Tying Things Together

Kai Simons: tying things loosely together

It was an early experiment in his private life that taught cell biologist Kai Simons how helpful cooperation can be. His wife Carola, a dentist, his sister Majlen, his brother-in-law, cell biologist Ari Helenius, and he lived in the same house, not only sharing the babysitter for their five children but also taking turns to go home from work at four o’clock to play with the children. In experim...

Tying It All Together

Comparative CMBology: Putting Things Together

I present a series of diagrams which illustrate why the cosmic microwave background (CMB) data favor certain values for the cosmological parameters. Various methods to extract these parameters from CMB and non-CMB observations are forming an ever-tightening network of interlocking constraints. I review the increasingly precise constraints in the Ωm−ΩΛ plane and show why more cosmologists now pr...

Tying it all together: Inter-operable Topic-Centred Information Portals

In order to be more flexible in publishing information and improve accessibility of information for end-users, Oslo Municipality has funded the SUBLIMA project [25]. Within this project a stack of open source Semantic Web and Content Management System (CMS) components is used in order to deliver a flexible solution for publication of meta-data from libraries. Queries from a specific front-end a...

Eliciting and Combining Influence Diagrams: Tying Many Bowties Together

The work presented here is part of a research project to develop decision-support software for case managers in the Kentucky social welfare system. Welfare case managers help their clients plan participation in activities such as volunteer work, job readiness programs, substance abuse counselling, or study in high school or college, for example. The case manager’s advice is guided by her percep...