Mrs. Beeton, after her education in Heidelberg, was probably right. You need both ingredients and the place. As said before in this column, the kitchen is a dangerous room for matrimonial harmony (well OK, I must confess that we are not yet living in a caravan. Wiser councils prevailed and in any case our Editor intimated that he didn't want contributions from people who are of no fixed address...

This report concerns an area which is situated half-way between classical numerical analysis and symbolic computation (computer algebra). On the one hand, functions and function space operators constitute explicit objects in the suggested algorithms, on the other hand all relations are eventually projected into some R^ so that only classical computational processes are executed. With a suitable...

Karen Brown and Daniel Gilfoyle (eds), Healing the herds: disease, livestock economies, and the globalization of veterinary medicine, Ecology and History series, Athens, OH, Ohio University Press, 2010, pp. x, 299, £22.50 (paperback 978-0-8214-1885-7). Thomas Bryant, Friedrich Burgdörfer (1890–1967). Eine diskursbiographische Studie zur deutschen Demographie im 20. Jahrhundert, Pallas Athene, B...

Background: Two distinct classes of regulators have been implicated in regulating neuronal gene expression and mediating neuronal identity: transcription factors such as REST/NRSF (RE1 silencing transcription factor) and CREB (cAMP response element-binding protein), and microRNAs (miRNAs). How these two classes of regulators act together to mediate neuronal gene expression is unclear. Results: ...

The aim of this section is to give brief indications of the character, content and cost of new books in the various fields of biology. More books are received by The Quarterly than can be reviewed critically. All submitted books, however, are carefully considered for originality, timeliness, and reader interest, and we make every effort to find a competent and conscientious reviewer for each bo...

Mariola Espinosa, Epidemic invasions: yellow fever and the limits of Cuban independence, 1878–1930, University of Chicago Press, 2009, pp. x, 189, $22.50, £15.50 (paperback 978-0-226-21812-0). Robert Fox (ed.), Thomas Beddoes, 1760–1808, papers of a special issue, Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 63 (3), London, Royal Society Publishing, 2009, pp. 110, £10.00. (Orders to: debbie.vaughan@...

In this position paper we argue that electronic book and document readers (H UHDGHUV) open new avenues for computer supported collaborative work. This position draws on our experience building and e-reading with the XLibris “active reading machine,” a portable pen-based computer specialized for the task of reading, critical thinking, and analysis.

[2] Probabilistic network representations of continuous-time stochastic processes for applications in planning and control. [5] Hierarchical planning involving deadlines, travel time and resources.