The 11th World Congress on Sarcoidosis and Other Granulomatous Disorders was held in the University of Milan in September 1987. It attracted 400 participants from 30 countries who enjoyed 96 communications and 148 poster presentations proof that research in these fascinating disorders is very much alive and kicking. The sarcoid granuloma is a battlefield between invading antigen and the cellula...

We survey probabilistic cellular automata with approaches coming from combinatorics, statistical physics, and theoretical computer science, each bringing a different viewpoint. Some of the questions studied are specific to a domain, and some others are shared, most notably the ergodicity problem.

Let me turn back to look at the past, and tell you about the history of construction of the first supersymmetric model. The papers I will shortly review have been for the most part rather inaccessible. A part of the results obtained is presented only in my Ph.D. thesis. I will also mention some lost opportunities and delusions. I graduated from the Physical Department of Moscow State University...

Cohesin gets pushed around ings of cohesin hold together sister chromatids. Armelle and colleagues now suggest that cohesin rings get pushed to their final resting places by transcription complexes. Cohesins are known to bind a heterochromatin protein at centromeres, but previous reports of cohesin localization on chromosome arms were incomplete. The authors did a comprehensive survey of four b...

The Text Encoding Initiative’s typed segment-boundary delimiter method is only one of several proposed mechanisms for handling overlap in TEI documents. HORSE (aka CLIX) defines a method by which an XML element is used normally when possible and as an improved version of the typed segment-boundary delimiter method when an overlap problem is encountered. A significant portion of the rules necess...

Die Welt des Denkens: Kognitive Einheit, kulturelle Vielfalt, may be translated as “The world of thinking: cognitive unity, cultural diversity.” It represents an impressive and much needed effort in German at bringing together insights from psychology and socio-cultural anthropology about how people around the globe perceive and order the world and how they feel and reason about the world surro...

Shop-around spatial behaviors of downtown visitors are characterized as MultiPurpose-MultiStop (MPMS). However, the authors’ investigations have revealed visitors frequently switch planned actions and generate improvised actions. By using an agent-based approach, especially with a medium-size specimen, simulating such spatial behaviors opens a rich vein of research, not only into such practical...

In this note we deal with some aspects of Apéry’s constant ζ(3).

Despite technological, interaction and co-located collaboration advances on multi-touch interactive tables there is little or no knowledge of how people communicate around these surfaces. Communication is important as it acts as a tool for human to express themselves. Through communication we are able to share information, ideas and emotions; make decisions and build relationships with people. ...

This is a personal view of some problems on minimal surfaces, Ricci flow, polyhedral geometric structures, Haken 4–manifolds, contact structures and Heegaard splittings, singular incompressible surfaces after the Hamilton–Perelman revolution. We give sets of problems based on the following themes; Minimal surfaces and hyperbolic geometry of 3–manifolds. In particular, how do minimal surfaces gi...