W eb browsers have become the de facto standard user interface to a variety of applications. They can run on almost any platform—from PCs and workstations to PDAs, cell phones, and pagers—and allow end-users to access Web-enabled applications from any location. Applied to embedded systems, Web technologies offer graphical user interfaces that are user friendly, inexpensive, cross-platform, and ...

A simple, solvent-free, one-pot autoxidative coupling reaction between quinoline and indoles or pyrroles is reported. This atom economic method requires only a stoichiometric amount of inexpensive hydrochloric acid and does not require a catalyst.

The authors used the National Death Index and a World Wide Web Internet site that searches the Social Security Administration master files of deaths to determine the mortality status of 1,000 US subjects from the College Alumni Health Study. Subjects were classified as definitely dead, possibly dead, or presumed alive. Of 246 definite deaths pinpointed by the National Death Index, the World Wid...