Testing Factors that Affect Growth in Fish Central to good science are accurate observations, testable hypotheses, well-designed experiments or other tests, and reasonable data analyses. The purpose of Laboratory 1 is to introduce you to the basics of designing and analyzing experiments. The following two laboratory exercises will provide you with further steps in organizing and analyzing data....

XML itself does not support hypermedia, but the XLink standard has been defined to make XML usable for hypermedia. One of XLinks most interesting features is its support for external links and linkbases, which makes it possible to create links between resources without having to change the resources. In order to use these links, user agents must access linkbases and query them for relevant link...

Organizing Lobar Pneumonia is a rare form of Bronchiolitis Obliterans Organizing Pneumonia.  Herein, we report a rare case of organizing pneumonia involving lung, mediastinum and esophagus.  A 16-year-old girl was referred to our center with clinical signs and symptoms of dysphagia and weight loss.  The main abnormal radiologic and endoscopic findings were stricture of the lower third of esopha...

Complex systems are usually difficult to design and control. There are several particular methods for coping with complexity, but there is no general approach to build complex systems. In this thesis I propose a methodology to aid engineers in the design and control of complex systems. This is based on the description of systems as self-organizing. Starting from the agent metaphor, the methodol...

vii 1. Why Should We Worry about Decentralization? 1 2. Decentralization: A Complex Phenomenon 4 Why Is Decentralization Happening? 4 What Is Decentralization? 4 What Are the Implications of Decentralization? 6 Successful Decentralization Depends on Institution-Specific Design 7 3. Designing Decentralization: The Building Blocks of Fiscal Federalism 10 Assigning Expenditure Responsibilities 10 ...

A General Retrospective Olaf Zimmermann: How did your book come to be? How did you get together, and how did you nd your contributors and reviewers? Bobby Woolf: Martin Fowler was the matchmaker. When he wrote Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture,2 Kyle Brown pointed out that his pattern language was not addressing asynchronous messaging. Martin felt that he already had plenty of pat...

This research presents a method to build large-scale agent-based modeling and simulation on PC for large-scale social systems with complex social networks. The novelty of this method is reflected in both designing of individual agent and organizing a group of agents for interactions on a large scale. As a case study, we constructed a large-scale artificial city Beijing, on which to test policie...