Invitation aux Voyages

Peyton Rous and his voyages of discovery.

HMF-GUT2016 & GITAU2016 Invitation

The 2016 Great Wall International Translational Andrology and Urology Forum, and Huaxia Medical ForumGenitourinary Tumor (HMF-GUT2016 & GITAU2016) will be held at Tianjin Convention Center, Tianjin, China, April 15–17, 2016. Please visit the meeting website (http:// www.gua-hmf2016.com) for more information. HMF-GUT2016 & GITAU2016 is organized by China International Exchange and Promotive Asso...

Meaning Negotiation: an invitation

The development of distributed applications over large networks of computers raises the issue of semantic heterogeneity between autonomously developed sources of information or service providers. If, on the one hand, it is generally recognized that we need a semantic layer to provide more and more complex services, on the other hand it is clear that such a layer requires the ability to “bridge”...

Health, Medicine, and the Sea: Australian Voyages, c.1815-1860

Military men, as histories of the Royal Navy in particular have shown, tend to be interested in controlling sanitary conditions. Among seamen, maintaining health was always essential otherwise ships could not remain at sea. The main theme of Dr. Katherine Foxhall’s interesting book is voyages to Australia. On these voyages the internal environment of the vessel was the same, whether those on bo...

Invitation to operadic dynamics

Based on the Gerstenhaber Theory it is clarified how operadic dynamics may be introduced. Operadic observables satisfy the Gerstenhaber algebra identities and their time evolution is governed by the Gerstenhaber-Lax or Gerstenhaber-Heisenberg equation. In this way one can describe classical and quantum time evolution of operations. The notion of an operadic Lax pair is introduced as well.