We appreciate the generous support of the National Science Foundation (IOC Award #0323176), the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, and the MIT Sloan School of Management. We also thank multiple individuals for their helpful comments, including Phil Anderson, Steve Barley, Diane Burton, Tim Carroll, Rebecca Henderson, Pankaj Ghemawat, Clark Gilbert, Riitta Katila, Bruce Kogut, Dan Levinthal, ...

MetaObject Protocols (M.O.P) recently deened for C++ Chi93a] do not t the needs of evolution in DataBases Management Systems (D.B.M.S.). In this paper, we present DyReCT, an extension of C++ that allows instances migration, reeection and run-time classes modiications. Thanks to a metalevel, these new functionalities are transparent for the user. DyReCT should fulll our future needs for data per...

Across time and geography people have known the power of music for evoking the gods and acquiring spiritual insight. Whether arising as a textless chant by a single voice or a percussive auditory event for ritual dance, music in its various modes is a virtually ubiquitous companion to religious and spiritual practices. Not only a constant accompaniment to one's spiritual trek, musical compositi...

Mitochondria of adult cardiomyocytes appear hypo-dynamic, lacking interconnected reticular networks and the continual fission and fusion observed in many other cell types. Nevertheless, proteins essential to mitochondrial network remodeling are abundant in adult hearts. Recent findings from cardiac-specific ablation of mitochondrial fission and fusion protein genes have revealed unexpected role...

This work relates to the solution of real multimedia documents indexing tasks. New approach to high-performance speech/music segmentation system creation is considered. This approach uses wavelet analysis and it is based not only on new distinctive features (entropy and dynamism) investigation, but it also takes into account information concerning language. Different experiments have shown the ...