We report on the specification and analysis of VICE, a hypothetical cell with a genome as basic as possible. We used an enhanced version of the π-calculus and a prototype running it to study the behaviour of VICE. The results of our experimentation in silico confirm that our virtual cell “survives” in an optimal environment and shows a behaviour similar to that of real prokaryotes.

Father Hesburgh opened his second day back on campus yesterday by ho ld ing a three hour meeting w ith student leaders in w h ich he attem pted to get some idea o f the issues that they are concerned w ith th is year. O ut o f the m eeting came the fact tha t he fe lt tha t he was on a “ year to yea r" basis w ith the Board o f Trustees and tha t he w ou ld step dow n as U n ivers ity President...

T o what extent do the institutions of presidentialism allow voters to hold governments accountable? Powell and Whitten (1993) suggested that voter capacity to sanction is strong when “clarity of government responsibility” for outcomes is clear, and vice versa. I argue that clarity of responsibility functions differently under presidentialism and that presidentialism generates particular forms ...

Representation and progression among women with advanced degrees in science and medicine have significantly improved over the past 50 years. A recent report from the Association of American Medical Colleges indicates that despite women being in the minority, the number of female division/section chiefs, department chairs, and deans has increased overall by more than 50% in the past 10 years (ht...

The Sixty-first Annual meeting of The Wilson Ornithological Society, and the third jointly with The Cooper Ornithological Society, was held Wednesday, 19 March to Sunday, 23 March 1980, at the La Quinta Royale Motor Inn, Corpus Christi, Texas. The hosts for the meeting were Corpus Christi State University and the Coastal Bend Audubon Society. Dr. Brian R. Chapman chaired the local arrangements ...

My dear colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, I consider it a great privilege and pleasure to address you this morning as the next President of Indian Psychiatric Society. I am most grateful to the fellowship of the society for bestowing their trust and confidence in me and having elected me to the highest position in the profession at the national level, wihch had been a cherished dream for me. I ...

Many important studies associate the presidential profile of Dilma Rousseff to loss domestic density and reach Brazil’s foreign policy, a perspective not yet confirmed by psychological mechanisms leadership behavior in policy. We offer contribution exploring Leadership Trait Analysis framework with which personality concepts comparisons between Brazilian presidents are examined. Our main findin...

OBJECTIVE Are there key attributes of leaders? Extrovert versus introvert? Charismatic? Detail oriented? Visionary? How do past leaders of the Medical Library Association (MLA) stack up? What leadership skills will MLA's leaders need in a complex information future? Leadership attributes of MLA's past and current presidents were studied to determine the common characteristics shared among these...