From Munn-Pitt to Library Act

052-058 Pitt

Introduction and background Aflatoxins are a hazard in foods because they are potent carcinogens, capable of causing cancer in nearly all animal species studied. Aflatoxins are also acute, chronic and genotoxic poisons (1). In addition, recent evidence suggests strongly that aflatoxins can be immunosuppressive (2). The primary sources of aflatoxins are the common fungi Aspergillus flavus and th...

Puzzling Peptides from a Phage Display Library

The commercial availability of random peptide libraries displayed on the M13 phage is increasing their use forstudies on epitope identification, enzyme inhibitors, receptor ligands, etc. In this study two experimentswhere planned for selection of peptides. First with sheep antibodies, the positive selector was IgG, preparedon Protein G column from a pool of 11 sheeps immunized...

The Wiener-Pitt tauberian theorem

PITT PACC Rapid-Response Workshop

TBD Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS): Thoughts on Particle Dark Matter

A Communicative Act Library in the context of Artificial Institutions*

In this paper we propose a model of agents’ institutional reality that makes us able to define the semantics of a set of communicative acts suitable for agent communication. Taking inspiration from Searle’s studies on the construction of social reality, we introduce our notion of Artificial Institution consisting of: an ontology of the concepts defined by the institution, a set of authorization...