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Outlook on Emerging Markets

Although December’s US rate hike has removed one source of uncertainty for emerging markets investors, 2016 started on a sour note, with 2 January 2016 making history as one of the worst first trading days on record for many markets around the world. Chinese onshore exchanges were hard-hit by weak Chinese manufacturing data and further renminbi depreciation. Sharp declines on the Shanghai and S...

Outlook on Evolution and Society

Insectand tick-vectored diseases such as malaria, dengue fever, and Lyme disease cause human suffering, and current approaches for prevention are not adequate. Invasive plants and animals such as Scotch broom, zebra mussels, and gypsy moths continue to cause environmental damage and economic losses in agriculture and forestry. Rodents transmit diseases and cause major preand postharvest losses,...

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A little over a year ago I gave the summary talk at SUSY-95 in Paris. It was quite a dreadful experience. I came to the Conference with nothing in my hands, sat through all the talks but one, preparing my transparencies at night, skipping all social events. Very tired, I ended trying to summarize every talk, even the one which, not only I had missed, but also, as I learned later, had been cance...

A Categorical Outlook on Cellular Automata

In programming language semantics, it has proved to be fruitful to analyze context-dependent notions of computation, e.g., dataflow computation and attribute grammars, using comonads. We explore the viability and value of similar modeling of cellular automata. We identify local behaviors of cellular automata with coKleisli maps of the exponent comonad on the category of uniform spaces and unifo...

The Japanese Mental Outlook on Life