Complexity Digest 2001.21

21-May-2001

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  1. Understanding Complex Systems, Video Conference Report
    1. Resuscitated 'Alien' Microbes Stir Up An Italian Storm, Nature
  2. Swarm Intelligence: A Whole New Way To Think About Business, Harvard Business Rev
  3. Evolutionary Psychology, HMS Beagle
  4. The Bugs Of War, Nature
    1. Talks Inching Ahead On Monitoring '72 Germ Warfare Pact, NYTimes
  5. How Viruses Spread Among Computers And People, Science
  6. Array System Promises Global Atmospheric Monitoring, Nature
  7. Record Salmon Populations Disguise Uncertain Future, Nature
  8. Psychology And International Relations Theory, Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci.
  9. Biology And Politics: Linking Nature And Nurture, Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci.
  10. Californian Labs Feel The Heat Of Energy Crisis, Nature
  11. 'Chocolate-Like' Food Addiction In Moth Larvae, Cornell Press Release
  12. The Webmind AI Engine - A True Digital Mind In The Making, Dynamical Psychology
  13. A Theory Of Pragmatic Information and Its Application To The Quasispecies Model Of Biological Evolution, arXiv
  14. Semidirect Structure From Motion, UCLA VisionLab Preprint
    1. Why Did We Think We Dreamed In Black and White?, CogPrints
  15. Controlling Chemical Turbulence By Global Delayed Feedback, Science
  16. Watching Turbulence With A Particle-Physics Detector, Physics Today
  17. Xenotransplantation Gains Momentum, HMS Beagle
  18. Can Genes Explain Biological Complexity?, Science
    1. New Genomes Shed Light On Complex Cells, Science
  19. Book Report: Complexities Of A Controversial Practice, Science
  20. Links & Snippets
    1. Other Articles
    2. TheScientificWorld Pub Alert: "Complexity"
    3. Announcements

  1. Understanding Complex Systems, Video Conference Report Next Article Bookmark and Share

    According to the organizers, this symposium was intended to be a small, one-day symposium without much lead-time and advertisement. This short time-scale for the preparation of the symposium would have been absolutely impossible without the Internet as vehicle for communication and information sharing.

    The response to the informal announcement, however, was so strong that the presentations had to be split into several parallel sessions. We had originally intended to webcast all presentations. Due to technical limitations (only one camera) we could only include thirteen out of the forty presentations. The selection does not necessarily reflect the quality of the talks but much more the constraints of spatio-temporal arrangements of parallel sessions. The strong response to the symposium announcement demonstrates the academic interest in the field of complexity. The symposium itself demonstrated wonderfully the limitations of traditional conferences in the age of the Internet: Some more specialized presentations ended up with an audience number of "order one". We hope that webcasting those talks will make the content available not only to all those who could not physically attend the conference but also to those who missed the talks due to timing conflict of parallel sessions.

    Most of the talks were recorded on digital video and then converted to RealMedia format (you need a (free) RealPlayer to view the videos). In the two cases where we had visuals of the talk available ahead of time (A. Hunt, G. Mayer-Kress) we tried the RealPresenter software that allows a better resolution of the visuals but in our cases resulted in unusable quality of the video part.

    We still think that this is a promising technology that we intend to explore in the future. To view the videos please click the titles of the talks. For abstracts and speaker information, please visit the conference website


    1. Resuscitated 'Alien' Microbes Stir Up An Italian Storm, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Abstract: Two Naples scientists claim to have found extraterrestrial bacteria in ancient rocks and meteorites from one of the city's museums.(…) they had brought back to life dried up bacteria, which they believe had been locked up in the rocks for millions of years.

      But most biologists at the meeting were unconvinced that contamination could be ruled out. And they said they were concerned that the authors had bypassed peer review by presenting their findings directly to the academy.


  2. Swarm Intelligence: A Whole New Way To Think About Business, Harvard Business Rev Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: What do ants and bees have to do with business? A great deal, it turns out. Individually, social insects are only minimally intelligent, and their work together is largely self-organized and unsupervised. Yet collectively they're capable of finding highly efficient solutions to difficult problems and can adapt automatically to changing environments. Over the past 20 years, the authors and other researchers have developed rigorous mathematical models to describe this phenomenon, which has been dubbed "swarm intelligence," and they are now applying them to business. Their research has already helped several companies develop more efficient ways to schedule factory equipment, divide tasks among workers, organize people, and even plot strategy.

