Extended Abstract In this talk I shall explore what kind of knowledge can be obtained from computer simulations and the sense in which that knowledge is different from what can be gained from traditional experiments on the one hand and from traditional theoretical work on the other. Some recent literature has suggested that the more similar the experimental subjects are to the target systems, t...

Temporal moments have been used in engineering mechanics to condense the information contained in the shock response spectrum into a few scalar quantities. This paper presents an application of temporal moments to the propagation of an explosivedriven shock wave through an assembly of metallic parts. For this particular application, it is shown that temporal moments characterize the response of...

The loss of allograft function in the long term (whatever its pattern over time) not only remains the single major cause of death following lung transplantation but has continued largely unabated since the beginning of the modern era in the 1980s [1–3]. As obliterative bronchiolitis (OB) was the most common histopathological finding on biopsy of the failing lung allograft, this feature became t...

Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología throught grant SEC2001-0674 for financial support.

We explore the issues involved in converting graph data stored in GXL or GraphML into each other. It turns out that XSLT provides a simple, portable, and effective mechanism for format conversion in either direction. As a by-product, some subtle differences between the formats become apparent.

We are continuously being bombarded by a myriad of diverse sensory stimuli. Recollections from our past and reflections upon our future add to this cacophony and we need to select among the vast array of stimuli to which we are exposed and approach what is useful to meet our appetitive needs and withdraw from what is harmful so we avoid situations of threat or danger. The successful negotiation...

One of the most important functions of cognitive control is to continuously adapt cognitive processes to changing and often conflicting demands of the environment. Dopamine (DA) has been suggested to play a key role in the signaling and resolution of such response conflict. Given that DA is found in high concentration in the retina, color vision discrimination has been suggested as an index of ...

561 Plague On Us can not but make for humility, for it shows us that when accounts are balanced there seems, despite all those things which we believe medical science has accomplished, to be a deficit of major proportions. "We have not rid the world entirely of any single infection known to man, and some we have not yet begun to fight. As for the premises for action, we do not yet know why one ...

Schizophrenia epidemiology can provide us with valuable information to guide research directions. However, while epidemiology is useful for generating candidate risk factors, it can not always deliver studies that prove causality. We argue that the field needs more translational research that links schizophrenia epidemiology with molecular, cellular, and behavioral neuroscience. Cross-disciplin...