Hope Progressing?

Hope against Hope

In the penultimate chapter of the Bible, in the opening statement of the very last speech God makes in the whole of the Christian Scriptures, God says: "Behold I am making all things new" (Rev 21:5). The prophet sees the old heavens and the old earth the universe as it now is passing away, and new heavens and a new earth, God's new creation of all things, coming into being. It is not that God r...

"Hope, Danger's Comforter": Thucydides, Hope, Politics

Regenerative Medicine: Progressing Toward Cures

What an exciting year in stem cell science and translational medicine! STEM CELLS Translational Medicine (SCTM) and its sister journal, STEM CELLS (www.Stemcells.Com, @StemCellsJournal), with its focus on a better understanding of stem cell function, continued to publish remarkable, groundbreaking findings that are moving the field forward. And, in the regulatory arena, the U.S. Food and Drug A...

CCS Dynamic Bisimulation is Progressing

Weak Observational Congruence (woc) defined on CCS agents is not a bisimulation since it does not require two states reached by bisimilar computations of woc agents to be still woc, e.g. α.τ.β.nil and α.β.nil are woc but τ.β.nil and β.nil are not. This fact prevents us from characterizing CCS semantics (when τ is considered invisible) as a final algebra, since the semantic function would induce...

OPS3: Progressing Toward Environmental Results

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