Books are media for information communication. A nice book design can not only give prominence to the content of book but also construct a rich aesthetic space for readers by its special art language. Therefore, book design should emphasize both exterior beauty and interior beauty. Besides, it should pay attention on the organic unity of book content and book design. Put it in simple, the gener...

I believe it would be in accordance with the wishes of our mourned colleague if I developed here the idea set forth in my book Chemical dynamics of life ph~enomena, and add to it from more recent work. At the wish of Jacques Loeb, this book was published as one of his series of monographs (1). These studies confirm the unity of chemical processes throughout the organic world, a unity which Loeb...

Elucidating the photophysical mechanisms in sulfur-substituted nucleobases (thiobases) is essential for designing prospective drugs for photo- and chemotherapeutic applications. Although it has long been established that the phototherapeutic activity of thiobases is intimately linked to efficient intersystem crossing into reactive triplet states, the molecular factors underlying this efficiency...

UNITY is a simple programming logic to reason about distributed systems. It is especially attractive because of its elegant axiomatical style. Since its power is limited, people introduce variants to extends it with various new functionalities. However, in the axiomatical style it is easy to make a mistake: a seemingly very logical new inference rule may turn out to be unsound. Formal verificat...

We define theta functions attached to indefinite quadratic forms over real number fields and prove that these theta functions are Hilbert modular forms by regarding them as specializations of symplectic theta functions. The eighth root of unity which arises under modular transformations is determined explicitly.