The Benefits and Harms of Existence and Non-existence: Guest Editor’s Introduction

existence and approximate $l^{p}$ and continuous solution of nonlinear integral equations of the hammerstein and volterra types

بسیاری از پدیده ها در جهان ما اساساً غیرخطی هستند، و توسط معادلات غیرخطی ‎‏بیان شد‎‎‏ه اند. از آنجا که ظهور کامپیوترهای رقمی با عملکرد بالا، حل مسایل خطی را آسان تر می کند. با این حال، به طور کلی به دست آوردن جوابهای دقیق از مسایل غیرخطی دشوار است. روش عددی، به طور کلی محاسبه پیچیده مسایل غیرخطی را اداره می کند. با این حال، دادن نقاط به یک منحنی و به دست آوردن منحنی کامل که اغلب پرهزینه و ...

Benefits and Applications of Cross-Pollination - Guest Editors' Introduction

0 7 4 0 7 4 5 9 / 0 0 / $ 1 0 . 0 0 © 2 0 0 0 I E E E The speed of this evolution is both a challenge and a risk. It’s wonderful to see so many new and never imagined applications, but three decades after the discipline’s emergence, our society heavily depends on software technology. The public and the discipline’s practitioners dramatically underestimated a software product’s lifetime. For exa...

Creation Ethics and the harms of existence.

David DeGrazia’s Creation Ethics is a fascinating effort to present a consistent account of creation in many contexts— from reproduction, to self-creation through genetic enhancement, to the creation of entire future generations. For reasons of space, this comment addresses the related discussions of bearing children in wrongful life cases (chapter 5) and bearing children with disadvantages (ch...

Healthcare [Guest editors' introduction]

W e’re moving closer to realizing pervasive computing devices that can monitor our health status, both individually and as a community. Imagine what doctors could do with ECG data collected on a more regular basis, as people carry on their daily activities. The ability to monitor day-to-day heart data would profoundly affect how the medical community tracks our individual health status. Likewis...

Focus: Guest Editors’ Introduction