  3. Evolutionary Psychology, HMS Beagle Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Evolutionary theories of depression attempt the difficult task of explaining why such a debilitating disorder could at one time have been advantageous. They also might offer insights into new treatments.(…)

    "Depression makes people feel inferior," says Price. "It makes them feel that a low rank is appropriate [so that they behave accordingly]. The important thing to grasp is that the basis of mood change is to alter strategies of escalation and de-escalation in competitions."(…)

    Depression can be adaptive, Price says, when it removes an animal or person from a losing situation. By showing signs of submission and withdrawal, the animal can avoid the danger of being injured by a dominant individual and can wait to fight for resources or mates until it has a better chance of winning.


  4. The Bugs Of War, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: (…) is developing an Internet-based system to detect early signs of bioweapon exposure, irrespective of the agent responsible. The idea behind the Rapid Syndrome Validation Project is that doctors would enter details of unusual symptoms or disease outbreaks into the system. Neural network software would then be used to identify suspicious outbreaks of disease, without the need to wait for diagnostic laboratory data.

    (…) techniques that could produce bioweapons are also being deployed to set up countermeasures against them.


    1. Talks Inching Ahead On Monitoring '72 Germ Warfare Pact, NYTimes Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: The 1972 biological weapons convention, ratified by 143 countries, bans the development, production and stockpiling of bacteriological and toxin weapons. Although the pact on biological weapons was the first to eliminate a category of arms, no enforcement scheme was provided.

      Finding common ground on setting up a system to detect and deter those who would use biological agents as weapons of mass destruction has proved to be a complex process.

      (…) countries will be hesitant to open their biotechnology facilities to mandatory inspections (…).


  5. How Viruses Spread Among Computers And People, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: The Internet and the world wide web (WWW) play an ever greater part in our lives. Only relatively recently, however, have researchers begun to study how the patterns of connectivity in these networks affect the spread of computer viruses within them and their ability to handle perturbation or attack.(…)

    In striking contrast with the usual models for the spread of infection in human and other populations, they find no threshold for epidemic spread: (…) viruses can spread even when infection probabilities are vanishingly small.


  6. Array System Promises Global Atmospheric Monitoring, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: The six COSMIC microsatellites, scheduled to be launched in mid-2005, will pick up radio signals from 28 existing GPS satellites as they [the signals, not the satellites, Ed.] pass through the Earth's atmosphere. The microsatellites will observe the refraction (or bending) of the signals, and infer information about atmospheric density from it, at all altitudes. From the density data, researchers will be able to deduce the pattern of pressure and temperature.

    "We can also calculate atmospheric moisture near the surface, construct pressure contours, and derive wind fields (…)"'


  7. Record Salmon Populations Disguise Uncertain Future, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Survival rates are also up. Scientists conservatively estimate that more than 21,000 wild chinook salmon, roughly 1.5% of recent years' smolt, will reach spawning grounds this season. This is more than double last year's figure of 8,900 and over 18 times the record low of 1,100 in 1995 (…).

    Survival rates in the past decade had been as low as 0.04%.

    (…)picture is far more complex than this. "Our analyses point to serious extinction risks, but also to considerable opportunities for recovery if improvements are made (…)"


  8. Psychology And International Relations Theory, Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci. Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: Organized around several major theoretical traditions in international relations, this essay suggests which literature in psychology should be of greatest interest to different kinds of international relations scholars. New work in cognitive social psychology and behavioral decision theory simultaneously expands on and qualifies earlier error-and-bias portraits of the foreign policy maker, thereby enriching our understanding of internal divisions within the realist camp. Work on bounded rationality in competitive markets and mixed-motive games, as well as the literature on the power of human emotions to shape judgments of what represents an equitable allocation of scarce resources or a just resolution of conflicts of interest, can inform neo-institutionalist and constructivist theories. Developments in cross-cultural social psychology shed light on constructivist arguments about the creation and maintenance of international social order that typically rest on assumptions about decision making that are qualitatively different from realist and institutionalist approaches to world politics.

