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Complexity Digest 2004.03 Jan. 20, 2004

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http://www.phil.pku.edu.cn/resguide/comdig/ (Chinese GB-Code) "I think the
next century will be the
century of complexity." Stephen Hawking

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Content:

01. Kutcher Shows Serious Side in 'Butterfly Effect', Reuters
02. Toward An Integrative Science Of The Person, Ann Rev Psychology
02.01. Self-Knowledge, Annual Review of Psychology
02.02. On Building A Bridge Between Brain And Behavior, Annual Review of
Psychology
02.03. The Psychology And Neuroscience Of Forgetting, Annual Review of
Psychology
02.04. Group Performance And Decision Making, Annual Review of Psychology
02.05. Creativity, Annual Review of Psychology
03. Wound-Healing Genes Influence Cancer Progression, Bio.com
03.01. The Integration Of Pharmacokinetics And Pharmacodynamics:
Understanding Dose-Response,
Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology
03.02. How Enzymes Work: Analysis by Modern Rate Theory and Computer
Simulations, Science
03.03. Stem Cells: How To Make Eggs And Sperm, Nature
04. What Does A Molecule Want? The Myth Of The Self-Replicating Molecule,
Biosystems
05. Climate Change Science: Adapt, Mitigate, or Ignore?, Science
05.01. Widespread Intense Turbulent Mixing in the Southern Ocean, Science
05.02. To Avoid Fuel Limits, Subaru Is Turning a Sedan Into a Truck, NY Times
05.03. Ecology: Clouded Futures, Nature
06. Virus-Based Toolkit for the Directed Synthesis of Magnetic and
Semiconducting Nanowires, Nature
06.01. Synthetic Biology: Microbes Made to Order, Science
06.02. Pig-Human Chimeras Contain Cell Surprise, NewScientist
07. Power Laws in Biological Networks, arXiv
08. Self-organized Patterns and Traffic Flow in Colonies of Organisms: From
Bacteria and Social
Insects to Vertebrates, arXiv
09. Brain Architecture And Social Complexity In Modern And Ancient Birds,
Brain, Behav. & Evol.
09.01. Cortical Orofacial Motor Representation In Old World Monkeys, Great
Apes, And Humans, Brain,
Behav. & Evol.
10. Complexities Of A Simple System: New Lessons, Old Challenges And
Peripheral Questions, Brain
Res. Rev.
11. Transitions to Synchrony in Coupled Bursting Neurons, PRL
11.01. Developmental Biology: Asymmetric Fixation, Nature
12. Computation In Gene Networks, Chaos
13. Multimedia PC With Instant Start-Up Launches, NewScientist
13.01. Wireless Lamp Posts Take Over World!, Newswireless.net
14. Puzzled Monkeys Reveal Key Language Step, NewScientist
15. Closing a Window on the Universe, Washington Post
15.01. NASA Cancels Trip to Supply Hubble, Sealing Early Doom, NYTimes
15.02. Why Hubble Is Being Dropped, BBC News Online
16. Reflectins: The Unusual Proteins of Squid Reflective Tissues, Science
17. A Short-Order Revolutionary, NYTimes
18. Greeting Big Brother With Open Arms, NY Times
18.01. A Classic Tale Updated: Cleric vs. President, Toronto Star
19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
19.01. Mad Cow As Bioterrorism?, The Scientist
19.02. Deep Repositories: Out of Sight, Out of Terrorists' Reach, Science
19.03. Bush's Power to Plan Trial of Detainees Is Challenged, NY Times
19.04. The Justices Take On the President, NYTimes
20. Links & Snippets
20.01. Other Publications
20.02. Webcast Announcements
20.03. Conference & Call for Papers Announcements
20.04. ComDig Announcement: New ComDig Archive in Beta Test

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01. Kutcher Shows Serious Side in 'Butterfly Effect' , Reuters

Excerpt: The basic idea behind "Butterfly Effect" is that decisions create
a wave of consequences
over a lifetime. In the case of Treborn (Kutcher), audiences learn that he
and his best friends are
victimized as kids by a pedophile.

Fast forward to Treborn in college studying the science of the brain. He
stumbles onto his ability
to travel back in time through his memories, and he attempts to return to
his past, confront the
pedophile and change events that took place.
Editor's Note: The  Sundance Online Film Festival  now shows some of the
films over the Internet.
We are interested in learning more about other complexity related films.

