The world economic crisis has affected nearly all industries in recent months with most reporting substantial drop offs in demand. This has forced manufacturers to make major course corrections while they ride out the storm. Some manufacturers are suffering from cash flow problems and are looking for ways to generate quick cash by delaying investments with long return periods. These manufacture...

I examine the possibility that the electroweak interaction breaks itself via the condensation of fermions in large representations of the weak SU(2)L gauge group.

Papers in this special issue of the Journal of Anxiety Disorders concern critical issues and core assumptions that underlie the diagnostic construct of posttraumatic stress disorder. Rather than addressing specific points raised in these papers, we consider the issues and their implications for redefining PTSD and associated disorders in the DSM-V. Specific proposals are advanced to tighten def...

-open sets were introduced and studied by Janković and Hamlett (1990) to generalize the well-known Banach category theorem. Quasi-openness was introduced and studied by Abd El-Monsef et al. (2000). These are∗-dense-in-itself sets of the ideal spaces. In this note, properties of these sets are further investigated and characterizations of these sets are given. Also, their relation with -dense se...

Metaphors of Computation and Information tended to detract attention from the intrinsic modes of neural system functions, uncontaminated by the observer's role in collection, and interpretation of experimental data. Recognizing the self-referential mode of function, and the propensity for self-organization to critical states requires a fundamentally new orientation, based on Complex System Dyna...

As radiation levels around the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Japan increase, the Japanese people as well as individuals around the world have expressed fear of radiation that some experts say could be more unhealthy than the levels of leaked radioactive contamination. This article addresses why individuals fear radiation and provides resources occupational health nurses can consu...

Instantaneous representation offers the promise of showing reality itself, but as all representation removes context, it still relies on what are traditionally considered to be elements of writing, rather than existing in opposition to writing. Narrative is essential in any form of representation, as the proliferation of talk radio, ‘reality television’, docu-dramas, etc. shows. Virtual reality...

M any a research paper, textbook chapter, and grant proposal has begun with the phrase " Mutation is the ultimate source of genetic variation. " Implicit in this phrase is the assumption that genetic variation is required for evolution. Without mutation, evolution would not be possible, and life itself could never have arisen in the first place. However, there is overwhelming evidence that the ...

Query processors have long been monolithic pieces of software that resist extension. Query capabilities are needed in many applications of persistent object bases, but object models and storage managers are evolving so rapidly that matching a monolithic query processor to each of them is infeasible. The EREQ project seeks to structure object query processors into well-defined software component...