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Abstract: This note discusses the analytic tools available for studying the interrelations between the economy and the ecological system. It points out the importance of the concept of cooperative games as an addition to the emphasis on non-cooperative games in both economics and ecology. The relation between both concepts of the games and the market system is discussed.
- Source: Eco(nomics/logy), K. J. Arrow - arrow
stanford.edu, DOI: 10.1007/s11284-006-0071-3, Journal Ecological Research, Jan. 2007, online 2006/10/10 - Contributed by Pritha Das - prithadas01yahoo.com
Stern-Judging: A Simple, Successful Norm Which Promotes Cooperation under Indirect Reciprocity, PLoS Comput Biol 
Abstract: We study the evolution of cooperation under indirect reciprocity, believed to constitute the biological basis of morality. We employ an evolutionary game theoretical model of multilevel selection, and show that natural selection and mutation lead to the emergence of a robust and simple social norm, which we call stern-judging. Under stern-judging, helping a good individual or refusing help to a bad individual leads to a good reputation, whereas refusing help to a good individual or helping a bad one leads to a bad reputation. Similarly for tit-for-tat and win-stay-lose-shift, the simplest ubiquitous strategies in direct reciprocity, the lack of ambiguity of stern-judging, where implacable punishment is compensated by prompt forgiving, supports the idea that simplicity is often associated with evolutionary success.
Brain Power Focused On Future-Tech Quest, MSNBC
Excerpts: Academy seeks input on the grandest challenges of engineering (...) controlling and saving energy of all kinds, which is important to humanity and to the nature of our world. This includes housing, electricity, transportation, machinery and a wide variety of fields," he wrote. (...)
Several professors said global climate change would pose the most urgent challenge facing humanity over the next century. "The overall challenge is to see ourselves, we humans, as a biogeochemical force that influences the planet at global scale and act accordingly. Engineers will play critical roles in building the way forward," (...).
In Traffic's Jam, Who's Driving May Be Surprising, NY Times
Excerpts: By examining a wealth of data collected by government agencies, a detailed and often surprising portrait of traffic in New York City emerges. (...) One of the most prevalent beliefs to crumble beneath the data might be called the suburban myth, the notion that suburbanites make up a majority of the commuters who drive to work in Manhattan.(...)
Census data show that more city residents than suburbanites drive to work in Manhattan every day, according to Mr. Schaller.
Desktop Fabricator May Kick-Start Home Revolution, New Scientist
Excerpts:  The Fab@Home device can be used to create 3D objects from various materials (Image: Hod Lipson / Evan Malone) |
A cheap self-assembly device capable of fabricating 3D objects has been developed by US researchers. They hope the machine could kick start a revolution in home fabrication - or "rapid prototyping" - just as early computer kits sparked an explosion in home computing. (...) The standard version of their Freeform fabricator - or "fabber" - is about the size of a microwave oven and can be assembled for around $2400 (?1200). It can generate 3D objects from plastic and various other materials.
Robo-Builder Threatens The Brickie, Times Online
Excerpts: IS THE writing on the wall for the brickie? Engineers are racing to unveil the world's first robot capable of building a house at the touch of a button. The first prototype ¡X a watertight shell of a two-storey house built in 24 hours without a single builder on site ¡X will be erected in California before April. A rival design, being pioneered in the East Midlands, with ?1.2m of government funding, will include sunken baths, fireplaces and cornices. There are even plans for robots to supplant painters and decorators by spraying colourful frescoes at an affordable price.
Teeny-Weeny Rules for Itty-Bitty Atom Clusters, NY Times
Excerpts: But he said he hoped that Berkeley's move would draw attention to animal studies suggesting ways that at least some nanoparticles might harm the lungs or brain and would influence regulators elsewhere to seek more information. Federal and state regulators, like their counterparts overseas, have so far been happy to sponsor meetings and studies that call for regulation but notably reluctant to engage in any. A very small fraction of the billions of dollars being invested in nanotechnology research is being used to ferret out potential risks.
Bioinformatics: Industrializing Neuroscience, Nature
Excerpts: The project for producing a genome-wide atlas of gene expression in the mouse brain shows how, with advancing technology, huge volumes of data can be collected and made accessible through the Internet.
