Many recent creationists are attracted to plasma astronomy, the idea that electromagnetic effects rather than gravity are responsible for much of the structure of the universe. I examine the claims of at least one proponent of plasma astronomy, Donald E. Scott. Scott has written a book that discusses many aspects of plasma astronomy. This book appears to be the most concise treatment of plasma ...

A new algorithm is proposed for the construction of BrezingWeng-like elliptic curves such that polynomials defining the CM discriminant are linear. Using this construction, new families of curves with variable discriminants and embedding degrees of k ∈ {8, 16, 20, 24}, which were not covered by Freeman, Scott, and Teske [9], are presented. Our result is useful for constructing elliptic curves w...

U bicomp researchers have long argued that privacy is a design issue,1 and it goes without saying that successful design requires that we understand the desires, concerns, and awareness of the technology’s users. Yet, because ubicomp systems are relatively unusual, too little empirical research exists to inform designers about potential users. Complicating design further is the fact that ubicom...

Reexamination of the type material of Squilla? kiowana Scott, 1970 and study of additional specimens of the same taxon indicates that it is a mecochirid decapod referable to a new genus, Huhatanka. This assignment brings to five the number of North American species referable to the Mecochiridae.

Towards the end of January 2003, the president of the government, José María Aznar, had a meeting with Scott McNealy, the managing director of Sun Microsystems. At the meeting they established the basis of an agreement under which the technology company would cede 9 million licences for the office computer package StarOffice to Ministry of Education users. The operation is valued at some 725 mi...

Solitons or solitary waves are large-amplitude excitations with finite spatial widths 15 which are found in certain nonlinear systems and which can propagate over long distances without changing their shapes. Solitary waves also have the property that, although they may interact strongly with other solitary waves, they emerge from the interaction intact. The first report of the observation of a...

An abstract notion of category of information systems or I-category is introduced as a generalisation of Scott's well-known category of information systems. As in the theory of partial orders, I-categories can be complete or !-algebraic, and it is shown that !-algebraic I-categories can be obtained from a certain completion of countable I-categories. The proposed axioms for a complete I-categor...

This research sought to investigate the validity of Rokeach's two-dimensional model of political ideology. In two separate studies, samples of Australian adults and university students were asked to complete the Social Values Inventory, a newly derived instrument designed to provide a more detailed coverage of the political ideology domain. Factor analyses of each set of data revealed a basic t...

Problem 5.53 of [18] (contributed by Wiegold, attributed to Scott) asks whether a free product of three (finite) cyclic groups can be normally generated by a single element. We give a proof of the conjectured negative answer, and an application to Dehn surgery on knots: if Dehn surgery on a knot in S3 gives a connected sum, then all but at most 2 of the connected summands are Z-homology spheres...