rarely, do we think of cancer as “bacterial”, such that we are often told that “cancer is not contagious” persistent bacterial infections cause persistent irritation of the host’s defense systems, which when ineffective in eradication of the infection, result in a multitude of self-destructive damages. this in some cases occurs to such severity that the resulting cellular hyper-proliferation pr...

In this paper we investigate the use of a supervised, but self-organizing, Adaptive Resonance Theory type of neural network (Fuzzy-ARTMAP), for first break picking in seismic reflection data. First break picking is the accurate location of the leading energy pulse received by a geophone in response to a seismic shot. The performance of Fuzzy-ARTMAP is compared to our previous work with multi-la...

At high temperatures the breaking of chemical bonds becomes relatively easy and the slow step in a chemical reaction shifts to the rate at which energy can seep into the bond that is to break. This has been observed by various investigators. A new general theory of reactions is developed here to explain this limiting rate at high temperatures. In the case of cyclopropane and cyclobutane the the...