Bieberians at the Gate?
Date: December 10, 2012
Creator: Frodeman, Robert; Holbrook, J. Britt & Briggle, Adam
Description: In this article, the authors discuss the idea that non-philosophers should judge philosophers. As universities face growing demands for academic accountability, philosophers ought to take the lead in exploring what accountability means. Otherwise we may be stuck with Dickens's Mr. Gradgrind. ("Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts along are wanted in life.") But a philosophical account of accountability will also require redefining the boundaries of what counts as philosophy.
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ASI conference presentations: a content analysis of major topics, 1997-2012
Date: December 2012
Creator: Sassen, Catherine
Description: In this article, the author discusses the American Society for Indexing (ASI) conference presentations. The ASI holds annual conferences to keep members informed of new developments in indexing technology and the expanding role of indexing (ASI, 2012). Conferences also facilitate communication among members, provide educational opportunities, and raise awareness of quality indexing. The purpose of this article is to identify major topics discussed at ASI conferences from 1997 through 2012 and to explore how the topics have changed over time. ASI conference programs reflect topics of interest to indexers, and thus provide insight into concerns of the profession at large.
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Recent Foolery in the Periodic Table
Date: Winter 2011
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
Description: Article which satirically claims that several elements on the periodic table were faked.
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Rediscovery of the Elements: Thallium, Crookes, and Lamy
Date: Winter 2011
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
Description: Article describing the nearly simultaneous discovery of thallium by William Crookes and Claude-August Lamy. Tourist information is included for areas in London, England, and Lille, France, that are significant to the lives of these two men.
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The Success Of A Nation's Soccer Team: A Bellwether Regarding A Nation's Electronic Information Infrastructure, The Legal Regulations That Govern The Infrastructure, The Resulting Citizen-Trust In Its Government And Its E-Readiness In Nigeria, The DPRK, China, Japan, South Korea, The Netherlands And The United States
Date: December 1, 2012
Creator: Helge, Kris
Description: This article discusses a bellwether regarding a nation's electronic information infrastructure, the legal regulations that govern the infrastructure, the resulting citizen-trust in its government and its e-readiness in Nigeria, the DPRK, China, Japan, South Korea, the Netherlands and the United States. Information technology infrastructures should be designed with cutting-edge equipment that offers citizens consistent and dependable access to necessary and pertinent information. The infrastructures should be held accountable and regulated by a well-established legal system. Additionally, the infrastructures should create a body politic that trusts its government, is aware of its nation's laws, regulations, and policies, and is motivated to contribute and participate positively in the national economy and political process. In modern societies, the most efficacious means in which a nation-state can create an information infrastructure is via electronic technology ("e-technology"). Some nation-states are currently better prepared than others to provide information to their citizens via e-technologies, and some are more willing to provide a free exchange of electronic information. An assessment of how well a nation can disseminate freely accessible, valid, and reliable information, and how willing nations are to provide complete, accurate, and open information via e-technologies is defined as "e-readiness." Scholars have posited numerous models to ...
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Cooperation in neural systems: Bridging complexity and periodicity
Date: November 29, 2012
Creator: Zare, Marzieh & Grigolini, Paolo
Description: This article discusses cooperation in neural systems. Abstract: Inverse power law distributions are generally interpreted as a manifestation of complexity, and waiting time distributions with power index μ < 2 reflect the occurrence of ergodicity-breaking renewal events. In this paper we show how to combine these properties with the apparently foreign clocklike nature of biological processes. We use a two-dimensional regular network of leaky integrate-and-fire neurons, each of which is linked to its four nearest neighbors, to show that both complexity and periodicity are generated by locality breakdown: Links of increasing strength have the effect of turning local interactions into long-range interactions, thereby generating time complexity followed by time periodicity. Increasing the density of neuron firings reduces the influence of periodicity, thus creating a cooperation-induced renewal condition that is distinctly non-Poissonian.
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Networking of psychophysics, psychology, and neurophysiology
Date: November 5, 2012
Creator: West, Bruce J. & Grigolini, Paolo
Description: This article focuses on dynamic networking and dynamic networks in complex research on psychophysics, psychology, and neurophysiology. It states that new ways were suggested by dynamic networking and dynamic networks to transfer information utilizing the long-distance communication through local cooperative interaction. It says that the fluctuations in brain and social dynamics reveal the emergence of complex behavior when analyzed with advanced methods of fractal statistical analysis.
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O generalizare a problemei piesei de 5 lei a lui Ţiţeica
Date: November 2012
Creator: Anghel, Nicolae
Description: The '5 lei coin' problem of Titeica is generalized to circles of arbitrary radii.
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Rediscovery of the Elements: Hafnium
Date: Autumn 2011
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
Description: Article describing the search for element 72, the scientists involved, and the nationalist politics surrounding the discovery. Tourist information is included for areas significant to the history of hafnium.
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Linear response at criticality
Date: October 24, 2012
Creator: Svenkeson, Adam; Bologna, Mauro & Grigolini, Paolo
Description: This article discusses a linear response to criticality. Abstract: We study a set of cooperatively interacting units at criticality, and we prove with analytical and numerical arguments that they generate the same renewal non-Poisson intermittency as that produced by blinking quantum dots, thereby giving a stronger support to the results of earlier investigation. By analyzing how this out-of-equilibrium system responds to harmonic perturbations, we find that the response can be described only using only a new form of linear response theory that accounts for aging and the nonergodic behavior of the underlying process. We connect the undamped response of the system at criticality to the decaying response predicted by the recently established nonergodic fluctuation-dissipation theorem for dichotomous processes using information about the second moment of the fluctuations. We demonstrate that over a wide range of perturbation frequencies the response of the cooperative system is greatest when at criticality.
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