This is a "slightly edited version" of Fahlman's 1977 Ph.D. dissertation. Fahlman presents a knowledge representat ion organized as "a pat tern of interconnect ions of very simple parallel processing elements: node units which can store a dozen or so distinct marker-bits, and link units which can propagate these markers from node to node, in parallel through the network" [p. 1]. Fahlman conside...

Video content becomes increasingly important in WWW applications as the emerging global cyber infrastructure develops. Improvements in hardware (e.g., fast CPUs, graphics chips, inexpensive mass storage, inexpensive video cameras, cell phones), software (e.g., video editors, video player extensions to web browsers and other general-purpose applications, web development environments), and networ...

Electron crystallography is arguably the only electron cryomicroscopy (cryo EM) technique able to deliver atomic resolution data (better then 3 Å) for membrane proteins embedded in a membrane. The progress in hardware improvements and sample preparation for diffraction analysis resulted in a number of recent examples where increasingly higher resolutions were achieved. Other chapters in this bo...

With the entry into force of Decree Government Russian Federation on traceability grain, agricultural producers are obliged to promptly enter data grain harvested from fields and place its storage information system. For guaranteed entry, it is proposed implement, in parallel with existing procedure, a receipt accounting system based tracking geolocation reloading combine vehicles for transport...

training systems, a problem that every grower will solve in his own way. In Part 2, this kind of trivialities are lacking. The subject matter is reviewed always in a similar manner, which makes ®nding something or comparing various fruits very easy. After a few remarks on origin, distribution and botanical name, under the heading `key points' a number of important aspects on cultivation, storag...

The anticipation of the forthcoming behaviour of social interaction partners is a useful ability supporting interaction and communication between social partners. Associations and prediction based on the production system (in line with views that listeners use the production system covertly to anticipate what the other person might be likely to say) are two potential factors, which have been pr...