world generally. Wilhelm Boeck was born at Kongsberg in 1808, became a student in 1S27. Doctor in 1831; he was elected member of the Storthing in 1845 and Professor at the University in 1846. Boeck's name and scientific merits stand in special connexion witli his investigation of two of the most terrible forms of disease which have afflicted and still afflict the human race. Of one of these, Le...

Figure 1. Professor Da-Yi Hu, MD, FACC Professor Da-Yi Hu (Figure 1) was born in Henan province of central China, in 1946. He graduated from the Beijing Medical School (now Peking University Health Science Center) in 1970 and furthered his education both at SUNY-Oswego and University of Illinois from 1985 to 1987. Professor Hu has been a pioneer in the field of radio-frequency ablation technolo...

For almost twelve years, David Hadden has with care and considerable patience edited The Ulster Medical Journal. During that period over four hundred papers have arrived on his desk in their various shapes and states ranging from the highly polished, nearly ready for the printer, to those in 'kit' form (minus a plan) requiring him to assemble them into a coherent whole. The ability to write in ...

The 15th Baikal International School-Seminar on OPTIMIZATIONMETHODS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS is dedicated to the memory of Professor Valerian Pavlovich Bulatov.

Remembering Professor Ohnishi, I have to think about the time when we first met as graduate students specializing in radiation biology and became friends. We shared a liking for ping-pong and the Chinese language. During congresses, we would leave the main venue and enjoy ourselves. In recent years, we had unfortunately turned in bad company as our position did not allow for it anymore. Not see...

Trust and reputation are fundamental concepts in multi-agent systems, but at the same time are significant to human life. The purpose of this paper is to find a way to enhance collective intelligence within organizations. First, we present some perspectives concerning the concepts of collective intelligence, trust and reputation. Then we suggest four computational models of trust and reputation...

Professor Hugh Gurling, who died aged 63, was a pioneering psychiatrist who was determined to find the genes causing severe mental illness. His resolve to investigate the biological processes underlying disorders such as schizophrenia, manic depression and alcoholism was very much out of kilter with the rest of his academic colleagues when he began his quest in the late 1970s; the focus in psyc...

Critical flux detection in a silica scaling RO system Lisitsin, D., Hasson, D. and Semiat, R. Desalination 186, 311-318, 2006 Reverse osmosis desalination has achieved prominence as the most cost effective desalting technology. The objective of the present paper was to develop adequate tools for diagnosing malfunctioning of the generally adopted spiral wound module design. Efforts were undertak...

Research interests: Asymmetric catalysis for organic synthesis, including chiral diaminocarbene ligands and VHOIɅDVVHPEOHGGLQXFOHDU catalysts; development of VPDOOPROHFXOHDQWLɅFDQFHU agents; and total synthesis of complex molecules with interesting biological activities. Abstract Novel chiral Co-salen catalysts capable of self-assembly through hydrogen bonding have been developed. First, a self...