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Excerpt: (...) The increasing awareness for the complexity of environmental problems and of human-technology-environment systems has triggered the development of new management approaches. The paper discusses the importance of focusing on the transition to new management paradigms based on the insight that the systems to be managed are complex adaptive systems. It provides arguments for the role of social learning processes and the need to develop methods combining approaches from hard and soft systems analysis. (...)
Cellular Contortionist - Can DNA Easily Get Bent Out Of Shape?, Science News
Excerpts: Mounting, but controversial, evidence suggests that DNA flexes more easily than previously thought, with potentially important implications for genetics, cell biology, and nanotechnology.
Shrinking Telomeres Linked To Heart Disease, New Scientist
Excerpts: (...) blood samples from 484 middle-aged men with moderately raised cholesterol, plus 1058 control subjects. They compared the telomere lengths in their white bloods cells at that time and then five years later. Both patients and controls with the shortest telomeres five years on were twice as likely to have developed serious heart disease. Intriguingly, the study also found that drugs called statins, which are better known for their cholesterol-lowering properties, appeared to alleviate the effects of telomere damage - and may even have protected telomeres against degradation.
Scientists Find Potential 'Off-switch' For HIV Virus, ScienceDaily
Excerpts: While there is no cure for lingering viral infections such as HIV and herpes, a recent study at Princeton University suggests it may be possible to deactivate such viruses indefinitely with the flick of a genetic switch. (...) hope their work will illuminate the processes by which human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other viruses transition into dormant phases in their hosts. The researchers have discovered a specific genetic trigger that makes HIV fall into its latent phase, where the virus essentially hibernates, relatively harmlessly, but awaiting an opportunity to re-emerge and wreak havoc. (...)
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Excerpts: Gliomas are a group of brain tumors where the most common type is also the most aggressive one. (...) But research (...) provides hope that it may be possible in the future to develop stem cells from the brain into a new way to treat gliomas. Neural stem cells have been shown to have the ability to recognize signals from tumor cells in the brain and migrate there. If stem cells are injected into a part of the brain in laboratory animals with a glioma in another part of their brain, the stem cells migrate over to the tumor area. (...)
New Study Supports A Stem Cell Origin Of Cancer, Physorg.com
Excerpts: (...) genes that are reversibly repressed in embryonic stem cells are over-represented among genes that are permanently silenced in cancers; this link lends support to the increasingly discussed theory that cancer is rooted in small populations of stem cells. USC researchers uncovered this link after observing that of 177 genes repressed by Polycomb group (PcG) proteins, fully 77 showed evidence of cancer-associated enzymatic modification of DNA (known as methylation).
Digital Fingerprints - Tiny Behavioral Differences Can Reveal Your Identity Online, Science News
Excerpts: Early during World War II, British intelligence officers eavesdropped on German radio transmissions, but because the messages were in an encrypted version of Morse code, the British couldn't understand the content. The dots and dashes came in distinctive rhythms, and the Allied spies quickly learned to recognize each Morse code operator's particular style, which the listeners called the operator's "fist."
Brain Activity Provides Novel Biometric Key, New Scientist
Excerpts: An electronic security system that identifies people by monitoring the unique pattern of electrical activity within their brain is being tested by European scientists. This novel biometric system should be difficult to forge, making it suitable for high-security applications, claim the researchers behind it. The system was developed by Dimitrios Tzovaras and colleagues at the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, in Greece. It uses an established method for measuring activity in the brain, called electroencephalography (EEG).
Must-Know Terms For The 21st Century Intellectual: Redux, Blog Sentient Developments
Excerpts: First, I am trying to come up with a list of the most fundamental and crucial terms that are coming to define and will soon re-define the human condition, and that subsequently should be known by anyone who thinks of themselves as an intellectual. I admit that there's an elitist and even pompous aspect to this exercise, but the fact of the matter is that the zeitgeist is quickly changing. It's not enough anymore to be able to quote Dostoevsky, Freud and Darwin. This said, while my list of terms is 'required' knowledge, I am not suggesting that it is sufficient.
