It is time to hand over the chairmanship of the IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Data Engineering. I took over from Erich Neuhold in 2007. I have had the pleasure of working with an oustanding TCDE Executive Committee comprised of Calton Pu, Thomas Risse, Erich Neuhold, Guy Lohman, Karl Aberer, Masaru Kitsuregawa, David Lomet and Yannis Ioannides. TCDE has continued to sponsor several conferences...

In well-behaved cases of adjectival modification, the adjective-noun sequence describes a firstorder property whose content is fully determined by the contents of the adjective and the noun. For example, the truth conditions of They hired a vegetarian dentist, They hired a former linguist, and They hired an electrical engineer, are functions of the property of being a vegetarian dentist, of bei...

It is commonly believed that the central visual field (fovea and parafovea) is important for recognizing objects and faces, and the peripheral region is useful for scene recognition. However, the relative importance of central versus peripheral information for object, scene, and face recognition is unclear. Larson and Loschky (2009) investigated this question in the context of scene processing ...

found that spending time alone or feeling comfortable alone is correlated with worse, rather than better, adjustment in adulthood (Larson, 1990; Larson & Lee, 1996). In adulthood, as in childhood, aloneness appears to be more like a deficit state. Of course, these findings may be due to many other factors in adults lives being unmarried, job factors, and misanthropy that are confounded with alo...

Received: 11 March 2003 Accepted: 21 May 2003 Published online: 5 September 2003 Springer-Verlag 2003 Abstract We study the shear problem for nematic polymers as modeled by the molecular kinetic theory of Doi (1981), focusing on the anomalous slow flow regime. We provide the kinetic phase diagram of monodomain (MD) attractors and phase transitions vs normalized nematic concentration (N) and wea...