Astrocytes are multifunctional glial cells that are essential for brain functioning.Most existing methods to induce astrocytes from stem cells are inefficient, requiring couples of weeks.Here, we designed an alginate hydrogel-based method to realize high-efficiency astrocytic differentiation from human neural stem cells.Comparing to the conventiona
Discrete-choice life cycle models of labor supply can be used to estimate how social security reforms influence employment rate.In a life cycle model, optimal employment choices during the life course of an individual must be solved.Mostly, life cycle models have been solved with dynamic programming, which is not feasible when the state space is la
Abstract We introduce a class of Hair Set 4-dimensional crystal melting models that count the BPS bound state of branes on toric Calabi-Yau 4-folds.The crystalline structure is determined by the brane brick model associated to the Calabi-Yau 4-fold under consideration or, equivalently, its dual periodic quiver.The crystals provide a discretized ver
On apple tree leaves, the most abundant predatory phytoseiid species were Euseius finlandicus (Oudemans), comprising 39% of specimens found in surveys in 1985 and 1989, Phyloseius macropilis (Banks), 32%, and Paraseiulus Radios soleiger (Ribaga), 18%.Amblyseius subsotidus (Beglyarov) and A.reductus Wainstein occurred occasionally in relatively high
A procedure to select the controlling factors connected to the slope instability has been defined.It allowed us to assess the landslide susceptibility in the Rio Beiro basin (about 10 km<sup>2</sup>) over the northeastern area of the city of Granada (Spain).Field and remote (Google EarthTM) recognition techniques allowed us to generate