  9. Biology And Politics: Linking Nature And Nurture, Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci. Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: Although millions of Americans take psychoactive medicines (e.g. Prozac and Ritalin), few social scientists believe biological theories and findings should be integrated with research on human behavior. Four topics illustrate current studies linking politics and the life sciences: (a) Developments in genetics and medicine indicate that governmental policies have greatly underrated the dangers posed by radiation and the social transformations that will result from DNA sequencing. (b) Research on brain structures and neurochemistry shows how toxic chemicals undermine normal emotions and behavior. Heavy metal burdens are higher in violent criminals, and exposure to these toxins is significantly correlated with rates of violence (controlling for socioeconomic, ethnic, and demographic factors). (c) An untested chemical used to treat water supplied to 140 million Americans significantly increases both odds of dangerous lead uptake and behavioral dysfunctions in children and adults. (d) The complexity of gene-environment interactions challenges accepted theories of gender, sociopolitical inequalities, ethnocentrism, and history. Such research in biopolitics can illuminate policy controversies in education, substance abuse, and crime.

  10. Californian Labs Feel The Heat Of Energy Crisis, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: The power cuts are likely to play havoc with long-planned experimental schedules. Cuts without warning may damage expensive equipment and could even endanger staff, say officials, who are appealing to the state to restore their exempted status.

    So far the PUC [California Public Utilities Commission, Ed.] has not issued a decision. "It is a very chaotic situation," says particle physicist Pier Oddone, deputy director of the Lawrence Berkeley laboratory, where the equipment likely to be affected includes the Advanced Light Source.

    Editor's note: One would expect that large power consumers like big research facilities would be prime candidates for co-generation of electricity and thermal energy. Instead of draining energy from the net, the labs could actually contribute to the power generation.


  11. 'Chocolate-Like' Food Addiction In Moth Larvae, Cornell Press Release Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: (...) The larvae of Manduca sexta, a moth nicknamed the tobacco hornworn,can become so chemically dependent on one of their favorite foods--the leaves of eggplant, potato or tomato plants--that they would rather starve to death than eat leaves from other plants. (...) "When the hornworm larva feeds on plants from the nightshade family, its taste receptors become tuned to the plant chemical Indioside D, a steroidal glycoside compound that is made of a steroid unit and the sugars glucose, rhamnose and galactose. The receptors increase their responsiveness to this chemical, while maintaining low responses to other plant compounds," says del Campo. (...) If the larvae grow up eating nothing but nightshade plant leaves, that is all they will eat, the researchers found. When the leaves were taken away, most of the larvae starved to death within two or three days. Interestingly, if the larvae mature while eating any other food, the addiction does not set in. How can a larva distinguish between the nightshade family and other leaves? On the outside of the larval mouth there are four taste structures called sensilla styloconica, which the animal uses as something like a tongue to taste food. But whereas the human tongue is inside the mouth, the sensilla sit on the outside the larva's mouth. Within each of the sensilla there are four specialized taste receptors that chemically scan the surfaces of leaves to seek out their identity.

  12. The Webmind AI Engine - A True Digital Mind In The Making, Dynamical Psychology Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Even before digital computers were built, people tried to create intelligent machines. Ever since there has been much debate around the possibility of machines being able to show intelligence, perhaps caused by the diversity of concepts of "intelligence" that different people have. At the present moment, there have been made systems capable of exhibiting "simple" intelligence, similar to the one found in animals, or very specialized human intelligence. But, although there have been several projects for achieving it, there is no system capable of exhibiting intelligence at a "human level".

    This work describes a project for developing a system capable of "artificial superintelligence": The Webmind AI Engine. The theory is interesting and congruent, but will the Webmind team achieve the so searched "real" AI? Only time will tell. If they achieve it, it will be great. And if they do not achieve it, we can learn from the accuracies and mistakes.


  13. A Theory Of Pragmatic Information and Its Application To The Quasispecies Model Of Biological Evolution, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: By now, it is a cliche in information theory that the usual (Shannon) measure of information and its generalizations refer merely to the reduction in uncertainty resulting from the receipt of a message, and not to the meaning that the uncertainty reduction has to the receiver. This dichotomy between the amount of information contained in a message and the meaning of that information was, in some ways, a conceptual advance, because the amount of uncertainty removed by a particular message, and thus the amount of information necessary to remove that uncertainty, are easily measured. For many problems, most notably in the area of communication theory, one is indeed interested only in the amount of information, and not in its semantic content. However, in disciplines such as evolutionary theory, the semantic content of the information is all-important. Indeed, the theory of natural selection postulates that it is the variability in the semantic value of genetic information that is the driving force for the entire evolutionary process.

