The first science meeting of the European Science Foundation (ESF) network SEDIFLUX—sedimentary source-to-sink-fluxes in cold environments

Geomorphology ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 80 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Achim A. Beylich
Keyword(s):  
European Science Foundation ◽  
Cold Environments ◽  
Source To Sink ◽  
European Science ◽  
Sedimentary Source

Nanobiotics: Challenging the anti-microbial perspective - The game changer?

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 5518 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deepak Narang ◽  
Jeevan Singh Tityal ◽  
Amit Jain ◽  
Reena Kulshreshtra ◽  
Fatima Khan
Keyword(s):  
Bacterial Resistance ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Drug Resistant ◽  
European Science Foundation ◽  
Resistance Development ◽  
Bacterial Diseases ◽  
European Science ◽  
Tremendous Impact ◽  
New Strategies ◽  
Game Changer

Antibiotics are the most important medical inventions in human history and are the invaluable weapons to fight against various infectious diseases. Multi drug resistant microorganisms are becoming a serious issue and increasingly public health problem in present day scenario. Antibiotics are becoming less useful due to increasing bacterial resistance. Development of new and more powerful antibiotics leading to drastic pathogens response by developing resistance to the point where the most powerful drugs in our arsenal are no longer effective against them. New strategies for the management of bacterial diseases are urgently needed and nanomaterials can be a very promising approach. Nanobiotics uses nano-sized tools for the successful management bacterial diseases and to gain increased understanding of the complex underlying patho-physiology of disease. (European Science Foundation. Forward Look Nanomedicine: An EMRC Consensus Opinion 2005. Available online: http://www.esf.org (accessed on 15 July 2017). The application of nanotechnologies to medicine, or nanomedicine, which has already demonstrated its tremendous impact on the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, is rapidly becoming a major driving force behind ongoing changes in the antimicrobial field. Present review providing important insights on nanobiotics, and their preparation, mechanism of action, as well as perspectives on the opportunities and challenges in nanobiotics.

THE ACQUISITION OF TEMPORALITY IN A SECOND LANGUAGE.Rainer Dietrich, Wolfgang Klein, & Colette Noyau (Eds.). Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1995. Pp. xii + 288. $59.00 cloth.

1998 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 423-424
Author(s):  
Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Multiple Target ◽  
European Science Foundation ◽  
European Science ◽  
Actual Design ◽  
Target Languages

Imagine a three-year longitudinal study of the acquisition of multiple target languages by learners of different language backgrounds. It may sound like an idealized example from a research-methods lecture, but it is the actual design of the European Science Foundation inquiry into adult second language acquisition and the latest report released by Benjamins, a substantial revision of Volume 5 of the final report on temporality (Bhardwaj, Dietrich, & Noyau, 1988). This volume reports on the acquisition of temporality in five target languages (English, German, Dutch, French, and Swedish) by 21 learners of six source languages (Punjabi, Italian, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, and Finnish) with learners from two source languages for each target language. The volume has eight chapters written by the main authors and cooperating contributors: “Introduction” (Dietrich & Perdue), “Frame of Analysis” (Klein), five chapters on the acquisition of temporality by target language—English (Klein), German (Dietrich), Dutch (Klein, Coenen, van Helvert, & Hendricks), French (Noyau, Houdaïfa, Vasseur, & Véronique), and Swedish (Noyau, Dorriots, Sjöström, & Voionmaa)—and “Conclusions” (Klein, Dietrich, & Noyau).

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