Quantum Games: States Of Play, Nature
Excerpts: Life is full of events that are basically games, from paying for a meal to bidding in an auction. Can incorporating a quantum strategy into the rule book increase your chances of winning?
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Abstract: To what extent might the practicum be regarded as a complex phenomenon? After introducing complexity science and its potential to illuminate educational practice, five characteristics are explored within the context of teacher education. Vignettes from a kindergarten classroom extend this exploration into the practicum setting. Five implications emerge for student teacher supervision: redefining the practicum, rethinking evaluation, surrendering certainty, acknowledging complicity, and allowing for improvisation.
Adaptive Immunity: Care For The Community, Nature
Excerpts: A memory-based immune system may have evolved in vertebrates because of the need to recognize and manage complex communities of beneficial microbes.
Anthropology: The Missing Years for Modern Humans, Science
Excerpts: Current interpretations of the human fossil record indicate that fully modern humans emerged in sub-Saharan Africa by 195,000 years ago (1). By 35,000 years ago, modern humans thrived at opposite ends of Eurasia, from France to island southeast Asia and even Australia. How they colonized these and other drastically different environments during the intervening 160,000 years is one of the greatest untold stories in the history of humankind. Two reports on pages 226 and 223 of this issue (2, 3) and one in a recent issue of Science (4) interpret some of the chapters of this story.
Clues Found For Early Europeans, BBC News
Excerpts:  The researchers looked bone and ivory artefacts found at Kostenki |
An archaeological find in Russia has shed light on the migration of modern humans into Europe. Artefacts uncovered at the Kostenki site, south of Moscow, suggest modern humans were at this spot about 45,000 years ago.
The first moderns may have entered Europe through a different route than was previously thought, the international team reports.
The Ancestor Within All Creatures, New Scientist
Excerpts: Evolution isn't supposed to run backwards, but when it does it can sometimes represent the future of a species - even us From October to April every year, fishermen in Taiji in Japan herd schools of dolphins and porpoises into shallow bays and slaughter them for food. Each year they kill around 20,000 animals. That would have been the fate of one particular dolphin, a bottlenose that scientists now call AO-4, had fishermen not spotted something rather unusual about it.
Protection For 'Weirdest' Species, BBC News
Excerpts:  Clinging on to existence, a baby slender loris (Image: ZSL) |
A conservation programme for some of the world's most bizarre and unusual creatures has been launched by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL). Species like the bumblebee bat and the pygmy hippopotamus will be protected under the Evolutionary Distinct and Globally Endangered (Edge) project.
There's No Scent Like Home: Larval Fish Use Smell To Return To Coral Reefs, Innovations-report
Excerpts: Tiny larval fish living among Australia's Great Barrier Reef spend the early days of their lives swept up in ocean currents that disperse them far from their places of birth. (...), one might assume that fish populations would be genetically homogeneous within the dispersal area. Yet the diversity of reef fish species is high and individual reefs contain different fish populations. For such rich biodiversity to have evolved, some form of population isolation is required. New research (...) shows that some fish larvae can discriminate odors in ocean currents and use scent to return to the reefs where they were born. (...)
Taking Control of Electric Bill, Hour by Hour, NY Times
Excerpts: (...) a Web site that tells them, hour by hour, how much their electricity costs; they get e-mail alerts when the price is set to rise above 20 cents a kilowatt-hour. If just a fraction of all Americans (...) could adjust their power use accordingly, the savings would be huge. Consumers would save nearly $23 billion a year if they shifted just 7 percent of their usage during peak periods to less costly times, (...). That is the equivalent of the entire nation getting a free month of power every year.
Cutbacks Impede Climate Studies - U.S. Earth Programs In Peril, Panel Finds, Washington Post
Excerpts: The government's ability to understand and predict hurricanes, drought and climate changes of all kinds is in danger because of deep cuts facing many Earth satellite programs and major delays in launching some of its most important new instruments, a panel of experts has concluded. The two-year study by the National Academy of Sciences, released yesterday, determined that NASA's earth science budget has declined 30 percent since 2000. It stands to fall further as funding shifts to plans for a manned mission to the moon and Mars.
