In memoriam Csörgő Sándor, dear friend and great scholar Keywords: Bessel function of first kind J ν (z) Bounds for J ν (z) Positive zeros j ν,s of J ν (z) Generalized Kapteyn expansion Kapteyn series a b s t r a c t A new inequality is derived for the Bessel function of the first kind J ν (z), ν ∈ R, and a discussion of the consequent convergence is given for the generalized Kapteyn-type expan...

The aim of this paper is to present a solution of the problem 32 posed by K. Denecke and S.L. Wismath in their book [15]. ∗The results of this paper were partially presented during the conference Trends in Logic III International in memoriam Andrzej Mostowski, Helena Rasiowa, Cecylia Rauszer, Warsaw, September 23, Ruciane-Nida, September 24–25, 2005 and on the 71 Workshop on General Algebra tog...

Allison Doupe Allison Doupe, Professor of Psychiatry and Physiology at UCSF, died on Friday, October 24, 2014 after a long and courageous battle with breast cancer. She was an esteemed leader of UCSF’s neuroscience community and a pioneering systems neuroscientist. She is best known for her research on the detailed neuronal mechanisms involved in birdsong learning and on the relationship of thi...

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Ernst Mayr, Professor Emeritus of the Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology, who died on 3 February 2005 in Bedford, Massachusetts, at the age of 100+, was one of the major evolutionary scholars of our time. Mayr’s life was devoted to understanding the biodiversity of life and its dramatic adaptive evolution. His impact on evolutionary biology was profound and long lasting. He is wid...

1541-1672/17/$33.00 © 2017 IEEE 3 Published by the IEEE Computer Society the area. In particular, the challenge was in developing methodologies that would let researchers not just compare each other’s work in a theoretical sense but that allowed different models of systems to be compared to real-world situations. One of the people who recognized this early on and addressed it both in her writin...

Vernon Mountcastle, who discovered the columnar organization of the cerebral cortex, passed away on January 11, 2015 at home with his family. Mountcastle pioneered the use of microelectrode recording to study brain mechanisms of perception. He defined the field of somatosensory neuroscience, and he initiated the study of higher-order processing in parietal cortex. His contributions were recogni...

Dr Vera Gamulin passed away on October 12, 2006 in Zagreb, just a few days after returning from the HDBMB congress, organized on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the Croatian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. During all that time Vera was its active member. Dr Gamulin was a distinguished Croatian biologist with major research interest in molecular evolution. We will re...

Prof. Paolo Cappa passed away on 26 August 2016, at the age of 59, after a long and courageous fight against cancer. Paolo Cappa was a Professor in Mechanical and Thermal Measurements and Experimental Biomechanics in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of Sapienza University of Rome, where he had also served as the Head of the Department, and a Research Professor in the Depar...

scientifi c community, heard of the death of Xavier Leverve last November 7th. Hundreds of colleagues, friends and family gathered for his funeral in Paris, to remember this exceptional man, one of the leading scientists in the fi eld of metabolism and nutrition. Xavier’s interests were quite wide, covering cellular bioenergetics and substrate metabolism, as well as hypoxia/reoxygenation and ac...