Department of Chemistry, Emory University 30322, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Hubei Key Laboratory of Low Dimensiona Hubei University of Arts and Science, Xiangy College of Electronic Engineering, Heilong China Department of Chemistry, The Vanderb Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashvill † Electronic supplementary information characterizations, TA set-ups, addition kinetics, tting procedur...

The Cinereous Vulture, Aegypius monachus, formerly known as the Black Vulture, is classified as near-threatened at world level (Collar et al. 1994). A. monachus is widely distributed, with a continuous range extending from Europe and North Africa through the Middle East to Mongolia and China (Appak, 1992). It has since been extirpated in most of its European range. Its only remaining stronghold...

The metaphysical assumptions of cognitive science are explored with the goal to develop a problem-centered science relevant to the design and engineering of effective products and technologies. Radical Empiricism is suggested as an ontological foundation for pursuing this goal. This ontology poses a single reality where mind and matter come together to shape experience. Peirce’s triadic semioti...

A temporal analysis of emoticon use in Swedish, Italian, German and English asynchronous electronic communication is reported. Emoticons are classified as positive, negative and neutral. Postings to newsgroups over a 66 week period are considered. The aggregate analysis of emoticon use in newsgroups for science and politics tend on the whole to be consistent over the entire time period. Where p...

Established in 1993, COSIT (COnference on Spatial Information Theory) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important scientific events in the field of spatial information theory. COSIT aims to bring together researchers from different disciplines for intensive scientific exchanges. The ninth International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2009, is especially concerned with th...

The editors of these CoSMoS Workshop Proceedings have invited us to describe the two sides of our joint approach to computer simulation of biological systems: the biological side and the computer science side. Irun Cohen, an immunologist, will voice the biological side; David Harel, a computer scientist, will voice the computer science side.

Stemming from the long tradition of biographical writing, cinema has communicated history by means of re-enactments of the lives of significant public figures through time (Landy 1996). It can be argued that film biographies or ‘biopics’ possess a more personal, graphic and emotional vividness as opposed to professional historians chronicling the subject’s life work (Tibbetts 2005). The musical...