This wide-ranging survey considers the future of machines in terms of information, complexity and the growth of knowledge shared amongst agents. Mechanical and human agents are compared and contrasted, and it is argued that, for the foreseeable future, their roles will be complementary. The future development of machines is examined in terms of unions of human and machine agency evolving as par...

mercial and residential development. Ongo ng improvements to Highway 14 are indicative of the ne',d for furller aggregate resources, a demand which will not lecline i n the foreseeable future. The urban areas of Spoke, vlilnes L a d ing and Saseenos, have limitec extrac:ion 'lotential, but aggregate resources located in thr:se areas. are 2 (so discussed on the premise that economic prioritie...

and, if confirmed from well-designed longitudinal cohort studies in the future, will hopefully be helpful in establishing public health strategies for preventing obesity and its related cardiovascular disease at the population level. Considering the increasing prevalence of obesity and its associated chronic diseases in Korea and the few numbers of published studies on early risk factors for ob...

I present one-loop level calculations of the Isgur-Wise functions for B → D(∗)eν, of the matrix elements of isovector twist-2 operators in B and D mesons, and the matrix elements for the radiative decays D∗ → Dγ in partially quenched heavy quark chiral perturbation theory. Such expressions are required in order to extrapolate from the light quark masses used in lattice simulations of the forese...

Bruel and colleagues nicely demonstrate that the infusion of 2 l cold saline during resuscitation is a feasible, effective, and safe measure to induce therapeutic hypothermia in out-ofhospital cardiac arrest [1]. Therapeutic hypothermia was induced in 33 eligible advanced life support patients before primary survival was foreseeable, and was continued in 11 patients after intensive care unit ad...

It has been speculated that cosmic string networks could produce ultra-high energy cosmic rays as a by-product of their evolution. By making use of recent work on the evolution of such networks, it will be shown that the flux of cosmic rays from cosmologically useful, that is GUT scale strings, is too small to be used as a test for strings with any foreseeable technology.

The condition known as the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) was initially described at the Center for Disease Control, Atlanta, USA, ",2 and the first case of AIDS in the United Kingdom was reported in 1981.3 At the time of writing, only one established case has been reported in Northern Ireland.4 In the absence of effective prevention and treatment, it seems certain that there will b...

Wireless communication and networking is experiencing a dramatic growth, and all indicators point to an extension of this growth in the foreseeable future. This paper reflects on the demands and the opportunities offered with respect to the integrated implementation of these applications in the “systems-on-a-chip” era. It is demonstrated that the combined need of flexibility and energy-efficie...

Research into polymers incorporating polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) has intensified during the past several years, revealing new fundamental polymer physics, new synthetic routes, and unexpected applications. The present review article critically examines the recent scientific literature on POSS polymers with an emphasis on structure-property relationships. We conclude that it is a...

Coral reefs, with their millions of species, have changed profoundly because of the effects of people, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Reefs are subject to many of the same processes that affect other human-dominated ecosystems, but some special features merit emphasis: (i) Many dominant reef builders spawn eggs and sperm into the water column, where fertilization occurs....