American scientists breathed a collective sigh of relief last December after Judge John Jones ruled against teaching intelligent design (ID) in the classrooms of science. “The overwhelming evidence is that Intelligent Design is a religious view, a mere re-labeling of creationism and not a scientific theory,” Jones declared in his 139-page decision, issued in Dover, PA. “It is an extension of th...

There have been recent proposals in search of alternative security architectures to PKIs for grid application and e-Science. The application of identity-based cryptography (IBC) in designing a grid security architecture seems to be interesting because of its attractive properties, such as, being certificate-free and having small key sizes. In this paper, we discuss our latest research findings ...

Scenarios where the results of well-intentioned scientific research can be used for both good and harmful purposes give rise to what is now widely known as the 'dual-use dilemma'. There has been growing debate about the dual-use nature of life science research with implications for making biological weapons. This paper reviews several controversial publications that have been the focus of debat...

Econometrics has a long history as the technique of choice for testing the merits of alternative hypotheses across most of the social sciences as well as many of the natural and materials sciences, not to mention pharmaceutical science, where it is widely used to evaluate the efficacy of alternative medications, including the use of placebos as counterfactuals. However its greatest value is in ...

In this paper, we first establish both primal (involving directional derivatives and tangent cones) and dual characterizations (involving subdifferential and normal cones) for the local (global) error bounds of constrained set-valued systems; as an application, we then derive both primal and dual characterizations for the local (global) error bounds of the constrained convex inequality systems ...

Two related issues are explored for bond percolation on Z (with d ≥ 3) and its dual plaquette process. Firstly, for what values of the parameter p does the complement of the infinite open cluster possess an infinite component? The corresponding critical point pfin satisfies pfin ≥ pc, and strict inequality is proved when either d is sufficiently large, or d ≥ 7 and the model is sufficiently spr...