Big Brother Is Shouting At You, Daily Mail 
Excerpts: Britain's first 'talking' CCTV cameras have arrived, publicly berating bad behaviour and shaming offenders into acting more responsibly. The system allows control room operators who spot any anti-social acts - from dropping litter to late-night brawls - to send out a verbal warning: 'We are watching you'.
Middlesbrough has fitted loudspeakers on seven of its 158 cameras in an experiment already being hailed as a success. Jack Bonner, who manages the system, said: 'It is one hell of a deterrent. It's one thing to know that there are CCTV cameras about, but it's quite another when they loudly point out what you have just done wrong.
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Excerpts: IF THE web was once an enormous library, it is now a vast conversation. (...) Everyone can participate. Young people now communicate more through social networking websites than through email. Instead of keeping diaries, they keep blogs; instead of photo albums, they have Flickr.
While older adults go online to find information, the younger crowd go online to live. The boundaries between private and public and between offline and online are blurring, and there is a widening generation gap between adolescents growing up with social technology and adults who find it foreign and unsettling. Welcome to the MySpace generation.
I'll Have To Ask My Friends, New Scientist
Summary: Instant messaging, Wi-Fi and cellphones allow us to be constantly plugged into our social networks. Sociologist Sherry Turkle worries this is transforming human psychology
Is social networking changing the way people relate to each other?
For some people, things move from "I have a feeling, I want to call a friend" to "I want to feel something, I need to make a call". In either case, what is not being cultivated is the ability to be alone and to manage and contain one's emotions. When technology brings us to the point where we're used to sharing our thoughts and feelings instantaneously, it can lead to a new dependence, sometimes to the extent that we need others in order to feel our feelings in the first place.
Our new intimacies with our machines create a world where it makes sense to speak of a new state of the self. When someone says "I am on my cell", "online", "on instant messaging" or "on the web", these phrases suggest a new placement of the subject, a ...
A Unifying Framework for Complexity Measures of Finite Systems, SFI Working Papers
Abstract: We develop a unifying approach for complexity measures, based on the principle that complexity requires interactions at different scales of description. Complex systems are more than the sum of their parts of any size, and not just more than the sum of their elements. We therefore analyze the decomposition of a system in terms of an interaction hierarchy. In mathematical terms, we present a theory of complexity measures for finite random fields using the geometric framework of hierarchies of exponential families. Within our framework, previously proposed complexity measures find their natural place and gain a new interpretation.
Mechanical vs. Informational Components of Price Impact, SFI Working Papers
Excerpt: We study the problem of what causes prices to change. We define the mechanical impact of a trading order as the change in future prices in the absence of any future changes in decision making, and its it informational impact as the remainder of the total impact once mechanical impact is removed. We introduce a method of measuring mechanical impact and apply it to order book data from the London Stock Exchange. (...)
A Rational Indicator of Scientific Creativity, arXiv
Abstract: A model is proposed for the creation and transmission of scientific knowledge, based on the network of citations among research articles. The model allows to assign to each article a nonnegative value for its creativity, i. e. its creation of new knowledge. If the entire publication network is truncated to the first neighbors of an article (the n references that it makes and the m citations that it receives), its creativity value becomes a simple function of n and m. After splitting the creativity of each article among its authors, the cumulative creativity of an author is then proposed as an indicator of her or his merit of research. In contrast with other merit indicators, this creativity index yields similar values for the top scientists in two very different areas (life sciences and physics), thus offering good promise for interdisciplinary analyses.
Scripted Stone: Ancient Block May Bear Americas' Oldest Writing, Science News
Excerpts:  WRITER'S BLOCK. Signs such as these (inset), inscribed on a slab from southern Mexico, may represent the earliest known writing in the Americas. Houston |
Road builders in southern Mexico discovered a script-covered block of stone among the rubble in a gravel quarry in 1999. A research team has now announced that the marks on the slab represent the oldest writing yet discovered in the Americas. The quarry where the script was found abuts an archaeological site, near Veracruz, in what was the heartland of the ancient Olmec civilization. The imagery used in the writing indicates that the artifact, known as the Cascajal block, displays an early form of Olmec writing dating to nearly 3,000 years ago, says Stephen D. Houston of Brown University in Providence, R.I.
