In his New Science,1 Giambattista Vico provided us with four axioms, which if followed, could help prevent us from falsifying our knowledge of history and our understanding of ourselves.2 Although all four axioms are relevant, the last two-"the conceit of nations" and "the conceit of scholars"-are particularly important as reminders to American legal scholars who all too often fall prey to the ...

MOTIVATION Single cell time-lapse microscopy is a powerful method for investigating heterogeneous cell behavior. Advances in microfluidic lab-on-a-chip technologies and live-cell imaging render the parallel observation of the development of individual cells in hundreds of populations possible. While image analysis tools are available for cell detection and tracking, biologists are still confron...

A visual environment for object-oriented simulation of queuing networks is developed. A key design objective is to minimize the amount of programming required from the modeler while maintaining the full modeling power of a custom-made simulator for the queuing network application domain. The environment structure is based on a recently developed standard for the design of simulation environment...

maharlou-bakhtegan catchment in the southern part of iran is faced with water scarcity.this problem is exacerbated by environmental degradation, climate change effects, mismanagementof water resources, along with a major dependence of water demand supplies on the limitedgroundwater resources. in this study, a combined approach of dpsir model along with the scenarioanalysis was employed to deriv...