Annual report 2018
Discover the impact of our networks and much more in the COST report of 2018.
Annual report 2017
Building bridges of excellence for young researchers is the title of the 2017 COST annual report. This report puts particular focus on the COST Programme as a springboard for young researchers.
Annual report 2014
The 2014 report focuses on storytelling by looking back on an exceptional and challenging year, providing a round-up of the essential steps taken by COST in developing a modern networking concept welcoming all innovative ideas across any S&T field.
Volume 58, Issue 2 Supplement, November 2019
Author Christine Morand et al
Publisher Springer Link
ISSN 1436-6207
In this journal released by Springer, the main findings of the COST Positive Network are explored in 5 articles centered around ‘Interindividual Variation in Response to Consumption of Plant Food Bioactives and Determinants Involved’.
Bioimage Data Analysis Workflows
- Editors: Miura, Kota, Sladoje, Nataša, (Eds.)
- Publisher(s): Springer
- ISBN 978-3-030-22386-1
- Open access book, downloadable for free here.
This Open Access textbook provides students and researchers in the life sciences with essential practical information on how to quantitatively analyze data images. It refrains from focusing on theory, and instead uses practical examples and step-by step protocols to familiarize readers with the most commonly used image processing and analysis platforms such as ImageJ, MatLab and Python. Besides gaining knowhow on algorithm usage, readers will learn how to create an analysis pipeline by scripting language; these skills are important in order to document reproducible image analysis workflows.
The textbook is chiefly intended for advanced undergraduates in the life sciences and biomedicine without a theoretical background in data analysis, as well as for postdocs, staff scientists and faculty members who need to perform regular quantitative analyses of microscopy images.
Flowing Matter
Editors: Federico Toschi, Marcello Sega
Publisher: Springer, Cham
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-23370-9
Open Access book available
This open access book, published in the Soft and Biological Matter series, presents an introduction to selected research topics in the broad field of flowing matter, including the dynamics of fluids with a complex internal structure -from nematic fluids to soft glasses- as well as active matter and turbulent phenomena.
Flowing matter is a subject at the crossroads between physics, mathematics, chemistry, engineering, biology and earth sciences, and relies on a multidisciplinary approach to describe the emergence of the macroscopic behaviours in a system from the coordinated dynamics of its microscopic constituents.
Depending on the microscopic interactions, an assembly of molecules or of mesoscopic particles can flow like a simple Newtonian fluid, deform elastically like a solid or behave in a complex manner. When the internal constituents are active, as for biological entities, one generally observes complex large-scale collective motions. Phenomenology is further complicated by the invariable tendency of fluids to display chaos at the large scales or when stirred strongly enough. This volume presents several research topics that address these phenomena encompassing the traditional micro-, meso-, and macro-scales descriptions, and contributes to our understanding of the fundamentals of flowing matter.
This book is the legacy of the COST Action MP1305 “Flowing Matter”.