Nonlocally coupled dynamical systems arise as models of diverse phenomena throughout physics, biology, and engineering. They feature a variety of remarkable spatio-temporal patterns such as twisted states, waves, chimera states, and coherence-incoherence transition, to name a few. The talks in this special session highlight recent developments in the mathematical theory of nonlocally coupled sy...

The conventional approach to sampling signals or images follows the celebrated Shannon sampling theorem: the sampling rate must be at least twice the maximum frequency present in the signal (the so-called Nyquist rate). In fact, this principle underlies nearly all signal acquisition protocols used in consumer audio and visual electronics, medical imaging devices, radio receivers, and so on. In ...

Abstract Chinweizu’s wide-ranging and copious intellectual output persistently brings into sharp focus penetrating analysis of Asia’s contemporary rise (read in Chinweizuan terms as autonomous modernization industrialization) juxtaposition to Africa’s de-industrialization with it her firm rootedness at the periphery global power. “Africa’s Staticity-Asia’s Rise” is a binary that bothers Chinwei...

Recent developments in ontology learning research have made it possible to generate significantly more expressive ontologies. Novel approaches can support human ontology engineers in rapidly creating logically complex and richly axiomatized schemas. Although the higher complexity increases the likelihood of modeling flaws, there is currently little tool support for diagnosing and repairing onto...

The jets in the equatorial Pacific Ocean of a realistically forced global circulation model with a horizontal resolution of 1=12:5 cause a strong loss of phase coherence in semidiurnal internal tides that propagate equatorward from the French Polynesian Islands and Hawaii. This loss of coherence is quantified with a baroclinic energy analysis, in which the semidiurnal-band terms are separated i...

From around 2000 onwards, donors and recipient governments embarked upon a new aid paradigm. The most important elements include increased selectivity in the aid allocation, more ownership of recipient countries based on nationally elaborated Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs), and more donor alignment and harmonization via programme-based approaches such as budget support. The paper ass...