ROBERT SAVER: IngeniellT Jl,lathematik. Zweiter Band. Differentialgleichungen und Funktionentheorie, Dritte erweiterte Auflage, Springer, 1968. Berlin, Heidelberg, )\ew York This is the second volume of a textbook of introductory Engineering Mathematics covering roughly the basic course program of the third and fourth semesters in German technical colleges. (The first volume containing differen...

Much has been written about the flight of Hong Kong residents to various western countries in the past few years. The popular fear of political instability, which has caused this flight, stems from the anticipated transfer of Hong Kong's sovereignty from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China ("PRC" or "China") in 1997. If present emigration figures' are used to predict the future...

Background: The need for fast and accurate scoring functions has been driven by the increased use of in silico virtual screening twinned with high-throughput screening as a method to rapidly identify potential candidates in the early stages of drug development. We examine the ability of some the most common scoring functions (GOLD, ChemScore, DOCK, PMF, BLEEP and Consensus) to discriminate corr...

User reviews have become a popular source to assess the quality of products in consumers' purchasing decision. New insights into the effect of user reviews on product sales can be derived from examining review credibility and author popularity in our example of book sales from Amazon.com. We found that (1) average rating of reviews and diversity of ratings positively affect book sales, but (2) ...