The aim of the following report is to outline the content of the lectures given during the First IAOA Interdisciplinary Summer School on Ontological Analysis (July 16–20, 2012, Trento, Italy). The report emphasizes some of the hot topics or open questions discussed during the sessions, while reflecting a variety of perspectives on the goals of ontological analysis and the importance of interdis...

2014 Through the description of three new series of polar compounds with a cyano or a nitro terminal group we progress in the generalization of the (x, T) binary diagrams dealing with bilayered fluid smectic phases. New arguments are put forward concerning the conspicuousness of the SAd-S A2 transition according to the structure of the SAd phase. For the second time a SA2~ SC2~ S? bilayer seque...

A large number of interesting organocatalytic enantioselective protocols have been explored and successfully applied in the last decade. Among them, the Henry (nitroaldol) reaction represents a powerful carbon-carbon bond-forming procedure for the preparation of valuable synthetic intermediates, such as enantioenriched nitro alcohols, which can be further transformed in a number of important ni...

The (re)founding conference of the European chapter of the World Association of Community Broadcasters (AMARC) took place in Bucharest, Romania, in December 2008 (http:// www.amarc.org/conference_europe/index.html). About 60 community media practitioners from 18 countries in Eastern, Central and Western Europe, took part in the four-day meeting. Items on the agenda included the debate on curren...

How do you think the June 4th movement of 1989 will be remembered----as another May 4th 1919, the threshold of a period of general political awakening and turbulence, or instead as a Chinese version of 1848 or 1968 in Europe: a last spontaneous explosion of idealistic revolt, followed by a headlong pursuit of material consumption, and complacent institutional stabilization----the very opposite ...

This paper presents an extensive data-based analysis of the non-profit democratic hospitality exchange service bewelcome.org. We hereby pursuit the goal of determining the factors influencing its growth. It also provides general insights on internet-based hospitality exchange services. The other investigated services are hospitalityclub.org and couchsurfing.org. Communities using the three serv...

We prove that the robber can evade (that is, stay at least unit distance from) at least bn/5.889c cops patroling an n × n continuous square region, that a robber can always evade a single cop patroling a square with side length 4 or larger, and that a single cop on patrol can always capture the robber in a square with side length smaller than 2.189 · · · .