Best Sellers --Reference Titles 2001-2002

Computational Intelligence 2001-2002

Best of the Best 2002.qxd

A ttracting professors to a program—and subsequently keeping them—has much to do with the management and teaching philosophy of the department as a whole, and the department head or chair in particular. The gap between attracting the potential professor and keeping him/her can be summed in a few sentences. The departmental philosophy as it relates to mentoring and molding the new faculty member...

Biennial Scientific Report 2001 – 2002

Contents Preface Foreword Recent highlights On the role of cirrus clouds in climate 11 Pathways in the ocean 19 Monitoring of tropical processes relevant to climate change 29 Current projects Preface • In 2001 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (ipcc) published its Third Assessment Report (tar). It was concluded that " There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming obser...

AIS President's Report: 2001-2002

Three years ago, my most recent predecessor as the President from Region One, Gordon Davis, published the first of these President’s reports in Communications of the AIS. Two years later, Michael Vitale, the most recent AIS President from Region Three, provided another. Gordon and Mike set a difficult precedent, not only by the quality of their report but, more importantly, by the many accompli...

Increase in Imported Dengue, Germany, 2001–2002

Dengue fever is a reportable disease in Germany. Surveillance data from 2001 and 2002 were analyzed and compared to travel patterns. Imported dengue fever increased strongly in this time. Most infections were acquired in Southeast Asia, specifically Thailand. The 2002 epidemic in Brazil was also reflected in these data.