The Game of Life cellular automaton is a classical example of a massively parallel collision-based computing device. The automaton exhibits mobile patterns, gliders, and generators of the mobile patterns, glider guns, in its evolution. We show how to construct basic logical operations, AND, OR, NOT in space-time configurations of the cellular automaton. Also decomposition of complicated Boolean...

iV whom the duties of Statutory Supervision under the Mental ^enciency Acts were being carried on for the London County Council, and this work gave her an intimate knowledge of the needs of mentally handicapped children and the value of Occupation Centres. In 1932 she came to the Central Association for Mental Welfare to fill the post of Case Secretary. Later she became Education Secretary when...

Chris Leeder is a Doctoral Student, Karen Markey is a Professor, and Elizabeth Yakel is a Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]. The researchers wish to thank the members of the BiblioBouts team: Victor Rosenberg, Beth St. Jean, Fritz Swanson, Brian Jennings, Greg Peters, Andrew Calvetti, and three unive...

Professor W.C.S. Smith welcomed all participants and stressed the importance of this workshop in getting national programmes and reference laboratories to come together to collaborate in setting up a sentinel surveillance system to monitor drug resistance in leprosy. The Vice-Minister of Health in Viet Nam, Dr. Nguyen Thi Xuyen, in her opening address welcomed the participants and thanked WHO f...

Robert Sweet Biophysicist, BNL Biology Department, Upton NY 11973, 631-344-3401, [email protected] Wayne Hendrickson University Professor, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, 212-305-3456, [email protected] Mark Chance Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH 44106, 216-368-4406, [email protected] Lonny Berman Physicist, National Synchrotron Light Source, Upton ...

The key finding is that Standard Setting Organizations (SSOs) choose effi cient technology standards because voting power and market power have counterbalancing effects. Agents on the long side of the market have less added value in the marketplace but more voting power in cooperative organizations and conversely for the short side of the market. In a two-stage model, industry members choose te...

‘Πάντα ῥεῖ’—‘everything flows’ A saying in Ancient Greek, attributed to the philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus, states ‘τὰ πάντα ῥεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει’. It may be translated ‘everything flows, and nothing stays’. Late 2020, a few months after passing Prof. Dr. Jean-Claude Dousse, we published an editorial commemorate his scientific carrier. In this short summary,1 anticipated launch special issue ...

Acknowledgments Nobody can write a thesis without help form others, and it is usually impossible to express one's gratitude for this immense amount of help. The least I can do is to devote the rst pages of my thesis to all these wonderful people, and thank them all for their precious support and individual help. I want to mention some people explicitly, even knowing that my list must be inclomp...

Title of Document: MAKING SENSE OF BROKEN WINDOWS: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERCEPTIONS OF DISORDER, FEAR OF CRIME, COLLECTIVE EFFICACY AND PERCEPTIONS OF CRIME Joshua Conard Hinkle, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Directed By: Professor David Weisburd Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice The broken windows thesis has had a profound impact on policing strategies around the world. The thesi...

Reviewing board, the Scientific Committee of Syndifrais Jean Louis Bresson (Hôpital des enfants malades, Paris), Nadine Cerf-Bensussan (Hôpital Necker, Paris), Jean Fioramonti (INRA, Toulouse), Robert Ducluzeau (Directeur de recherche INRA), Jean-Marie Eustache (MLC), Irene Lenoir-Wijnkoop (Danone Vitapole), Laure Jolly (Affaires scientifiques et réglementaires, Nestlé France), Brigitte Roussea...