1122 to raise the attractiveness of Europe to draw scientists from other parts of the world; and to raise the overall level of research investment in Europe. An ERC that is just a funding mechanism might not be able to achieve this. It was Iain Mattaj, present Scientific Director and the designated Director General of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, who ...

The high incidence of emerging infectious diseases has highlighted the importance of effective immunization strategies, especially the stochastic algorithms based on local available network information. Present stochastic strategies are mainly evaluated based on classical network models, such as scale-free networks and small-world networks, and thus are insufficient. Three frequently referred s...

with respect to many problems in rural areas such as poverty, inequality, migration, vulnerability and unemployment, the rural entrepreneurship is of great importance. doubtless entrepreneurship can increase the level of employment and income and play an important role for sustainable development in rural areas. in this article, through a behavioral approach and based on a procedural model indi...

The primary goal of this paper is to provide substantial motivation for exploring an Acquaintance account phenomenal consciousness, on which what fundamentally explains consciousness the relation acquaintance. Its secondary take a few steps towards such account. Roughly, my argument proceeds as follows. Motivated by prioritizing naturalization, debate about nature has been almost monopolized re...

A design is presented for a negotiating agent that can construct coherent joint plans with human or artificial agents. In negotiation there is always a trade-off between plan quality and dialogue length. In dynamic conditions and with human partners, length becomes critical. The approach to efficient negotiation is to use an acquaintance model that predicts which plans will be acceptable. The n...