There is no doubt the Internet is a wondrous creation. The entire world is rapidly becoming obsessed with it. With the advancement of technology, there was a long felt need to give recognition to the electronic means as an alternative to paper based banking. The internet has made banking and other business transactions a lot easier because money is easily transferred from bank to bank, employer...

Two papers in this issue of Cell describe two roles of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) in modulating chromatin structure: as a structural component replacing linker histone (Kim et al., 2004) and as a constituent of a corepressor complex poised to dismiss repression upon receipt of an activating signal (Ju et al., 2004).

Experience of the clinical application of dialysis for long term replacement of renal function now extends for two decades. The first decade was in general devoted to improving the design of existing equipment to make it safe and suitable for routine use, and the second to conceiving new ideas. However, so far most of the new ideas have found little routine clinical application and the old meth...

In former Chaps. 1~8, multiple areas of optimization-based energy management methods for maritime grids are illustrated in detail. Based on current research, this Chapter focuses future ways grids. At first, defined as a series “multi-energy microgrids involving different networks and undertaking functions” the coordination between/within comprehensively reviewed, i.e., carriers flows, networks...