This anthology commemorates a most unusual and complex person. Homer William Smith was best known as a renal physiologist whose work ranged from the evolution of the kidney to clinical studies on renal function and disease in man. He also studied and wrote about religion and philosophy, and published two novels, one of which, Kamongo, had rather a surprising success considering that its "plot" ...

John Maynard Smith was one of the most original thinkers in evolutionary biology of the post neo-Darwinian synthesis age. He was able to define new problems with clarity and by doing so open up new research directions. He did this in a number of areas including game theory and evolution, the evolution of sex, animal behavior, evolutionary transitions and molecular evolution. Although he is best...

Smith is an instructional, interactive, menu driven program that offers the use of Smith Chart on a personal computer. Using the Smith Chart is greatly simplified by providing the user with a “tracking mode” in which the cursor is tracked, showing the normalized resistance and reactance as well as distances from source and load. Also, construction lines such as radius, diameter and circles can ...

Ontology as a branch of philosophy is the science of what is, of the kinds and structures of objects, properties, events, processes and relations in every area of reality. 'Ontology' is often used by philosophers as a synonym of 'metaphysics' (a label meaning literally: 'what comes after the Physics'), a term used by early students of Aristotle to refer to what Aristotle himself called 'first p...

I n The Wealth of Nations, published in 1776, Adam Smith famously argued that economic behavior was motivated by self-interest. But 17 years earlier in 1759, Smith had proposed a theory of human behavior that looks anything but selfinterested. In his first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith argued that behavior was determined by the struggle between what Smith termed the “passions” and...

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The software industry and IT departments are facing extreme pressures to provide new applications that add value in today’s competitive environment. Whereas in the 1990s companies concentrated on implementing systems that reautomated functions to provide specific benefits, such as Y2K processing, today’s market demands new applications, and better integration within and between organizations. T...