Collaboration with the first world can be fruitful

A fruitful and gratifying collaboration.

Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish.

Because the size of the thymus in children is much larger than in adults, thymus output is widely believed to be responsible for the development of the peripheral T-cell pool during childhood. This idea is strengthened by the associations between age and the rate of T-cell reconstitution in lymphopenic patients,1 and between thymus involution and decreasing naive T-cell numbers per microliter o...

Biocosmology and Biology Their Fruitful Collaboration

Biocosmology is based on the principle that the laws of the biological microcosm mimic the laws of the macrocosm. A number of observations show that rules governing the complexity of living beings, i.e. the principles of juxtaposition and integration leading to mosaic structures, can be found in several other fields involving complexity: memory, consciousness, language, drawing, music, technica...

Can the world be shown to be indeterministic after all?

This essay considers and evaluates recent results and arguments from classical chaotic systems theory and non-relativistic quantum mechanics that pertain to the question of whether our world is deterministic or indeterministic. While the classical results are inconclusive, quantum mechanics is often assumed to establish indeterminism insofar as the measurement process involves an ineliminable s...

First Come , First Served ' can be unstable !

We consider exible manufacturing systems using thèFirst Come, First Served' (FCFS or FIFO) scheduling policy at each machine. We describe and discuss in some detail simple deterministic examples which have adequate capacity but which, under FCFS, can exhibit instability: unboundedly growing WIP taking the form of a repeated pattern of behavior with the repetitions on an increasing scale.