  14. Semidirect Structure From Motion, UCLA VisionLab Preprint Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: Reconstructing three-dimensional structure and motion is often decomposed into two steps: point feature correspondence and three-dimensional reconstruction. This separation often causes gross errors since correspondence relies on the brightness constancy constraint that is local in space and time. Therefore, we advocate the necessity to integrate visual information not only in time (i.e. across different views), but also in space, by matching regions - rather than points - using explicit photometric deformation models. We present an algorithm that integrates 2D region tracking and 3D motion estimation into a closed loop based on an explicit geometric and photometric model, while detecting and rejecting outlier regions that do not fit the model. Our algorithm is recursive and suitable for real-time implementation. Our experiments show that it far exceeds the accuracy and robustness of point feature-based SFM algorithms.

    1. Why Did We Think We Dreamed In Black and White?, CogPrints Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Abstract:In the 1950's, dream researchers commonly thought that dreams were predominantly a black-and-white phenomenon, although both earlier and later treatments of dreaming presume or assert that dreams have color. The first half of the twentieth century saw the rise of black-and-white film media, and it is likely that the emergence of the view that dreams are black-and-white was connected with this change in media technology. If our opinions about basic features of our dreams can change with changes in technology, it seems to follow that our knowledge of the phenomenology of our own dreams is much less secure than we might at first have thought it to be.


  15. Controlling Chemical Turbulence By Global Delayed Feedback, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Control of spatiotemporal chaos is one of the central problems of nonlinear dynamics. We report on suppression of chemical turbulence by global delayed feedback using, as an example, catalytic carbon monoxide oxidation on a platinum (110) single-crystal surface and carbon monoxide partial pressure as the controlled feedback variable. When feedback intensity was increased, spiral-wave turbulence was transformed into new intermittent chaotic regimes with cascades of reproducing and annihilating local structures on the background of uniform oscillations. (…) These findings are reproduced by theoretical simulations.

  16. Watching Turbulence With A Particle-Physics Detector, Physics Today Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: (...) There are two distinct ways to observe fluid flow: In the Eulerian approach, one watches the fluid flow past a specific point in space, whereas in the Lagrangian approach, one follows a specific fluid element as it is carried along. The Lagrangian view is much favored by theorists who model such phenomena as fluid mixing or the dispersal of contaminants, but laboratory data of the Eulerian type have been much easier to obtain. (...)


  17. Xenotransplantation Gains Momentum, HMS Beagle Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Xenotransplantation, the process of transplanting organs or cells from another species, such as pigs, into humans, has been touted over the past few years as a viable solution to the increasing shortage of human donor organs. Scientists have also been researching its potential to treat a variety of diseases such as cystic fibrosis, neurological disorders, and diabetes.

    (…) The major barrier to the technology is rejection by the human immune response, and scientists are experimenting with genetic modification of animal cells to make them more acceptable to the human immune system.


  18. Can Genes Explain Biological Complexity?, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Although natural selection does not guarantee that organisms will increase in complexity as they evolve (…) in terms of morphological or behavioral complexity, or the variety of cell types in an organism--the term itself is notoriously hard to define.

    (…)two forms of genomic complexity: one measured by the number of genes and the other by the connectivity of gene-regulation networks.(…)

    Delegated complexity, achieved by genetically encoded information-processing systems such as the nervous and immune systems of vertebrates, adds another dimension to biological complexity.


    1. New Genomes Shed Light On Complex Cells, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Yeast, fungi, and all multicellular organisms--from plants to humans--are eukaryotes, with complex cells that have discrete subunits, such as the nucleus and mitochondria, to help with various tasks. For decades, cell biologists have studied yeast, simple, one-celled organisms, for insights into how they and more complex eukaryotes work.(…)

      Eukaryote-only genes (…) encode proteins involved in the spatial organization of the cell (…) help move molecules (…) code for proteins that organize chromosomes within the nucleus or regulate cell division (…)


  19. Book Report: Complexities Of A Controversial Practice, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: These two books consider social, historical, political, and public health aspects of female "circumcision." The authors include women from countries where the practice is prevalent. (…)

    Discussions of efforts to fight the practice call into question some of the strategies that are thought to be effective. Lynn Thomas' historical chapter shows that legal bans in Kenya resulted in mass circumcisions and many dramatic instances of adolescent girls cutting themselves in protest. Claudie Gosselin's analysis of a campaign in Mali finds that the majority of the population is unconvinced about harmful consequences, in part because of exaggerations by local campaigners.

