The field of one-dimensional dynamics, real and complex, emerged from obscurity in the 1970s and has been intensely explored ever since. It combines the depth and complexity of chaotic phenomena with a chance to fully understand it in probabilistic terms: to describe the dynamics of typical orbits for typical maps. It also revealed fascinating universality features that had never been noticed b...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a paradigm that can tremendously revolutionize health care thus benefiting both hospitals, doctors and patients. In this context, protecting the IoT in health care against interference, including service attacks and malwares, is challenging. Opacity is a confidentiality property capturing a system’s ability to keep a subset of its behavior hidden from passive obs...

To those who may have reaped pleasure and benefit from the reading of previous editions of Dr. Powell's work on diseases of the lungs it will not be necessary to do more than record the fact that the new edition is excellent reading and quite up to date as regards treatment, etc. In the preface to this edition there occurs a sentence which may well be taken to heart in these 'microbic' days:?"T...

In [CMSZ2], Cartwright, Mantero, Steger, and Zappa discovered a unitary group in three variables with respect to the quadratic extension Q( √ −15)/Q whose integral model over the integer ring with the prime 2 inverted gives rise to a diadic discrete group acting transitively on vertices of Bruhat-Tits building over Q2. Inside the integral model are three subgroups to which the restricted action...

Organizational information practices can result in a variety of privacy problems that can increase consumers’ concerns for information privacy. To explore the link between individuals and organizations regarding privacy, we study how institutional privacy assurances such as privacy policies and industry self-regulation can contribute to reducing individual privacy concerns. Drawing on Communica...

In the second half of the nineteenth century, pioneering discoveries of rich assemblages of fossil plants from the Cretaceous resulted in considerable interest in the first appearance of angiosperms in the geological record. Darwin's famous comment, which labelled the 'rapid development' of angiosperms an 'abominable mystery', dates from this time. Darwin and his contemporaries were puzzled by ...

Recently, all major search engines introduced a new feature: real-time search results, embedded in the first page of organic search results. The content appearing in these results is pulled within minutes of its generation from the so-called “real-time Web” such as Twitter, blogs, and news websites. In this paper, we argue that in the context of political speech, this feature provides dispropor...

Ever since its first description in 1918, Dientamoeba fragilis has struggled to gain recognition as a significant pathogen. There is little justification for this neglect, however, since there exists a growing body of case reports from numerous countries around the world that have linked this protozoal parasite to clinical manifestations such as diarrhea, abdominal pain, flatulence, and anorexi...

In the last few years the obscurity of science has been shattered by a new approach that addresses a slew of current questions: how our minds work, how family relationships function, how to protect the environment. The field of "Complex Systems"[1] is an approach to science that uses mathematical modeling to study how relationships between a system's parts give rise to collective behaviors, suc...

Though the study of grounding is still in the early stages, Kit Fine, in ”The Pure Logic of Ground”, has made a seminal attempt at formalization. Formalization of this sort is supposed to bring clarity and precision to our theorizing, as it has to the study of other metaphysically important phenomena, like modality and vagueness. Unfortunately, as I will argue, Fine ties the formal treatment of...