Authors Jerome O Klein, MD Stephen Pelton, MD Section Editors Sheldon L Kaplan, MD Ellen M Friedman, MD Deputy Editor Mary M Torchia, MD Disclosures: Jerome O Klein, MD Consultant/Advisory Boards: GlaxoSmithKline [Vaccines (Pneumococcal)]; Cubist [Antibiotic for Clostridium difficile (Fidaxomicin)]. Stephen Pelton, MD Grant/Research/Clinical Trial Support: Pfizer [pneumococcal disease surveilla...

I will first explain the issue of social influence and illustrate the importance of evidence and trust relation between agents. Then I will introduce a new logic language that can be used to reason about an agents belief formation and dynamical change, due to evidences provided by other agents in the society. Some interesting features of social structure can be represented eventually as a updat...

The paper presents some approximation methods for the Boltz-mann equation. In the rst part fully implicit discretization techniques for the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation are investigated. The implicit equation is solved using an iteration process. It is shown that the iteration converges to the correct solution for the moments of the distribution function as long as the mass conserva...

Calculations based on density functional theory demonstrate the occurrence of local deformations of the perfect honeycomb lattice in nanographenes to form arrangements, with triangular symmetry, composed of six-membered ring patterns. The formation of these locally regular superstructures, which can be considered as benzenoid-like domains on the 2D graphene lattice, is ascribed to the gain in r...

Argument by multimodal metaphor usually plays a vital role of persuasion daily. In this paper, we analyse the argumentation of Lin Dan Commercial (LDC), an anti-corruption advertisement broadcasted on China Central Television, with conceptual metaphor theory and multimodal metaphor, in order to carry out an evaluation of the reasonableness and effectiveness of the argument. On practice, this re...

In this talk, I will show how our knowledge and belief are changed by agent communication. We apply dynamic epistemic logic to subtle differences of the result of agent communication, e.g., what is informed, what is known to each other, and what is aware of for each agent. En route, we discuss the reliability of information source, including the notion of communication channel. Thereafter, we a...

The molecular structure of any system may be unambiguously described by its adjacency matrix, A, in which bonds are assigned entry a(ij) = 1 and non-bonded pairs of atoms entry a(ij) = 0. For π-electron-containing conjugated hydrocarbons, this matrix may be modified in order to represent one of the possible Kekulé structures by assigning entry 1 to double bonds and entry 0 to single bonds, lead...

La jurisprudence de la Cour africaine est marquée par une confirmation des nombreux standards posés tant dans le champ procédural que substantiel, les contentieux systémiques concernant Bénin et Tanzanie étant explications cet état fait. aurait pu aborder nouvelles questions, notamment en matière droits économiques sociaux, affaires portées cont...