This paper summarizes the findings and recommendations of a recent panel on Future Directions in Control, Dynamics, and Systems, sponsored by the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research. A set of grand challenges that illustrate some of the recommendations and opportunities are provided. Finally, the paper describes two new courses being developed at Caltech that are aligned with the recomme...

One of the grand challenges for society is global security in food and nutrition. The ‘‘perfect storm’’ metaphor has been used by Sir John Beddington to describe the scenario that wemight be heading for, with simultaneous shortages for food, water, and energy within the foreseeable future. This Select highlights the need for a truly multipronged approach across scientific disciplines and countr...

The results for heavy-light mesons are summarized in Table 1. The results presented here are based on the same statistical sample, consisting of 102 quenched configurations at β = 6.0 with lattice size 16 × 48, as used in our study of fB and fBs [1]. The details of the NRQCD action, the evolution equation for calculating the heavy quark propagator, the method used for setting the lattice scale,...

Increasing population and Industrialization are key pollutant contributors in water bodies. These wastes are highly hazardous for humansand ecosystem and require a comprehensive, effective treatment before discharge into water bodies. Over the years, many up gradations have been introduced in traditional water treatment methods which were expensive and ineffective especially for removal of heav...

The research field “Services Science” deals with the opportunities and challenges of service sectors inside and outside organizations, aiming at the industrialization (global division of labor and automation) of these sectors. This goal can only be reached when the performance know-how an individual needs to execute a task can be language-critically reconstructed and managed with the aid of com...

Under the deepening globalization, Vietnam is striving for the national goal of industrialization and modernization, a goal widely shared by other developing and transition countries. After seventeen years since the inception of the doi moi reform, and after roughly a decade of serious international integration, Vietnam is still not prepared to take full advantage of trade and investment libera...

V. A. Popescu, Commercial Academy of Satu-Mare and Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Gh. N. Popescu, C. R. Popescu, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania The paper focuses on competitiveness and sustainability in the context of a modern economic approach to industrial policy, presenting a case study on Romania. The paper shows the challenges of the globalized economy...

Almost 20 years of combinatorial chemistry have emphasized the power of numbers, a key issue for drug discovery in the current genomic era, in which it has been estimated that there might be more than 10,000 potential targets for which it would be desirable to have small-molecule modulators. Combinatorial chemistry is best described as the industrialization of chemistry; the chemistry has not c...