Musician In The Mirror: Brain Rapidly Forms Link Between Sounds And Actions That Produce Them, ScienceDaily
Excerpts: A new imaging study shows that when we learn a new action with associated sounds, the brain quickly makes links between regions responsible for performing the action and those associated with the sound. The findings may contribute to understanding how we acquire language and how we think of actions if we only hear their sounds, say authors (...) "The findings have implications for understanding many complex processes, such as speech and music performance," says Robert Zatorre, (...). The authors also suggest that their findings provide evidence for the existence of a mirror neuron system in humans. (...)
From Thought To Action: The Parietal Cortex As A Bridge Between Perception, Action, And Cognition, Neuron
Excerpt: The lateral intraparietal area (LIP) is a subdivision of the inferior parietal lobe that has been implicated in the guidance of spatial attention. In a variety of tasks, LIP provides a "salience representation" of the external world-a topographic visual representation that encodes the locations of salient or behaviorally relevant objects. Recent neurophysiological experiments show that this salience representation incorporates information about multiple behavioral variables-such as a specific motor response, reward, or category membership-associated with the task-relevant object. This integration occurs in a wide variety of tasks, including those requiring eye or limb movements (...).
Memories Are Made Of This Molecule, New Scientist
Excerpts: From New Scientist Print Edition. Subscribe and get 4 free issues. How are memories formed? The question has perplexed scientists for years, but now it seems we're a step closer to solving it.
The leading candidate is a process called long-term potentiation (LTP), in which the connections between individual brain cells get stronger the more often they are used, such as during learning. But while LTP has often been observed in slices of brain in the lab, it has been difficult to record in a living brain as learning was taking place.
Neurobiology: Fruit Fly Fight Club, Science
Excerpts: After a furious combination of blows, the pugilist has his opponent backed up to the edge of the ring. Punches fall like rain as the opponent teeters on the brink. But just when it looks like he can take no more, the fighter employs a surprising tactic. Planting one wing on the ground, he regains his balance and drives back his adversary with four wildly swinging legs. The combatants here are fruit flies, the ring is a thimble-sized cup of agar, and the fighting venue is a laboratory here at Harvard Medical School.
Lightning Balls Created In The Lab, New Scientist
Excerpts:  The luminous orbs the size of ping-pong balls persisted for up to 8 seconds, with smoke trails that formed spiral shapes, suggesting the balls were spinning (Images: Gerson Paiva |
Ball lightning could soon lose its status as a mystery, now that a team in Brazil has cooked up a simple recipe for making similar eerie orbs of light in the lab, even getting them to bounce around for several seconds. Watch a movie of the bouncing balls here. Thousands of people have reported seeing ball lightning, a luminous sphere that sometimes appears during thunderstorms. It is typically the size of a grapefruit and lasts for a few seconds or minutes, sometimes hovering, even bouncing along the ground.
Chemistry: Platinum in Fuel Cells Gets a Helping Hand, Science
Excerpts: The behavior of nanoscopic bits of platinum may determine whether a hydrogen-powered car is in your future. The precious metal is the key ingredient in fuel cells that power electric cars with hydrogen, producing water as the only byproduct. Unfortunately, current models are expensive because they use so much platinum, and their performance degrades too quickly for practical use. But advances by two U.S.-led groups offer new hope for tackling these problems.
First Stars In Telescope's Sights, BBC News
Excerpts:  - JWST is named after James E Webb, Nasa Administrator during the Apollo lunar exploration era; he served from 1961 to 1968
- It will be placed 1.5m km from Earth, at Lagrange Point 2, an area of gravitational balance between the Earth and the Sun
- The telescope will be shaded from sunlight by a shield, enabling it to stay cold, increasing its sensitivity to infrared radiation
- Three principal instruments will gather images of the Universe in the infrared region of the spectrum
- These will yield new information about how stars and galaxies first formed a few hundred million years after the Big Bang
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"We think we know the initial conditions of the Universe now, at least in a statistical way," said John Mather. "We have international agreement that our theories work up until the first stars start to form. The minute that interesting things start to happen, that stars light up and galaxies are forming, then all of those theories are no longer sufficient.
