Searching the chemical literature (Gould, Robert F.)

Editor: Robert F. Klie

On the Cover (from left to right): 1. SEM images of Ni nanoflower growth. (see F. Lagunas el al., page 57); 2. The trigger board experiment before being placed in the magnet. There is the trigger board, telescope board, test board, and ROCs.(see E. Stachura et al., page 48); 3. Scanning fluorescence phase microscope images of copper nanofiber mat(see Chan et al., page 43).

Robert F. Coleman 1954–2014

1 Biography Robert F. Coleman, an extraordinarily original and creative mathematician who has had a profound influence on modern number theory and arithmetic geometry, died of a sudden heart attack in El Cerrito, CA, on the morning of March 24, 2014. He is survived by his wife Tessa, his sister Rosalind, and brother Mark, his nephew Jeffrey, and niece Elise, and his service dog Julep. The depth...

Searching the medical literature.

Searching the medical literature.

Medical literature searches have become more complex because of the increasing amount of published material and the multiple available databases indexing those publications. Although newly graduated physicians may have received some training in literature searching as part of a medical school curriculum, most clinicians have received no formal training in this skill. In today's world of evidenc...

Stochastic Permanent Breaks by Robert F . Engle

1 This paper aims to bridge the gap between processes where shocks are permanent and those with transitory shocks by formulating a process in which the long run impact of each innovation is time varying and stochastic. Frequent transitory shocks are supplemented by occasional permanent shifts. The stochastic permanent breaks (STOPBREAK) process is based on the premise that a shock is more likel...