* Kutcher Shows Serious Side in 'Butterfly Effect', 04/01/19, Reuters
Contributed by Dean LeBaron


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02. Toward An Integrative Science Of The Person , Ann Rev Psychology

Excerpts: To build a science of the person, the most basic question was,
and remains, how can one
identify and understand the psychological invariance that distinctively
characterizes an individual
and that underlies the variations in the thoughts, feelings, and actions
that occur across contexts
and over time? This question proved particularly difficult because of the
discrepancies that soon
emerged between the expressions of consistency that were expected and those
that were found. The
resulting dilemma became known as the classic "personality paradox": How
can we reconcile our
intuitionsand theoriesabout the invariance and stability of personality
with the equally compelling
empirical evidence for the variability of the person's behavior across
diverse situations?(...)

* Toward An Integrative Science Of The Person, Walter Mischel  , Ann Rev
Psychology; Volume 55,
Page 1 - 22


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02.01. Self-Knowledge , Annual Review of Psychology

Excerpts: Because of personal motives and the architecture of the mind, it
may be difficult for
people to know themselves. People often attempt to block out unwanted
thoughts and feelings through
conscious suppression and perhaps through unconscious repression, though
whether such attempts are
successful is controversial. (...)
Other ways of increasing self-knowledge include looking at ourselves
through the eyes of others and
observing our own behavior. These approaches can potentially promote
self-knowledge, although major
obstacles exist. It is not always advantageous to hold self-perceptions
that correspond perfectly
with reality, but increasing awareness of nonconscious motives and
personality is generally
beneficial.

* Self-Knowledge, Timothy D. Wilson , Elizabeth W. Dunn  , Annual Review of
Psychology; Volume 55,
Page 493 - 518


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02.02. On Building A Bridge Between Brain And Behavior , Annual Review of
Psychology

Abstract: Cognitive neuroscience is motivated by the precept that a
discoverable correspondence
exists between mental states and brain states. This precept seems to be
supported by remarkable
observations and conclusions derived from event-related potentials and
functional imaging with
humans and neurophysiology with behaving monkeys. This review evaluates
specific conceptual and
technical limits of claims of correspondence between neural events, overt
behavior, and
hypothesized covert processes examined using data on the neural control of
saccadic eye m

* On Building A Bridge Between Brain And Behavior, Jeffrey D. Schall
, Annual Review of Psychology; Volume 55, Page 23 - 50


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02.03. The Psychology And Neuroscience Of Forgetting , Annual Review of
Psychology

Excerpts: (...) everyday forgetting is attributable to an altogether
different form of
interference. According to this idea, recently formed memories that have
not yet had a chance to
consolidate are vulnerable to the interfering force of mental activity and
memory formation (even
if the interfering activity is not similar to the previously learned
material). This account helps
to explain why sleep, alcohol, and benzodiazepines all improve memory for a
recently learned list,
and it is consistent with recent work on the variables that affect the
induction and maintenance of
long-term potentiation in the hippocampus.

* The Psychology And Neuroscience Of Forgetting, John T. Wixted  , Annual
Review of Psychology;
Volume 55, Page 235 - 269


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02.04. Group Performance And Decision Making , Annual Review of Psychology

Excerpts: Theory and research on small group performance and decision
making is reviewed. Recent
trends in group performance research have found that process gains as well
as losses are possible,
and both are frequently explained by situational and procedural contexts
that differentially affect
motivation and resource coordination. Research has continued on classic
topics (e.g.,
brainstorming, group goal setting, stress, and group performance) and
relatively new areas (e.g.,
collective induction). Group decision making research has focused on
preference combination for
continuous response distributions and group information processing. New
approaches (e.g.,
group-level signal detection) and traditional topics (e.g., groupthink) are
discussed. New
directions, such as nonlinear dynamic systems, evolutionary adaptation, and
technological advances,
should keep small group research vigorous well into the future.

* Group Performance And Decision Making, Norbert L. Kerr , R. Scott
Tindale  , Annual Review of
Psychology; Volume 55, Page 623 - 655


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02.05. Creativity , Annual Review of Psychology

Abstract: Creativity has clear benefits for individuals and society as a
whole. Not surprisingly, a
great deal of research has focused on creativity, especially in the past 20
years. This chapter
reviews the creativity research, first looking to the relevant traits,
capacities, influences, and
products, and then within disciplinary perspectives on creativity (e.g.,
biological, cognitive,
developmental, organizational). Great headway is being made in creativity
research, but more
dialogue between perspectives is suggested. New and important areas of
research are highlighted,
and the various costs and benefits of creativity are discussed.

