be part of the research projects evaluation committee for ODP (Joides Sterring and Valuation Panel on the Dynamics of Earth Interior). In this role she organized in year 2000 in Udine the Committee Meeting, where scientists from all over the world attended: Piera was the only Italian one. The meeting coincided with an exhacerbation of her illness, so that it could be held just thanks to her colleagues from OGS. Love for rocks also brought Piera to study them as building materials, in particular the stones used in art pieces and their degradation and weathering processes; in this field too, that Piera considered her ‘weekend’ job, she achieved significant results. Up until a few weeks before her demise, Piera continued to work and communicate with her colleagues for researches that were in press, in particular for the present Issue of ‘Ofioliti’, for refereeing geology papers from her colleagues and for organizing new research projects. Then, on August 13, Piera left us and many threads were cut. What remains are the words of affection and esteem of many of her colleagues and the memory of her enthusiasm.

My Experiences as an IUB Travel Fellow

IUBMB LifeVolume 57, Issue 4-5 p. 255-255 ArticleFree Access My Experiences as an IUB Travel Fellow Jisnuson Svasti, Jisnuson Svasti Department of Biochemistry and Center for Protein Structure and Function, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok, ThailandSearch for more papers by this author Jisnuson Svasti, Jisnuson Svasti Department of Biochemistry and Center for Protein Structure and Function, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok, ThailandSearch for more papers by this author First published: 03 January 2008 https://doi.org/10.1080/15216540500091916Citations: 1AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article.Citing Literature Volume57, Issue4-5April 2005Pages 255-255 RelatedInformation

Spreading the evolutionary synthesis: Theodosius Dobzhansky and genetics in Brazil

The so-called Evolutionary Synthesis, the present paradigm for evolutionary explanations, was established during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. One of the leading scientists contributing to this was Theodosius Dobzhansky, a Russian born geneticist who emigrated to the United States of America in 1927 to study with Thomas Hunt Morgan. He was also responsible for the development of Drosophila genetics in Brazil, which was the main organism employed in experimental studies of evolution. Dobzhansky had several opportunities to visit Brazil starting in 1943, to do field and laboratory work as well as teaching. All these activities were fundamental in the spreading of new concepts, methodology, and objectives of the Synthesis to a new audience. This paper discusses the results of the interaction between Dobzhansky and a group of young Brazilian researchers, particularly from the University of São Paulo.

Marienthal ― The Beginnings of Lazarsfeld's Empirical Sociology in Central Europe

Last year was the one hundred-year anniversary of the birth of Paul Lazarsfeld, the leader of the Marienthal project, and one of the creators of modern empirical, sociological research. The authors of the Marienthal study - Paul Lazarsfeld, Marie Jahoda and Hans Zeisel - applied a model of research that shows traces of the creative workshop that characterizes its place of origin - Central Europe. The subject, the aim of the study, the amount of influence, the methodology used, and the manner of its origin indicate that it was not a piece of work that was looking to establish or to confirm a great new theory. The aim of this group of young Viennese researchers was to produce a detailed analysis of a specific social phenomenon - unemployment - in one of its specific forms, and to conduct a thorough study of the unemployed community of Marienthal. The aim of this paper is to acquaint today's readers with the results of the Central European research mentioned here dating from the early stages of empirical sociology, and with the methods that the authors applied.

Some thoughts on combinatorial optimisation

A group of young researchers from the ESI X summer school, HEC, Jouy-en-Josas 1994, give their personal views on the current status of, and prospects for, Combinatorial Optimisation. Several issues are considered and discussed with emphasis on a selected number of techniques: heuristics and polyhedral approaches, and problems: knapsack, quadratic 0–1 programming, machine scheduling, routing and network design.

Dresden Hygiene Exhibition of 1930

The International Hygiene Exhibition of 1930 in Dresden is in itself a major fact in the medical and sanitary annals of the past year; for the Soviet Union, it is of particular interest, because our Union exhibited and occupied a very prominent place at it. The Narkompros and the Narkomzdrav delegated a significant group of professors, young researchers and doctors to this exhibition and this already obliges the former participants of the exhibition to give a reporting characteristic of the latter. (Among the 12 persons sent from the People's Commissariat of the RSFSR to Kazan were Prof. M. M. Gran and Associate Professor S. M. Schwartz). But, in addition, the results of the exhibition as a whole and the performance of the Soviet Union, the pricing of the exhibition and our Soviet performance at it deserve serious attention from broad Soviet public circles and, first of all, medical ones.