It Will Be Hard to Find Honey Bees in This Issue!

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What Will It Take To Find a Human Pheromone?

In 1991, at a conference sponsored by a fragrance company called the Erox Corporation, two University of Utah scientists presented research on a tantalizing pair of chemical compounds provided by the company. They reported that in a few dozen human volunteers, the molecules androstadienone and estratetraenol activated the vomeronasal organ (VNO)an olfactory organ that senses pheromones in many...

Why Solutions Can Be Hard to Find -- A Featural Theory . . .

How Hard is it to Find (Honest) Witnesses?

In recent years much effort has been put into developing polynomial-time conditional lower bounds for algorithms and data structures in both static and dynamic settings. Along these lines we introduce a framework for proving conditional lower bounds based on the well-known 3SUM conjecture. Our framework creates a compact representation of an instance of the 3SUM problem using hashing and domain...

Will this paper ever be cited?

It is an accepted fact of academic life that some papers, in whatever discipline and wherever published, will never be cited. Empirical support for this can be found in studies such as those reported by Glanzel (1992), Rousseau (1994), and Egghe (2000) where the distribution of the time of first citation is investigated. In all cases, it is assumed that never-citation is connected with the perc...