    • Complexities Of A Controversial Practice, Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer, Science 2001 292: 1305
    • Female "Circumcision" in Africa Culture, Controversy, and Change, Bettina Shell-Duncan and Ylva Hernlund, Eds. Lynne Rienner, Boulder, CO, 2000.
    • The Female Circumcision Controversy An Anthropological Perspective, Ellen Gruenbaum, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia,

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      1. The Science Of Climate Change, Joint Statement P. 1261
      2. Contrast-Dependent Nonlinearities Arise Locally In A Model Of Contrast-Invariant Orientation Tuning, Andrew Kayser, Nicholas J. Priebe, Kenneth D. Miller, J. Neurophysiol. 2001 May 1; 85(5): P. 2130-2149
      3. Mixtures Of Octopamine And Serotonin Have Nonadditive Effects On The Cns Of The Medicinal Leech, Karen A. Mesce, Kevin M. Crisp, And Laura S. Gilchrist, J. Neurophysiol. 2001 May 1; 85(5): P. 2039-2046
      4. Transient Dynamics And Food-Web Complexity In The Lotka-Volterra Cascade Model, Chen X And Cohen Je Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2001 Apr 22 268(1469): P. 869-77
      5. Nonlinear Dynamics Of Heart Rate Variability In Cocaine-Exposed Neonates During Sleep, Smita Garde, Michael G. Regalado, Vicki L. Schechtman, And Michael C. K. Khoo, Ajp: Heart 2001 June 1; 280(6): P. H2920-H2928
      6. Localization And Globalization In Conscious Vision, Zeki, S, Annu. Rev. Neurosci. 2001 24: P. 57-86
      7. Mechanical Stress Is Communicated Between Different Cell Types To Elicit, Matrix Remodeling, M. A. Swartz, D. J. Tschumperlin, R. D. Kamm, and J. M. Drazen, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA published 15 May 2001,10.1073/PNAS.111133298
      8. A Dendrodendritic Reciprocal Synapse Provides A Recurrent Excitatory Connection In The Olfactory Bulb, Anne Didier, Alan Carleton, Jan G. Bjaalie, Jean-Didier Vincent, Ole Petter Ottersen, Jon Storm-Mathisen, and Pierre-Marie Lledo, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA published 15 May 2001, 10.1073/PNAS.101126398
      9. Theories Of Delegation, J. Bendor, A. Glazer, T. Hammond, Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci. 2001 January 1; 4(1): P. 235-269
      10. Political Consequences Of Minority Group Formation, M. Hechter, D. Okamoto, Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci. 2001 January 1; 4(1): P. 189-215