Old Olmec Writing, Science
Excerpts: The Olmec civilization of Central America [~1200 to 400 years before the common era (BCE)] may have been the precursor to later complex societies such as the Maya (100 to 600 CE) and Aztec (1200 to 1500 CE), yet unambiguous evidence of earliest Olmec writing is lacking. Rodr?guez Mart?nez et al. (p. 1610; see the news story by Lawler ) report the discovery of a stone block from Veracruz, Mexico, inscribed with an unknown system of writing. Taken from a gravel quarry, the block has been dated to the first millennium CE, which is earlier than previous finds. The glyphs, still undeciphered, bear similarity to other Olmec imagery, and the pattern is consistent with a system of writing.
Mild Climate, Lack Of Moderns Let Last Neandertals Linger In Gibraltar
Excerpts: A team working at Gibraltar, at the southern tip of Spain, reports radiocarbon dates suggesting that some Neandertals survived thousands of years longer than previously thought, taking refuge in southern Europe where the climate and environment were favorable, and where modern humans were still fairly thin on the ground.
The Amazing Fossil Of 'Lucy's Little Sister', New Scientist
Excerpts: The stunningly complete skeleton of a three-year-old girl who lived 3.3 million years ago has been uncovered in Ethiopia. The child belongs to the species Australopithecus afarensis like the famous "Lucy", who was discovered in
'Lucy's Baby' Found In Ethiopia, BBC News
Excerpts:  The juvenile specimen is wonderfully preserved |
The 3.3-million-year-old fossilised remains of a human-like child have been unearthed in Ethiopia's Dikika region. The female Australopithecus afarensis bones are from the same species as an adult skeleton found in 1974 which was nicknamed "Lucy". Scientists are thrilled with the find, reported in the journal Nature.
They believe the near-complete remains offer a remarkable opportunity to study growth and development in an important extinct human ancestor.
Evolutionary Biology: Human Brain Gene Wins Genome Race, Nature
Excerpts: The differences in brain size and function that separate humans from other mammals must be reflected in our genomes. It seems that the non-coding 'dark matter' of genomes harbours most of these vital changes. The human brain is supposed to set us apart from other animals. If so, our genome must retain the imprint of our brain's recent evolution. So which parts of our genome have seen the most change, and are these genomic innovations linked directly to our unique brain structure and function?
An Rna Gene Expressed During Cortical Development Evolved Rapidly In Humans, Nature
Excerpts: The developmental and evolutionary mechanisms behind the emergence of human-specific brain features remain largely unknown. However, the recent ability to compare our genome to that of our closest relative, the chimpanzee, provides new avenues to link genetic and phenotypic changes in the evolution of the human brain. We devised a ranking of regions in the human genome that show significant evolutionary acceleration.
- Source: An Rna Gene Expressed During Cortical Development Evolved Rapidly In Humans, Katherine S. Pollard, Sofie R. Salama, Nelle Lambert, Marie-Alexandra Lambot, Sandra Coppens, Jakob S. Pedersen, Sol Katzman, Bryan King, Courtney Onodera, Adam Siepel, Andrew D. Kern, Colette Dehay, Haller Igel, Manuel Ares, Jr, Pierre Vanderhaeghen, David Haussler, DOI: 10.1038/nature05113, Nature 443, 167-172, 06/09/14
Microglial Senescence: Does The Brain's Immune System Have An Expiration Date?, Trends Neurosc.
