Ant i id io typ ic an t ibodies have been used in various systems to s tudy bo th the spec t rum of the i m m u n e response (1) and the na tu re of cel lular receptors to ant igens (2). Because of the evidence tha t id io typic de t e rminan t s can be associated wi th the an t igen-combin ing site (3), i d io typy of a n t i b o d y m a y be used as a mi r ro r image for def ining ant igenic ...

This theme-based book review considers three recent titles related to risk and uncertainty: The Dynamics of Risk: Changing Technologies Collective Action in Seismic Events, by Louise K. Comfort; Doom: Politics Catastrophe, Niall Ferguson; Fragile Futures: Uncertain Economics Disasters, Pandemics, Climate Change, Vito Tanzi.

Mit einem neuen Hochdruckfermenter untersucht das belgische Forschungsinstitut Vito, wie technische und wirtschaftliche Hindernisse bei der Umwandlung schwerlöslicher Gase CO2 mit Mikroorganismen überwunden werden können. Erste Ergebnisse zeigen, dass mikrobielle Wachstumsraten die Produktbildung höheren Drücken verbessert

The seminal paper of Caponnetto and de Vito (2007) provides minimax-optimal rates for kernel ridge regression in a very general setting. Its proof, however, contains an error in its bound on the effective dimensionality. In this note, we explain the mistake, provide a correct bound, and show that the main theorem remains true. The mistake lies in Proposition 3’s bound on the effective dimension...