W e would like to thank Dr. Wong for the response to our article “No time to waste—the ethical challenges created by CRISPR”. Dr. Wong’s letter addresses a question about the relationship between biology and society: that “prevailing papers” on CRISPR-Cas9 rarely emphasize understanding the microbiological processes that make CRISPR-Cas9 an effective defensive mechanism. Instead, scientists and...

rain is one of the manifestations of the divine blessing for servants which plays a very important role in the life of this human being. man has paid special attention to rain since he stepped on earth. many poets have described rain, used it in their similes and composed poetry out of it. they have used rain as a symbol together with other symbols such as woman, praise, battleground and so man...

The pointcut expression (PCE) is a key mechanism in enabling Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) (Kiczales et al. 1997) to improve the localization of crosscutting concerns. PCEs quantify over well-defined points in the execution of the program called join points. A join point shadow, on the other hand, refers to base-code corresponding to a join point (Xu and Rountev 2008), i.e., a point in the ...

In this invited talk we discuss the challenges associated with composing and pricing web services. We present the results of an online experiment, where subjects were confronted with a variety of choices and decisions relating to web service markets and service composition. Our analysis shows that people expect the price of a composite web service to be lower than the sum of the prices of the e...

[1] We appreciate the commentary by Neuman [2006] and the opportunity for discussion and further clarification of our article [Ritzi et al., 2004]. In his commentary, Neuman expounds upon his derivation of a model for the permeability semivariogram [Neuman, 2003, equation (53)] and describes aquifer architecture that would be represented by such a model. As requested by the Associate Editor, ou...

the logical treatise al-muhja has been attributed to avicenna in some bibliographies of logical treatises. since a proper understanding of the development of avicennian logic rests on the identification and consideration of the entire corpus of his logical works, the task of the present study is to investigate the validity of ascription of this treatise to avicenna. in carrying out an analysis ...