Dick Fitzgerald – A Revolutionary Like No Other

No Other Way Out STATES AND REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS , 1945 – 1991

Supercritical carbon dioxide: a solvent like no other

Supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2) could be one aspect of a significant and necessary movement towards green chemistry, being a potential replacement for volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Unfortunately, carbon dioxide has a notoriously poor solubilising power and is famously difficult to handle. This review examines attempts and breakthroughs in enhancing the physicochemical properties of ca...

A real Lorentz-FitzGerald contraction

Many condensed matter systems are such that their collective excitations at low energies can be described by fields satisfying equations of motion formally indistinguishable from those of relativistic field theory. The finite speed of propagation of the disturbances in the effective fields (in the simplest models, the speed of sound) plays here the role of the speed of light in fundamental phys...

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0 7 4 0 7 4 5 9 / 9 9 / $ 1 0 . 0 0 © 1 9 9 9 I E E E M a y / J u n e 1 9 9 9 I E E E S o f t w a r e 3 7 iven the extent to which software underpins all our everyday activities, software development has become a critical issue for modern organizations, and indeed for all of society. The “software crisis,” a term first coined more than 30 years ago, continues unabated, however— software still t...

Dick Byrne

Dick Byrne is Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. He studies the evolution of cognition, and has investigated a wide range of animal capacities — vocal and gestural communication, deception, social comprehension, mental mapping, causal knowledge and the acquisition of novel manual skills. After training in cognitive psychology, he turned to primate f...