Special Topic on Science Fiction

Special Feature on Discovery Science Special Feature on Discovery Science

Discovery has always attracted people and has been a major motive f o r c e of progress in human history. It has long been discussed in the philosophy o f science but it is only after 1960's that the problem of discovery became properly addressed by new philosophy of science group 6). In the last two decades, there has also been a considerable progress, in the eld of artiicial intelligence, of ...

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Science Fiction and Macdonald's Polynomials

This work studies the remarkable relationships that hold among certain m-tuples of the Garsia-Haiman modules M and corresponding elements of the Macdonald basis. We recall that in 10], M is deened for a partition`n, as the linear span of derivatives of a certain bihomogeneouspolynomial (x; y) in the variables x 1 ; x 2 conjecturedin 6], 10] that M has n! dimensionsand that its bigraded Frobeniu...

Special Topic on Francisella tularensis and Tularemia

sensory and regulatory factors described for the pathogen, particularly in view of its proven ability to survive in a multitude of environmental niches. However, it is also noted that there has been rapid progress in elucidating the gene regulation and identifying novel regulatory factors. One reason for recent, rapid progress in understanding the genetics of F. tularensis has been the developm...

Introduction to the special topic on nanomanufacturing

The semiconductor industry introduced sub-100-nanometer technology to consumers more than a decade ago, in the early 2000s. The field of ‘nanotechnology’ has since expanded rapidly, drawing on methods and materials from integrated electronics while adding many others, such as quantum dots, nanowires and self-assembly, and targeting applications in optoelectronics, biomedical devices, sensors, f...