Excerpts: Microglia are seen as the sentries in the CNS who provide a first line of defense whenever there is injury or disease. (...) Recent work in the aged human brain has provided morphological evidence of structural deterioration of microglia, and work in rodents suggests that microglia are subject to replicative senescence (loss of mitotic ability after repeated rounds of replication). Together these observations raise the possibility that old age, and perhaps other factors (genetic and epigenetic) adversely affect viability and self-renewal capacity of microglia, resulting in the generation of senescent and/or dysfunctional cells. (...)
High Gamma Power Is Phase-Locked to Theta Oscillations in Human Neocortex, Science
Summary: Spontaneous cortical oscillations facilitate synaptic plasticity; correlate with attention and perceptual binding; and may play a role in transient, long-range coordination of distinct brain regions. Exactly how these transient oscillations influence each other and coordinate processing at both the single neuron and population levels is still not understood. Canolty et al. (p. 1626) show that the amplitude and phase of cortical theta rhythms modulate the power of high gamma band neuronal oscillations in the human electrocorticogram.
Abstract: We observed robust coupling between the high- and low-frequency bands of ongoing electrical activity in the human brain. In particular, the phase of the low-frequency theta (4 to 8 hertz) rhythm modulates power in the high gamma (80 to 150 hertz) band of the electrocorticogram, with stronger modulation occurring at higher theta amplitudes. Furthermore, different behavioral tasks evoke distinct patterns of theta/high gamma coupling across the cortex. The results indicate that transient coupling between low- and high-frequency brain rhythms coordinates activity in distributed cortical areas, providing a mechanism for effective communication during cognitive processing in humans.
- Source: High Gamma Power Is Phase-Locked to Theta Oscillations in Human Neocortex, R. T. Canolty, E. Edwards, S. S. Dalal,, M. Soltani, S. S. Nagarajan, H. E. Kirsch, M. S. Berger, N. M. Barbaro, R. T. Knight, DOI: 10.1126/science.1128115, Science, Vol. 313. no. 5793, pp. 1626 - 1628, 06/09/15
Anemia Affects Body And Maybe The Mind, ScienceDaily
Excerpts: For older adults, anemia's trademark loss of oxygen-toting red blood cells has long been linked to fatigue, muscle weakness and other physical ailments. Now researchers at Johns Hopkins have found a relationship between anemia and impaired thinking, too. "Our work supports the notion that mild anemia may be an independent risk factor for so-called executive-function impairment in older adults," says (...). "If further studies confirm that's true, this could mean that correction of anemia in these patients might offer a chance to prevent such a cognitive decline." (...)
Battle Of The Hermaphrodites Sexes Clash Even When Sharing The Same Body, Science News
Excerpts:  Dueling Flatworms. Two hermaphroditic flatworms, Pseudobiceros bedfordi, each with pale, side-by-side penises, show their undersides as they square off to mate. Michiels |
AWhen two of these small, speckled sea worms meet to mate, there's no taking turns. Each worm, 2 to 6 centimeters long, wields its pair of side-by-side penises like a weapon. One worm tries to fertilize the other by ejaculating anywhere on its partner's body, splashing it with sperm in a cocktail that dissolves flesh. After the brew eats a hole through the skin, the sperm work their way through various tissues until they reach the eggs.
In many P. bedfordi encounters, only one member of the pair gets its sperm to the other's eggs.
Fatty Fish Consumption Reduces Kidney Cancer Risk By 44%, Medical News Today
Excerpts: If you eat fatty fish, such as salmon or sardines, more than once a week, your chances of developing kidney cancer are 44% less than a person who does not eat fatty fish, according to researchers at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. The 15-year study of 61,433 women compared lean fish to fatty fish consumption, and the link to renal (kidney) cancer. The women answered a questionnaire about their eating habits in 1987 and then again in 1997. They were followed up in 2004.
