Landauer’s principle claims that “Information is Physical.” It is not surprising that its conceptual antithesis, Wheeler’s “It from Bit,” has been more popular among computer scientists — in the form of the Church-Turing hypothesis: All natural processes can be computed by a universal Turing machine; physical laws then become descriptions of subsets of observable, as opposed to merely possible,...

Filamentous bacteriophage, long and thin filaments that are secreted from the host cells without killing them, have been an antithesis to the standard view of head-and-tail bacterial killing machines. Episomally replicating filamentous phage Ff of Escherichia coli provide the majority of information about the principles and mechanisms of filamentous phage infection, episomal replication and ass...

We use the cluster variation method (CVM) to investigate the phase structure of the 3d gonihedric Ising actions deened by Savvidy and Wegner. The geometrical spin cluster boundaries in these systems serve as models for the string worldsheets of the gonihedric string embedded in Z 3. The models are interesting from the statistical mechanical point of view because they have a vanishing bare surfa...

THE REDUCTION in metabolic rate effected by hypothermia constitutes the central tenet of traditional organ preservation. The antithesis of this approach is to provide for metabolic demand during normothermic preservation. This latter strategy has two potential benefits. First, if metabolic requirements are met during preservation, then longer preservation with better posttransplant function may...

Evolutionary branching points are a paradigmatic feature of adaptive dynamics, because they are potential starting points for adaptive diversification. The antithesis to evolutionary branching points are continuously stable strategies (CSS's), which are convergent stable and evolutionarily stable equilibrium points of the adaptive dynamics and hence are thought to represent endpoints of adaptiv...

Agile software development methods have emerged in recent years and have become increasingly popular since the start of the century. While much research claims to study agile methods, the meaning of agility itself in software development is yet to be fully understood. Agility is viewed by some as the antithesis of plan, structure discipline and bureaucracy. This study aims to develop a better u...

The global Internet has emerged to become an integral part of everyday life. Internet is now as fundamental a part of the infrastructure as is the telephone system or the road network. Peer-toPeer (P2P) is the logical antithesis of the Client-Server (CS) paradigm that has been the ostensible predominant paradigm for IP-based networks since their inception. Current research indicates that P2P ap...

We observe an ever growing need for integration in today’s research agendas across a variety of organisations. The proliferation of ontologies and other similar knowledge-rich and labour-intensive structures as well as their exposure to a distributed environment like the Web, and eventually its successor, the Semantic Web, justifies the need. Although a plethora of solutions have been proposed ...

As the Hispanic world well knows, the word in Spanish for advertising is ‘propaganda’, its meaning derived literally from the propagation of the faith, the antithesis of science’s Enlightenment ideals. The old word somehow seems perfect for describing the new world of drug promotion and its growing use of the famous face. Like the catholic cardinals of the 17th century, many of the feted celebr...

We use the cluster variation method (CVM) to investigate the phase structure of the 3d gonihedric Ising actions defined by Savvidy and Wegner. The geometrical spin cluster boundaries in these systems serve as models for the string worldsheets of the gonihedric string embedded in Z 3. The models are interesting from the statistical mechanical point of view because they have a vanishing bare surf...