M ost people agree that computer science will play a significant role in the global information society. But what will that role be? Analyzing the part knowledge played in the agrarian, industrial, and information societies—which correspond roughly to the past, present, and future—can help answer this question. In an agrarian society, people provide the main source of energy, in the sense that ...

Acknowledgements I would like to thank Henrik Rønnow for his supervision of this master thesis work and for introducing me to the field of quantum magnetism. My thanks also to Kruno Prsa from the LQM and Monica Jimenez from the ILL for their precious help in guiding me through my first TAS experiment. I thank also Ross Stewards and Russel Ewings from ISIS for the time they took to introduce me ...

BACKGROUND The ATP7A gene encodes the ATP7A protein, which is a trans-Golgi network copper transporter expressed in the brain and other organs. Mutations in this gene cause disorders of copper metabolism, such as Menkes disease. Here we describe the novel and unusual mutation (p.T1048I) in the ATP7A gene of a child with Menkes disease. The mutation affects a conserved DKTGT1048 phosphorylation ...

We are met here to-day, all of us friends and many of us colleagues of George Frederic Still, in testimony of our sorrow at his passing, but also in proud recollection of his work and character. This is not the time to speak of his professional achievements; it is enough to say that he was universally recognized, not only in this country but throughout the world, as a master in that branch of m...

“D and fables I fashion,” wrote 18th-century Italian poet and librettist Pietro Metastasio, “and even while I sketch elaborate fables and dreams upon paper ... I so enter into them that I weep and am offended at ills I invented” (1). Metastasio might have been describing the work of his contemporary Giambattista Tiepolo, whose art blended history, mythology, legend, and scripture in a grand man...

III I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life. It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found. cited from " A beautiful mind " IV Acknowledgement I would like to express my gratitude to Marcus Groettrup for taking me back with open arms in the lab after failure of the " French adventure " , his constant ...

Acknowledgements I would like to thank all the people helped me to make this thesis possible. First of all my thanks go to Petar Jovanovic for all the support he gave me throughout the work, and for great collaboration. Also, I am grateful to my advisor, Alberto Abelló, for believing in me, for his guidance and patience. I would also like to thank Oscar Romero for his useful advice, and all the...

In many autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) applications, a basic problem is to determine the AUV's position accurately. Terrain aided navigation, which supports the existing inertial navigation system with terrain information, is a promising method. In this thesis, the Kalman filter and the Bayesian approach implemented as point mass filter are used in terrain aided navigation. To formulate a ...