I give a brief overview of the resolution of the apparent problem of reconciling time symmetric microscopic dynamic with time asymmetric equations describing the evolution of macroscopic variables. I then show how the large deviation function of the stationary state of the microscopic system can be used as a Lyapunov function for the macroscopic evolution equations. —————————————————————————— G...

We present a prototypical system with a purely linguistic method to analyse organic chemical compound names. It morpho-semantically analyses compound names, generates line-based, machinereadable representations of their corresponding molecular structures (SMILES strings), and triggers a taxonomic classification. CHEMorph is to be used to support manual database curation and as a basis for bioch...

Many scholars turn to emotions to understand irrational behavior. We do the opposite: we turn to rationality and game theory to understand people’s emotions. We discuss a striking theory of emotions that began with the game theory of credible threats and promises, then was enriched by evolutionary biology and psychology, and now is being tested in psychological experiments. We review some of th...

The nonlinearity of SIS mixers is a critical issue for several new instruments which aim for high accuracy. One of them is the submillimeter wave limb emission sounder JEM/SMILES which will observe the spectral transition lines of various stratospheric trace gases. In this paper we present a perturbation technique which was used to determine the nonlinearity of its 640 SIS mixer. The measuremen...

In silico screening methods based on the 3D structures of the ligands or of the proteins have become an essential tool to facilitate the drug discovery process. To achieve such process, the 3D structures of the small chemical compounds have to be generated. In addition, for ligand-based screening computations or hierarchical structure-based screening projects involving a rigid-body docking step...

⁎ Corresponding author. Department of Developmenta Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipz E-mail address: [email protected] (R. Song). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2016.05.002 1090-5138/© 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Article history: Initial receipt 17 July 2015 Final revision received 11 May 2016

CORAL (CORrelation And Logic) software can be used to build up the quantitative structure--property/activity relationships (QSPR/QSAR) with optimal descriptors calculated with the simplified molecular input line entry system (SMILES). We used CORAL to evaluate the applicability domain of the QSAR models, taking a model of bioconcentration factor (logBCF) as example. This model's based on a larg...

In this paper we propose a novel semantic label transfer method using supervised geodesic propagation (SGP). We use supervised learning to guide the seed selection and the label propagation. Given an input image, we first retrieve its similar image set from annotated databases. A Joint Boost model is learned on the similar image set of the input image. Then the recognition proposal map of the i...

The Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) has come in for severe criticism recently and has even been labelled "stupid" by the supposed guardian of its provisions, President of the European Commission Romano Prodi. A member of possible refinements have been proposed by several governments notably those of France and the United Kingdom as well as by many academic economists. Since most of these propos...

The need for faster methods of data entry is undeniable. Unfortunately, little has been done since Dvorak’s efforts in 1935 to improve the method of data entry into these machines. Therefore, new and improved keyboard layouts must be developed to make data entry more efficient. To aid in this task, evolutionary techniques were utilized to create a system capable of quickly creating optimized ke...