Survival of Species in Patchy Landscapes: Percolation in Space and Time, SFI Working Papers
Excerpt: One of the major challenges in conservation biology is how to preserve natural populations in landscapes where various human activities (deforestation, urbanization, etc.) are shrinking the habitable area, and thus, natural populations can only exist in isolated or fragmented habitat patches. Theoretical considerations warn that gradual habitat loss can lead to a sudden breakdown in habitat connectivity. This fragmentation process is a critical transition, and can be described by models of isotropic percolation. (...) These laws may help to predict extinction, and define proper management techniques to prolong persistence.
Who Backs Ddt For Malaria Control, BBC News
Excerpts: The World Health Organization (WHO) has reversed a 30-year policy by endorsing the use of DDT for malaria control. The chemical is sprayed inside houses to kill malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
DDT has been banned globally for every use except fighting disease because of its environmental impacts and fears for human health.
WHO says there is no health risk, and DDT should rank with bednets and drugs as a tool for combating malaria, which kills more than one million each year.
Beating The Diffraction Barrier, Science
Excerpts: The resolution of cellular fluorescence imaging with conventional optical techniques is limited by diffraction to a size around two orders of magnitude greater than that of most proteins. Betzig et al. (p. 1642; see the 11 August news story by Couzin) introduce a method, termed photoactivated localization microscopy (PALM), for optical imaging of intracellular fluorescent proteins at nanometer resolution. In cryo-prepared thin sections, PALM images of membrane proteins in lysosomes and the Golgi apparatus show complex ultrastructure not resolvable by total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy. PALM images have also been obtained in fixed cultured cells for cytoskeletal proteins at or near the plasma membrane.
Oversize Orb: Puffy Planet Poses Puzzle, Science
Excerpts:  BIG! Planet HAT-P-1b closely orbits its orange-glowing parent star, while a partner star lies in the distance in this illustration. Inset compares Jupiter (left) with HAT-P-1b (right). D. Aguilar |
Astronomers have discovered what may be the largest planet yet found¡Xan orb that's 36 percent wider than Jupiter and that circles a nearby star. Researchers say that they're baffled by the giant extrasolar body, which has the lowest density of any known planet. Half as massive as Jupiter and residing 450 light-years from Earth, the planet is just one-twentieth the distance from its parent star that Earth is from the sun. But the planet's presence in this hot zone isn't enough to explain the orb's low density, about one-quarter that of water (...).
Rare Evolutionary Example Of 'Recent' Embosymbiont Offers Clues To How Plants Came To Be, ScienceDaily
Excerpts: Plastids are the photosynthetic engines in all algae and plants, and their origin and spread among eukaryotes, ultimately giving rise to land plants, was fundamental to the evolution of plants and animals on our planet. Plastids, which possess genomes that are distinct from the primary, nuclear genomes of cells, are thought to have arisen from so-called endosymbiosis, in which a cyanobacterium is captured by another cell, (...) researchers have shown that it is a recent endosymbiont whose genome features are virtually unchanged from those of its cyanobacterial progenitor. (...)
Synthetic Protocell Biology: From Reproduction to Computation, SFI Working Papers
Abstract: Cells are the building blocks of biological complexity. They are complex systems sustained by the coordinated cooperative dynamics of several biochemical networks. Their replication, adaptation and computational features emerge as a consequence of appropriate molecular feedbacks that somehow define what life is. As the last decades have brought the transition from the description-driven biology to the synthesis-driven biology, one great challenge shared by both the fields of bioengineering and origin-of-life is to find the appropriate conditions under which living cellular structures can effectively emerge and persist. Here we review current knowledge (both theoretical and experimental) on possible scenarios of artificial cell design and their future challenges.
Self-Assembly Processes In The Prebiotic Environment, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
Excerpt: An important question guiding research on the origin of life concerns the environmental conditions where molecular systems with the properties of life first appeared on the early Earth. An appropriate site would require liquid water, a source of organic compounds, a source of energy to drive polymerization reactions and a process by which the compounds were sufficiently concentrated to undergo physical and chemical interactions. One such site is a geothermal setting, in which organic compounds interact with mineral surfaces to promote self-assembly and polymerization reactions. Here, we report an initial study of two geothermal sites (...)