* Creativity, Mark A. Runco  , Annual Review of Psychology; Volume 55, Page
657 - 687


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03. Wound-Healing Genes Influence Cancer Progression , Bio.com

Excerpts: Genes that help wounds heal are most often the "good guys," but a
new study paints them
as the enemy in some types of cancer. Researchers at the Stanford
University School of Medicine
have found that some tumors activate these wound-healing genes and, when
they do, the tumors are
more likely to spread. This work could help highlight new ways to treat the
disease along with
helping doctors decide which cancers to approach more aggressively.

* Wound-Healing Genes Influence Cancer Progression , 04/01/13, Bio.com


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03.01. The Integration Of Pharmacokinetics And Pharmacodynamics:
Understanding Dose-Response ,
Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Excerpts: This review explores the utility and applications of
Pharmacokinetics and
Pharmacodynamics in the study of drugs, provides examples of lessons
learned from their application
to studies of human pharmacology, points out some of their limitations, and
advances the thesis
that these tools ideally should be employed together in an integrated
approach. As we continue to
apply these tools across the continuum of age and disease, they provide a
powerful means to enhance
our understanding of drug action, drug interactions, and intrinsic host
factors that influence
pharmacologic response.

* The Integration Of Pharmacokinetics And Pharmacodynamics: Understanding
Dose-Response, Susan M.
Abdel-Rahman , Ralph E. Kauffman  , Annual Review of Pharmacology and
Toxicology; Volume 44, Page
111 - 136


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03.02. How Enzymes Work: Analysis by Modern Rate Theory and Computer
Simulations , Science

Abstract: Advances in transition state theory and computer simulations are
providing new insights
into the sources of enzyme catalysis. Both lowering of the activation free
energy and changes in
the generalized transmission coefficient (recrossing of the transition
state, tunneling, and
nonequilibrium contributions) can play a role. A framework for
understanding these effects is
presented, and the contributions of the different factors, as illustrated
by specific enzymes, are
identified and quantified by computer simulations. The resulting
understanding of enzyme catalysis
is used to comment on alternative proposals of how enzymes work.

* How Enzymes Work: Analysis by Modern Rate Theory and Computer
Simulations, Mireia Garcia-Viloca ,
Jiali Gao , Martin Karplus , Donald G. Truhlar , Science Jan 9 2004: 186-195.


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03.03. Stem Cells: How To Make Eggs And Sperm , Nature

Excerpts: Embryonic stem cells can develop into many specialized cell types
in culture dishes. It
now seems that they can also generate primordial germ cells, which then go
on to form sperm and
eggs.


A fertilized egg is potentially immortal: this fusion of egg and sperm
gives rise not only to a new
individual, but also (theoretically at least) to an endless series of
generations. Three groups now
suggest that it is possible to generate both of these remarkable cells
?known collectively as germ
cells ?in a culture dish.

* Stem Cells: How To Make Eggs And Sperm, M. Azim Surani  , DOI:
10.1038/427106a, Nature 427, 106 -
107 (08 January 2004)


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04. What Does A Molecule Want? The Myth Of The Self-Replicating Molecule ,
Biosystems

Abstract: The non-equilibrium (...) theory, underlying the "selfish-gene"
paradigm, is shown to be
at several points insufficient and contradictory for the description of
observed facts of
biological systems. We analyze at some length these deficiencies as (1)
statistical versus
individual non-linear self-constraints, (2) the continuous versus discrete
cause-effect evolutional
transition, and (3) the nature of the emerging aim-directed biological
systems. Concerning the
latter, it is shown that it can only be described with reference to the
origin of the genetic code,
which cannot be accounted for by the continuous evolution of
non-equilibrium (...) deficiencies
might be covered by alternative (quantum) theoretical considerations.

* What Does A Molecule Want? The Myth Of The Self-Replicating Molecule
(Comments On The
"Selfish-Gene" Paradigm), A. Balázs , online 2004/01/10, DOI:
10.1016/S0303-2647(03)00101-1,
Biosystems
* Contributed by Atin Das


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05. Climate Change Science: Adapt, Mitigate, or Ignore? , Science

Excerpts: Climate change is real, and the causal link to increased
greenhouse emissions is now well
established. Globally, the ten hottest years on record have occurred since
1991, (...) . This is a
clear measure of increased frequency of high storm surges around North Sea
coasts, combined with
high flood levels in the River Thames. (...), extreme temperature events
become more frequent and
more serious. In my view, climate change is the most severe problem that we
are facing today--more
serious even than the threat of terrorism.

