Risk Socity: Towards a New Modernity (Book Review)

Book Introduction: “Understanding Youth in Late Modernity

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Book Review | New Books

Background: The need for fast and accurate scoring functions has been driven by the increased use of in silico virtual screening twinned with high-throughput screening as a method to rapidly identify potential candidates in the early stages of drug development. We examine the ability of some the most common scoring functions (GOLD, ChemScore, DOCK, PMF, BLEEP and Consensus) to discriminate corr...

THE NEW PALGRAVE: FINANCE A Book Review

The New Palgrave: Finance (W.W. Norton, New York, 1989) reprints a selection of entries from the The New Palgrave, A Dictionary of Economics, edited by John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, and Peter Newman. This is one of several such volumes serving readers in different areas of economics. For this volume, the editors have chosen 30 essays and added a general preface for the series as well as a speci...

Book Review: The New Sovereignty

Book Review: A New Kind of Science

“Somebody says, ‘You know, you people always say that space is continuous. How do you know when you get to a small enough dimension that there really are enough points in between, that it isn’t just a lot of dots separated by little distances?’ Or they say, ‘You know those quantum mechanical amplitudes you told me about, they’re so complicated and absurd, what makes you think those are right? M...

Book Review: Creating Spatial Information Infrastructures: Towards

This book, Creating Spatial Infor mation Infrastructures: Towards the Spatial Semantic W eb, contains a collection of articles ar ound the theme of the semantic aspects of Spatial Infor mation Infrastructures (SIIs). SIIs ar e an extension to the mor e commonly ter med Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs), with the addition of the semantic aspects that turn data into information. The book has it...