    2. TheScientificWorld Pub Alert: "Complexity" Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. A New Look At Computation Of The Complexity Index In Mangroves: Do Disturbed Forests Have Clues To Analyze Canopy Height Patchiness?, Blanco, J. F.; Bejarano, A. C.; Lasso, J.; Cantera, J. R., Wetlands Ecology And Management
      2. Infeasible-Interior-Point Algorithm For A Class Of Nonmonotone Complementarity Problems And Its Computational Complexity, He, S.; Xu, C., Science In China Series A Mathematics Physics Astronomy
      3. The Brains Behind Intelligent Optical Networks Increasingly Complex Optical Networks Require A New Level Of Management Intelligence, Unknown Author, Americas Network
      4. Designs Of Counters With Near Minimal Counting/Sampling Period And Hardware Complexity, Yeh, C.-H.; Parhami, B.; Wang, Y., Asilomar Conference On Signals Systems And Computers
      5. A Family Of Linear Complexity Likelihood Ascent Search Multiuser Detectors For Cdma Communications, Sun, Y., Asilomar Conference On Signals Systems And Computers
      6. A Novel Low Complexity And Efficient Progressive Quadtree Wavelet Encoder, Grangetto, M.; Magli, E.; Olmo, G., Asilomar Conference On Signals Systems And Computers
      7. Stimulated Annealing Ray Tracing In Complex Three-Dimensional Media, Velis, D. R.; Ulrych, T. J., Geophysical Journal International
      8. Next Generation Software Systems Provide Tools For Handling Complexity Of Billing Codes, Mcgahey, Journal Of Medical Practice Management
      9. Whispering Gallery Method Of Measuring Complex Permittivity In Highly Anisotropic Materials: Discovery Of A New Type Of Mode In Anisotropic Dielectric Resonators, Tobar, M. E.; Hartnett, J. G.; Ivanoy, E. N.; Blondy, P.; Cros, D., Ieee Transactions On Instrumentation And Measurement
      10. Microgrids Are Also Dependent On Clever Networking - This Time Of Power Assets. Power Network Monitoring Based On Phasor Measurement Units Has The Potential To Solve The Increasingly Complex Issues Facing Utilities, Unknown Author, Abb Review
      11. The Media And Nationalism In Quebec: A Complex Relationship, Hazel, K.-J., Journalism Studies
      12. Complex Study Of The Tongue Mucosa For Personality Identification, Pashinyan, G. A.; Gazhva, S. I., Sudebno-Meditsinskaia Ekspertiza -Moskva-
      13. 3-D Numerical Similation Of Complex Shaped Casting Solidification Process With Finite Element Method, Sun, K., Foundry Technology
      14. Sea Change For Cosmetics The Complex Regulations Governing Cosmetics In Japan Have Finally Been Revised, Unknown Author, Soap Perfumery And Cosmetics
      15. Optoelectronic Computer-Aided Systems For Three-Dimensional Inspection Of Complex Objects [4189-38], Galiulin, R. M.; Ilyasov, B. G.; Galiulin, R. M.; Bakirov, J. M.; Bogdanov, D. R.; Tumashinov, A. V.; Petrov, S. V.; Yudin, A. A.; Vorontsov, A. V.; Ponomarenko, I. V., Proceedings- Spie The International Society For Optical Engineering
      16. Simple And Complex Gift Exchange In The Laboratory, Van Der Heijden, E. C. M.; Nelissen, J. H. M.; Potters, J. J. M.; Verbon, H. A. A., Economic Inquiry
      17. First-Principles Studies On Some Complex Materials, Zhu, Z.-Z., Journal- Xiamen University Natural Science
      18. The 1/R2 Integrable System: A Universal Hamiltonian For "Complex" Level Dynamics, Shukla, P., Aip Conference Proceedings
      19. Research On The Evaluation Indexes For Complex Systems, Zeng, Z.-X.; Li, Y.-S., Journal- Hebei University Of Technology
      20. Complex Radiation Diagnosis Of Renal Tuberculosis, Sokolov, V. A.; Kartashov, M. V.; Piven, A. I., Problemy Tuberkuleza
      21. Home Networks Wired Or Wireless, Networking Can Be Complex, But We're Here To Help With This Month's Pcwexpert, Which Includes Some Great Workshops To Get You Networked, Unknown Author, Personal Computer World
      22. Transient Pseudohypoaldosteronism With Complex Malformation Of Internal Genitalia. A Case Report, Iliev, D. I.; Petruch, U. R.; Ranke, M. B.; Binder, G.; Leriche, C.; Strothek, G.; Wollmann, H. A., Hormone Research
      23. Target Discrimination In Complex Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery, Cooke, T.; Redding, N. J.; Schroeder, J.; Zhang, J., Asilomar Conference On Signals Systems And Computers
      24. Multi-Parametric Deformed Heisenberg Algebras: A Route To Complexity, Curado, E. M. F.; Rego-Monteiro, M. A., Journal Of Physics -London- A Mathematical And General
      25. The Effect Of Distal Learning, Outcome, And Proximal Goals On A Moderately Complex Task, Seijts, G. H.; Latham, G. P., Journal Of Organizational Behavior