* Climate Change Science: Adapt, Mitigate, or Ignore?, David A. King ,
Science Jan 9 2004: 176-177


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05.01. Widespread Intense Turbulent Mixing in the Southern Ocean , Science

Abstract: Observations of internal wave velocity fluctuations show that
enhanced turbulent mixing
over rough topography in the Southern Ocean is remarkably intense and
widespread. Mixing rates
exceeding background values by a factor of 10 to 1000 are common above
complex bathymetry (...).
This suggests that turbulent mixing in the Southern Ocean may contribute
crucially to driving the
upward transport of water closing the ocean's meridional overturning
circulation, and thus needs to
be represented in numerical simulations of the global ocean circulation and
the spreading of
biogeochemical tracers.

* Widespread Intense Turbulent Mixing in the Southern Ocean, Alberto C.
Naveira Garabato , Kurt L.
Polzin , Brian A. King , Karen J. Heywood , Martin Visbeck , Science Jan 9
2004: 210-213.


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05.02. To Avoid Fuel Limits, Subaru Is Turning a Sedan Into a Truck , NY Times

Excerpts:


Rachel Zahumensky for The New York Times
Elizabeth Ike, from Albemarle County, Va, with her new Subaru Outback.



The Subaru Outback sedan looks like any other midsize car, with a trunk and
comfortable seating for
four adults.

But Subaru is tweaking some parts of the Outback sedan and wagon this year
to meet the
specifications of a light truck, the same regulatory category used by
pickups and sport utilities.
Why? Largely to avoid tougher fuel economy and air pollution standards for
cars.

* To Avoid Fuel Limits, Subaru Is Turning a Sedan Into a Truck, Danny Hakim
, NY Times


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05.03. Ecology: Clouded Futures , Nature

Excerpts: Global warming is altering the distribution and abundance of
plant and animal species.
Application of a basic law of ecology predicts that many will vanish if
temperatures continue to
rise.


Evidence that climate change is affecting life on Earth continues to mount.
But how great is the
threat to biodiversity? (...) Thomas et al.3 show that global warming,
projected to the year 2050,
could sharply increase extinction probabilities for a sample of 1,103
species representing
terrestrial regions from Mexico to Australia.

* Ecology: Clouded Futures, J. Alan Pounds , Robert Puschendorf  , DOI:
10.1038/427107a, Nature
427, 107 - 109 (08 January 2004)


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06. Virus-Based Toolkit for the Directed Synthesis of Magnetic and
Semiconducting Nanowires ,
Nature

Excerpts: We report a virus-based scaffold for the synthesis of
single-crystal ZnS, CdS, and
freestanding chemically ordered CoPt and FePt nanowires, with the means of
modifying substrate
specificity through standard biological methods. (...). The unique ability
to interchange
substrate-specific peptides into the linear self-assembled filamentous
construct of the M13 virus
introduces a material tunability that has not been seen in previous
synthetic routes. Therefore,
this system provides a genetic toolkit for growing and organizing nanowires
from semiconducting and
magnetic materials.

* Virus-Based Toolkit for the Directed Synthesis of Magnetic and
Semiconducting Nanowires, Chuanbin
Mao , Daniel J. Solis , Brian D. Reiss , Stephen T. Kottmann , Rozamond Y.
Sweeney , Andrew
Hayhurst , George Georgiou , Brent Iverson , Angela M. Belcher , Science
Jan 9 2004: 213-217


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06.01. Synthetic Biology: Microbes Made to Order , Science

Excerpts: Bacterial blinking circuits are just one element in the MIT
researchers' "registry of
standard biological parts," which is akin to an inventory that electrical
engineers or basement
tinkerers might consult when they design a new device, says class co-
instructor Drew Endy of MIT.
Researchers at MIT and elsewhere are working on sensors and actuators,
input and output devices,
genetic circuits to control cells, and a microbial chassis in which to
assemble these pieces. If
they're successful, the registry will help them reach one of the goals of
synthetic biology: to
allow researchers to "go into the freezer, get a part, hook it up," and
have it work the first
time, Endy says.

* Synthetic Biology: Microbes Made to Order, Dan Ferber , Science Jan 9
2004: 158-161.


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06.02. Pig-Human Chimeras Contain Cell Surprise , NewScientist

Excerpts: Pigs grown from fetuses into which human stem cells were injected
have surprised
scientists by having cells in which the DNA from the two species is mixed
at the most intimate
level.


It is the first time such fused cells have been seen in living creatures.
The discovery could have
serious implications for xenotransplantation - the use of animal tissue and
organs in humans - and
even the origin of diseases such as HIV.


The adult pigs that had received human stem cells as fetuses were found to
have pig cells, human
cells and the hybrid cells in their blood and organs.