- Source: Self-Assembly Processes In The Prebiotic Environment, D. Deamer, S. Singaram, S. Rajamani, V. Kompanichenko, S. Guggenheim, DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1905, Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, 2006/09/11
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Energy Flow and the Organization of Life, SFI Working Papers
Excerpts: Life is universally understood to require a source of free energy and mechanisms with which to harness it. Remarkably, the converse may also be true: the continuous generation of sources of free energy by abiotic processes may have forced life into existence as a means to alleviate the buildup of free energy stresses. This assertion (...) would imply that life had to emerge on the earth, that at least the early steps would occur in the same way on any similar planet, and that we should be able to predict many of these steps from first principles of chemistry and physics (...) A deterministic emergence of life would (...) show that a part of the order we recognize as living is thermodynamic order inherent in the geosphere, and that some aspects of Darwinian selection are expressions of the likely simpler statistical mechanics of physical and chemical self-organization.
Climate Change: A Cosmic Connection, Nature
Excerpts: Physicists and climate scientists have long argued over whether changes to the Sun affect the Earth's climate? A cloud chamber could help clear up the dispute, reports Jeff Kanipe.
Nitrous Oxide - No Laughing Matter For Forests, New Scientist
Excerpts: Climate change could cause forests in Europe to spew out more and more nitrous oxide, aka laughing gas, a potent contributor to global warming.P>
As a greenhouse gas, N2O is 296 times as powerful as carbon dioxide and accounts for 6 per cent of the greenhouse effect.
They found that nitrifying soil bacteria thrive on high nitrogen levels, producing mainly nitrates, which are turned into N2O by denitrifying bacteria. As human activity adds more nitrogen to the biosphere, the production of N2O by the bacteria looks set to grow.
Land-Atmosphere Coupling And Climate Change In Europe, Nature
Excerpts: Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations are expected to enhance the interannual variability of summer climate in Europe1,2,3 and other mid-latitude regions4,5, potentially causing more frequent heatwaves1,3,5,6. Climate models consistently predict an increase in the variability of summer temperatures in these areas, but the underlying mechanisms responsible for this increase remain uncertain. Here we explore these mechanisms using regional simulations of recent and future climatic conditions with and without land-atmosphere interactions.
Tiny Uncrewed Aircraft To Fly Into Hurricanes, New Scientist
Excerpts: A small uncrewed aircraft is set to fly through the fierce winds surrounding the eye of a hurricane to take the first continuous data on how such storms gain their strength, according to a plan by NASA and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association.
The craft, called an aerosonde, will measure the temperature, pressure, humidity and wind velocity inside the storm in an effort to crack the tough problem of predicting changes in hurricane intensity.
A Chip That Can Transfer Data Using Laser Light, NY Times
Excerpts: The breakthrough was achieved by bonding a layer of light-emitting indium phosphide onto the surface of a standard silicon chip etched with special channels that act as light-wave guides. The resulting sandwich has the potential to create on a computer chip hundreds and possibly thousands of tiny, bright lasers that can be switched on and off billions of times a second. (...) In the past it has proved impossible to couple standard silicon with the exotic materials that emit light when electrically charged.
Double Disc Might End Hi-Def War, BBC News
Excerpts: Inventors have come up with a design for a disc that can store copies of films in rival high-definition formats. A US patent has been filed for the discs that could hold both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray versions of movies.
Currently movie makers and technology companies are dividing into camps that back either one or the other of the two formats.
The creation of the discs could end the looming battle over the different high-definition formats.
The Bootless Pc And Terabytes On A Dime, Computerworld
Excerpts: Imagine a PC with instantaneous boot up or storing 10TB of data -- 10,000 gigabytes -- on a device the size of a dime with data-transfer rates unhampered by any latency. Those are just two examples of the promises that storage nanotechnologies hold: combining the functions of memory chips and disk drives on a single piece of hardware that is a fraction of the size of devices today.