      26. Linear Complexity Of Polylinear Sequences, Kurakin, V. L., Discrete Mathematics And Applications
      27. Complex Periodic Orbits, Renormalization, And Scaling For Quasiperiodic Golden-Mean Transition To Chaos, Ivankov, N. Y.; Kuznetsov, S. P., Physical Review -Series E-
      28. Resolution-Based Complexity Control For Gaussian Mixture Models, Meinicke (Peter); Ritter (Helge), Neural Computation.
      29. Particle-Counterion Clustering In Highly Charge-Asymmetric Complex Fluids, Fernandez-Nieves, A.; Fernandez-Barbero, A.; De Las Nieves, F. J., Physical Review -Series E-
      30. Supply Chain Management In The Context Of International Humanitarian Assistance In Complex Emergencies - Part 2, Mcguire, G., Supply Chain Practice
      31. Finite Element Modeling And Simulation Of Welding. Part 1 : Increased Complexity, Lindgren (Lars-Erik), Journal Of Thermal Stresses
      32. Algebraic Analysis For Nonidentifiable Learning Machines, Watanabe (Sumio), Neural Computation
      33. Randomised Trials Of Socially Complex Interventions: Promise Or Peril?, Wolff, N., Journal Of Health Services Research And Policy
      34. Within-Occupation Sources Of Variance In Incumbent Perception Of Job Complexity, Ganzach (Yoav); Pazy (Asya), Journal Of Occupational And Organizational Psychology
      35. Towards An Energy Complexity Of Computation, Martin (Alain J.), Information Processing Letters
      36. Average-Case Complexity Of Elementary Boolean Functions, Chashkin, A. V., Discrete Mathematics And Applications
      37. Procedures For Evaluating The Impact Of Complex Educational Interventions, Venezky, R. L., Journal Of Science Education And Technology
      38. Parallel Image Restoration With Domain Decomposition, Loli Piccolomini (E.); Zama (F.), Real-Time Imaging : (Print)
      39. An Application Of Artificial Neural Networks For Rainfall Forecasting, Luk (Kin C.); Ball (J. E.); Sharma (A.); Mcdonald (A. David); Beer (Tom), Mathematical And Computer Modelling
      40. Complexity Pursuit : Separating Interesting Components From Time Series, Hyvärinen (Aapo), Neural Computation
      41. Expected Shape Of Regressions For Ground-Motion Parameters On Rock, Anderson (John G.); Field (Edward H.),
      42. Complexity And Diversity Of Klebsiella Pneumoniae Strains With Extended-Spectrum B-Lactamases Isolated In 1994 And 1996 At A Teaching Hospital In Durban, South Africa, Essack (Sabiha Y.); Hall (Lucinda M. C.); Pillay (Devadas G.); Mcfadyen (Margaret Lynn); Livermore (David M.), Antimicrobial Agents And Chemotherapy
      43. Multiple Levels Of Symmetry Breaking, Talagrand (Michel), Probability Theory And Related Fields
      44. An Optical Interconnection Network For Terabit Ip Routers, Chao (H. Jonathan); Wang (Ti-Shiang), Journal Of Lightwave Technology
      45. Thermal Comfort In Cabs : A Technical Challenge And A Marketing Tool, Cisternino (Maurizio), Ingénieurs De L'automobile : (Paris)
      46. New Mathematical Techniques For The Optimisation Of Oil & Gas Production Systems, Handley-Schachler (Sybille); Mckie (Calum); Quintero (Nylian)
      47. Speeding Up Hiln-Mpeg-4 Parametric Audio Encoding With Reduced Complexity, Purnhagen, H.; Meine, N.; Edler, B., Preprints- Audio Engineering Society
      48. Complexity In Embedded Intelligent Real Time Systems, Coskun, E.; Grabowski, M., Proceedings Of The International Conference On Information Systems
      49. A Cool Way To Complex Parts, Leu (Ming C.), Materials World
      50. Synergistic Suppressive Effect Of Double Transfection Of Tumor Necrosis Factor-A And Interleukin 12 Genes On Tumorigenicity Of Meth-A Cells, Fujiwara (Hitoshi); Yamauchi (Naofumi); Sato (Yasushi); Sasaki (Katsunori); Takahashi (Minoru); Okamoto (Tetsuro); Sato (Tsutomu); Iyama (Satoshi); Koshita (Yoshikazu); Hirayama (Michiaki); Yamagishi (Hisakazu); Niitsu (Yoshiro), Japanese Journal Of Cancer Research
      51. What Are The Baselines For Protein Fold Recognition?, Mcguffin (Liam J.); Bryson (Kevin); Jones (David T.), Bioinformatics : (Oxford. Print)
      52. Urban Forest Landscapes In The Uk : Progressing The Social Agenda, Coles (R. W.); Bussey (S. C.); Randrup (Thomas B.); Konijnendijk (Cecil C.), Landscape And Urban Planning
      53. Integrated High Technology Of Formation Evaluation And Directional Drilling - Key Inputs For Well Placement In A Complex Structural Environment: A Case Study, Van Den Bosch (R. H.); Meier (L. P.); Rohde (U.); Frass (M.), Orbit Complexity And Data Compression, Galatolo, S., Discrete And Continuous Dynamical Systems
      54. Cognitive Complexity And The Validity Of Clinicians' Judgments, Garb, H. N.; Lutz, C., Assessment -Odessa-
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