Background: Little is known about the factors that drive the association between point-of-sale marketing and behavior, because methods that directly link individual-level use outcomes to real-world point-of-sale exposure are only now beginning to be developed. Purpose: Daily outcomes during smoking cessation were examined as a function of both real-time geospatial exposure to point-of-sale tobacco (POST) and subjective craving to smoke. Methods: Continuous individual geospatial location data...

Documentation of the seminar on "Fostering Partnership Between Government and Academe in the Pursuit of Renewable Energy Development" by Hon. Mario Marasigan, OIC Director IV, Renewable Energy Management Bureau, Department of Energy on July 24, 2013 at CEM ICOPED Auditorium, UPLB, College, Laguna. This seminar is part of CEM's 35th Foundation Day Celebrations this July 2013, with the theme “Building Business-Academe Partnerships in Entrepreneurship Towards a Vibrant Economy and...

Documentation of the seminar on "Responsively Soluble Polymers as Tools in Green Chemistry" by Dr. David E. Bergbreiter, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University at the Physical Sciences Building A-102, College of Arts and Sciences, UPLB, College, Laguna on July 22, 2013

Background: Walk Scores and Transit Scores are open-source measures of the neighborhood built environment to support walking (“walkability”) and access to transportation. Purpose: To investigate associations of Street Smart Walk Score and Transit Score with selfreported transport and leisure walking using data from a large multicity and diverse populationbased sample of adults. Methods: Data from a sample of 4552 residents of Baltimore MD, Chicago IL, Forsyth County NC, Los Angeles...

Tom Gilbert of the Natural History Museum of Denmark on "Biodiversity monitoring using NGS approaches on unusual substrates" at the 8th Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting in Walnut Creek, Calif.

Richard Cogdell is the Director of the Institute for Molecular Cell and Systems Biology at the University of Glasglow, Scotland. Richard was led to a career in studying bacterial photosynthesis by a desire to learn and understand basic photosynthesis, he "wanted to know how natured worked." In 1995, Richard's research group, in collaboration with others, used protein crystallography to determine the three dimensional structure of a light-harvesting complex from the purple bacterium,...