Antisocial Robots Go To Finishing School, New Scientist
Excerpts: Imagine having your own humanoid robot. It is great at its job so your floors and windows are gleaming and spotless, but it has an annoying habit of vacuuming the living room when you have a headache, or offering you a meal just as you are drifting off to sleep on the sofa. If you sometimes have difficulty reading other people's expressions and emotions, imagine how difficult it will be for silicon-brained robots. They will only ever be able to respond to us in an appropriate way if they can understand human moods.
How To Be Human
Excerpts: If this year's winner of the Loebner Prize is on the right track, call-center data could be what's needed to achieve the ultimate goal of artificial intelligence (AI): creating a computer program smart enough to hold a natural conversation. A self-trained enthusiast with no formal academic background in AI, Rollo Carpenter created the winning program, which learns by analyzing its conversations with people as they "chat" with it online. Regardless of the language, his program analyzes every utterance it witnesses, using what Carpenter calls contextual pattern-recognition techniques.
Teaching Math, Singapore Style, NY Times
Excerpts: The countries that outperform the United States in math and science education have some things in common. They set national priorities for what public school children should learn and when. They also spend a lot of energy ensuring that every school has a high-quality curriculum that is harnessed to clearly articulated national goals. This country, by contrast, has a wildly uneven system of standards and tests that varies from place to place. We are also notoriously susceptible to educational fads.
Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
U.N. Inspectors Dispute Iran Report By House Panel, Washington Post
Excerpts: U.N. inspectors investigating Iran's nuclear program angrily complained to the Bush administration and to a Republican congressman yesterday about a recent House committee report on Iran's capabilities, calling parts of the document "outrageous and dishonest" and offering evidence to refute its central claims. Officials of the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency said in a letter that the report contained some "erroneous, misleading and unsubstantiated statements." The letter, signed by a senior director at the agency, was addressed to Rep.#body_type2
a. Us Nuclear Study Of Iran Called Dishonest, Sidney Morning Herald
Excerpts: United Nations inspectors investigating Iran's nuclear program have angrily complained to the Bush Administration and a Republican congressman about a report on Iran's capabilities, calling parts of the document "outrageous and dishonest".
International Atomic Energy Agency officials, who produced evidence to refute the report's main claims, said in a letter on Wednesday that the report contained "erroneous, misleading and unsubstantiated statements".
Iraq War 'Disaster For Mid-East', BBC News
Excerpts: The UN secretary general has said that most Middle East leaders regard the US-led invasion of Iraq and its aftermath as a disaster for the region. Kofi Annan, speaking at a briefing following his recent tour of the region, said that the timing of any US withdrawal was now a key issue.
He said some leaders wanted the US to stay in Iraq and stabilise it, while others wanted an immediate withdrawal.
The White House said it disagreed with his characterisation of events in Iraq.
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- Computation in Finitary Quantum Processes, Karoline Wiesner, James P. Crutchfield, SFI Working Papers, DOI: SFI-WP 06-09-031
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- Synthetic Turing Protocells: Vesicle Self-Reproduction through Symmetry-Breaking Instabilities, Javier Macia, Ricard V. Solé, SFI Working Papers, DOI: SFI-WP 06-07-024
- Preventing Multipartite Disentanglement by Local Modulations, G. Gordon, G. Kurizki, 06/09/13
- Sexually Deceptive Chemistry: Beetle Larvae Fake The Scent Of Female Bees, 06/09/16, Science News, Trick chemistry lets a bunch of writhing caterpillars attract a male bee that they then use as a flying taxi on their way to find food.
