Best of Chemistry Views 7‐8/2023

Nature Chemistry | News and Views

One never forgets the sheer excitement of an infant's first hesitant steps; the clumsy but undaunted efforts that you know will soon develop to the confident strides that will enable entry to the 'real world'. It is hard to avoid similar thoughts when one looks at the steps currently taken to achieve movement at the nanoscale. In a nano-world where thermal Brownian motion rules, finding movemen...

Best Effort Query Answering for Mediators with Union Views

Balancing a Child’s Best Interests and a Child’s Views

We consider the problem of reconciling the two commitments to hear a child and to promote a child’s best interests by identifying the principal issues at stake and illustrating them by reference to legal decision-making in the domains of health in the United Kingdom and custody and child protection in Norway. We agree that a child’s views are not authoritative but dispute Harry Brighouse’s clai...

Diamonds are a chemist's best friend: diamondoid chemistry beyond adamantane.

Marilyn Monroe knew that "diamonds are a girl's best friend" but, in the meantime, many chemists have realized that they are also extremely attractive objects in contemporary chemistry. The chemist's diamonds are usually quite small (herein: nanometer-sized "diamondoids") and as a result of their unique structure are unusual chemical building blocks. Since lower diamondoids (up to triamantane) ...

Semantics-Driven Approach for Automatic Selection of Best Views of 3D Shapes

We introduce a new framework for the automatic selection of the best views of 3D models. The approach is based on the assumption that models belonging to the same class of shapes share the same salient features that discriminate them from the models of other classes. The main issue is learning these features. We propose a datadriven approach where the best view selection problem is formulated a...