R&M 2000: Cutting the Tether

Position paper RM 2000 - 1 - Experiences with CORBA interceptors

CORBA offers a limited form of behavioral reflection through the so-called interceptors. The OMG is improving the current interceptor specification, i.e. make it less ambiguous and thus more portable, and extending it, i.e. by defining new interception points, through the Portable Interceptor RFP. In this paper we shortly describe our experiences with the current (CORBA 2.2) interceptors, and w...

Topological superconductor in quasi-one-dimensional ${\rm Tl}_{2-x}{\rm Mo}_6{\rm Se}_6$

Structures in the RM sky

Coherent structures in the distribution of the Faraday rotation measure of extragalac-tic radio sources are isolated using wavelet transformation technique. A new algorithm of wavelet analysis for data points nonuniformly distributed on a sphere is developed and implemented. Signatures of the magnetic fields in the local (Orion) spiral arm, the Sagittarius and Carina arms, the synchrotron Loop ...

Identifying an Honest ${\rm EXP}^{\rm NP}$ Oracle Among Many

We provide a general framework to remove short advice by formulating the following computational task for a function f : given two oracles at least one of which is honest (i.e. correctly computes f on all inputs) as well as an input, the task is to compute f on the input with the help of the oracles by a probabilistic polynomial-time machine, which we shall call a selector. We characterize the ...

Tether before synapse

Tether before synapse C hemokines are captured on the surface of dendritic cells in lymph nodes, and they in turn capture T cells, say Rachel Friedman, Jordan Jacobelli, and Matthew Krummel (University of California, San Francisco, CA). The tethered T cells continue to search for a site worthy of a full immunological synapse, which they can form with either the same or another antigen-presentin...