"We get into the complexity of immense chaotic processes. It's like going from climate prediction to tornado prediction."
Particle Physics: Hard-Core Revelations, Nature
Excerpts: Our description of how the atomic nucleus holds together has up to now been entirely empirical. Arduous calculations starting from the theory of the strong nuclear force provide a new way into matter's hard core.
The Bush Plan And The Petraeus Doctrine, BBC News
Excerpts: With his new plan for Iraq, President Bush runs the risk of going against the principles of the US army's new doctrine of counterinsurgency. The doctrine was written last year by the man who will command US forces in Iraq, Lieutenant General David Petraeus. (...)
- US public support for a protracted deployment is critical
- Offensive operations are only the beginning
- Executing COIN [counterinsurgency, Ed.] operations is complex, demanding and tedious - there are no simple, quick solutions
Rice Says Bush Authorized Iranians' Arrest in Iraq, NY Times
Excerpts: In the view of American officials, Iran is engaged in a policy of ¡§managed chaos¡¨ in Iraq. Its presumed goal, both policymakers and intelligence officials say, is to raise the cost to the United States for its intervention in Iraq, in hopes of teaching Washington a painful lesson about the perils of engaging in regime change. Toward this end, American officials charge, Iran has provided components, including explosives and infrared triggering devices, for sophisticated roadside bombs that are designed to penetrate armor.
The Other Losing War, NY Times
Excerpts: It [war on drugs, Ed.] strongly emphasizes eradicating the source of drugs, interdiction of traffic and draconian punishment for offenders. It neglects what nearly every expert believes ¡X and European experience has shown ¡X to be the only successful strategy: a demand-side emphasis on preventive programs and rehabilitation of addicts. The present administration's claims of a shift to preventive measures is belied by the budget of its drug control office, which allocates a 94% share to disrupting the supply, mainly through environmentally hazardous spraying in Latin America and the Caribbean that alienates local farmers.
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Excerpts: From vacuum cleaners and lawnmowers to military landmine detectors, robots are becoming increasingly present in our daily lives. Living on Earth's Bruce Gellerman visits MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) to meet a humanoid robot named Domo, its creator, PhD student Aaron Elsinger, and the man behind all the magic, CSAIL director Rodney Brooks.
 Aaron Edsinger with his robot Domo. (Photo: Emily Taylor) |
Pint-Sized Soldier With A Big Wallop - Combat Robot Built At Picatinny, Star-Ledge
Excerpts: The Army's newest recruit can't speak or climb stairs well. And at 3 feet tall and a whopping 200 pounds, it wouldn't pass a physical. But it fires a machine gun with half-mile accuracy and doesn't flinch.
The latest infantryman is electronic -- a gun-slinging robot developed at Picatinny Arsenal.
Engineers at the Army weapons research post in Rockaway Township hope to send the machine, the first of its kind, into combat this year.
Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
9/11 As A European Event: The Novels, Euro. Rev.
Excerpt: At the time of writing, more than 20 novels have been written that deal directly or indirectly with the events of 9/11. In broad outlines, they fall under four categories: the novel of recuperation, the novel of first-hand witnessing, the great New York novel, and the novel of the outsider. It is the last category of novels - written by non-Americans - that demonstrates the extent to which 11 September has penetrated deep into the European psyche and thus has become a European event. What is surprising is that the gap between the continents seems smaller in fiction than in politics. (...)
- Source: 9/11 As A European Event: The Novels, K. Versluys - kristiaan.versluysugent.be, DOI: 10.1017/S1062798707000063, European Review, Jan. 2007, online 2007/01/09
- Contributed by Pritha Das - prithadas01yahoo.com
New US Rules On Terror Detainees, BBC News
Excerpts: The US defence department has outlined new rules that could allow terror suspects to be imprisoned on the basis of hearsay or coerced testimony.
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Military lawyers representing detainees are worried that statements from other detainees could be used to incriminate defendants and there would be no way of knowing if the information was extracted under torture, (...).
But a senior lawyer for the Pentagon said the trials would be just and fair (...).
"Certainly, both sides having the opportunity to admit hearsay levels the playing field," (...).
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