- Social Decision Making with Multi-Relational Networks and Grammar-Based Particle Swarms, Marko A. Rodriguez, 2005/09/07, arXiv, DOI: cs.CY/0609034
- Complex Behavior in Simple Models of Biological Coevolution, Per Arne Rikvold, 2005/09/08, arXiv, DOI: q-bio.PE/0609013
- Students Switch On To Lectures By Podcast: Now Playing: History Module I, S. Burns, 2006/09/11, vnunet.com
- Prebiotic Materials From On And Off The Early Earth, M. Bernstein, 2006/09/11, Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1913
- Doctors Warn: Do Not Rely Only On What Young Athletes Say When Managing Concussions, 2006/09/13, ScienceDaily & University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
- Metabolic Costs Of Brain Size Evolution, K. Isler, C. P. van Schaik, 2006/09/14, Biology Letters, DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0538
- Privacy Group Tackles US Government On E-Spying: Electronic Frontier Foundation Aims To Expose Covert Surveillance, S. Nichols, 2006/09/15, vnunet.com
- Researchers To Build An Artificial "Bio-Electronic" Nose, 2006/09/15, Innovations-report
- Researchers Reveal 'Extremely Serious' Vulnerabilities In E-Voting Machines, 2006/09/15, Innovations-report
- Mutation Plays Key Role In Hypertension, 2006/09/15, ScienceDaily & University of Illinois at Chicago
- The Annotation Game: On Turing (1950) on Computing, Machinery, and Intelligence, Harnad, Stevan, 2006/09/17, Cogprints
- Complexity In Plasmas, J. T. Mendonça - titomendist.utl.pt, Jul. 2006, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, DOI: 10.1142/S0218127406015775
- Who's Socializing Whom? Complex Engagement In Sino-ASEAN Relations, A. D. Ba, Jun. 2006, The Pacific Review, DOI: 10.1080/09512740500473163
- Choosing Sides In The European Iraq Conflict: A Test Of New Geopolitical Theory, H. Mouritzen, Jun. 2006, European Security, DOI: 10.1080/09662830600903686
- Computer Intelligence And Formalization: Achieving True Computer "Intelligence" Will Require Formalizing Tasks And Context, K. A. Olsen, Sep. 2006, Computer Magazine, IEEE
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Managing Complex Organizations in a Complex World, Cambridge, MA, 07/01/25-26
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3rd International Workshop on Complexity and Philisophy, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 07/02/22-23
- Complexity and Organizational Resilience
The Village, Pohnpei, Micronesia, 07/05
- 2nd Intl Conf on Built Environment Complexity - Embracing complexity thinking in built environments, Cape Town South Africa, 07/05/21-25
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ECO 2007 Summit: Ecological Complexity and Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities for 21st-Century Ecology, Beijing, China, 07/05/22-27
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2007 IEEE/ICME Intl Conf on Complex Medical Engineering-CME2007, Beijing, China, 07/05/23-27
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Summer School In Complexity Science, London, UK, 07/07/08-17
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ECAL 2oo7 - 9th European Conference on Artificial Life
, Lisbon, Portugal, 07/09/10-14
Call for Papers - Course/Book Announcements
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Special Issue of the Artificial Life journal on the Evolution of Complexity,
Call for Papers
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Digital Graphics for Quantitative Finance,
Lineplot Productions, 2006
Why create movies of financial models? Because key stakeholders often don't understand them. The mathematical, data-intensive sphere of quantitative financial analysis can be a black box even for many in the industry. It is vital for users of this analysis to appreciate, understand and buy into, often literally, these difficult and important concepts.
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Life: An Introduction to Complex Systems Biology, Kunihiko Kaneko, Springer Series: Understanding Complex Systems, 2006
What is life? Has molecular biology given us a satisfactory answer to this question? And if not, why, and how to carry on from there? This book examines life not from the reductionist point of view, but rather asks the question: what are the universal properties of living systems and how can one construct from there a phenomenological theory of life that leads naturally to complex processes such as reproductive cellular systems, evolution and differentiation? The presentation has been deliberately kept fairly non-technical so as to address a broad spectrum of students and researchers from the natural sciences and informatics.
- Chaos and Complexity
Resources for Students and Teachers, 06/03/01