* Pig-Human Chimeras Contain Cell Surprise, Gaia Vince  , 04/01/13, New
Scientist


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07. Power Laws in Biological Networks , arXiv

Abstract: The rapidly developing theory of complex networks indicates that
real networks are not
random, but have a highly robust large-scale architecture, governed by
strict organizational
principles. Here, we focus on the properties of biological networks,
discussing their scale-free
and hierarchical features. We illustrate the major network characteristics
using examples from the
metabolic network of the bacterium Escherichia coli. We also discuss the
principles of network
utilization, acknowledging that the interactions in a real network have
unequal strengths. We study
the interplay between topology and reaction fluxes provided by flux-balance
analysis. We find that
the cellular utilization of the metabolic network is both globally and
locally highly
inhomogeneous, dominated by "hot-spots", representing connected high-flux
pathways.

* Power Laws in Biological Networks, E. Almaas , A.-L. Barabasi ,
2004-01-07, DOI:
q-bio.MN/0401010, arXiv
* Contributed by Carlos Gershenson


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08. Self-organized Patterns and Traffic Flow in Colonies of Organisms: From
Bacteria and Social
Insects to Vertebrates , arXiv

Abstract: Flocks of birds and schools of fish are familiar examples of
spatial patterns formed by
living organisms. In contrast to the patterns on the skins of, say, zebra
and giraffe, the patterns
of our interest are {it transient} although different patterns change over
different time scales.
The aesthetic beauty of these patterns have attracted the attentions of
poets and philosophers for
centuries. Scientists from various disciplines, however, are in search of
common underlying
principles that give rise to the transient patterns in colonies of
organisms. Such patterns are
observed not only in colonies of organisms as simple as single-cell
bacteria, as interesting as
social insects like ants and termites as well as in colonies of vertebrates
as complex as birds and
fish but also in human societies. In recent years, particularly over the
last one decade,
physicists have utilized the conceptual framework as well as the
methodological toolbox of
statistical mechanics to unravel the mystery of these patterns. In this
article we present an
overview emphasizing the common trends that rely on theoretical modelling
of these systems using
the so-called agent-based Lagrangian approach.

* Self-organized Patterns and Traffic Flow in Colonies of Organisms: From
Bacteria and Social
Insects to Vertebrates, Debashish Chowdhury , Katsuhiro Nishinari , Andreas
Schadschneider ,
2004-01-07, DOI: q-bio.PE/0401006, arXiv
* Contributed by Carlos Gershenson


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09. Brain Architecture And Social Complexity In Modern And Ancient Birds ,
Brain, Behav. & Evol.

Abstract: Vertebrate brains vary tremendously in size, but differences in
form are more subtle. To
bring out functional contrasts that are independent of absolute size, we
have normalized brain
component sizes to whole brain volume. Among primates, cerebrotypes are
linked principally to
enlargement of the cerebral cortex and are associated with increases in the
complexity of social
structure. In birds the telencephalic volume fraction is strongly
correlated with social
complexity. This correlation accounts for almost half of the observed
variation in telencephalic
size, more than any other behavioral specialization examined, including the
ability to learn song.

* Brain Architecture And Social Complexity In Modern And Ancient Birds, M.
J. Burish  , H. Y. Kueh
, S. S.-H. Wang sswang@princeton.edu , 2004, DOI: 10.1159/000075674, Brain,
Behavior and Evolution
* Contributed by Pritha Das


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09.01. Cortical Orofacial Motor Representation In Old World Monkeys, Great
Apes, And Humans ,
Brain, Behav. & Evol.

Abstract: Social life in anthropoid primates is mediated by interindividual
communication,
involving movements of the orofacial muscles for the production of
vocalization and gestural
expression. The current study reports results from quantitative image
analysis of the region
corresponding to orofacial representation of primary motor cortex in
several catarrhine primate
species (...). This cortical region has been implicated in the execution of
skilled motor
activities such as voluntary facial expression and human speech. Compared
to Old World monkeys, the
orofacial representation of area 4 in great apes and humans was
characterized by (...) overall
lower cell volume densities, providing more neuropil space for
interconnections.

* Cortical Orofacial Motor Representation In Old World Monkeys, Great Apes,
And Humans I.
Quantitative Analysis Of Cytoarchitecture, C. C. Sherwood csherwoo@kent.edu
, R. L. Holloway  , J.
M. Erwind  , A. Schleichere  , K. Zillese  , P. R. Hof , 2004, DOI:
10.1159/000075672, Brain,
Behavior and Evolution
* Contributed by Pritha Das


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10. Complexities Of A Simple System: New Lessons, Old Challenges And
Peripheral Questions , Brain
Res. Rev.

Abstract: The gill withdrawal reflex of Aplysia is generally depicted as a
simple behaviour
mediated by a simple neural circuit in a simple organism. In reality,
however, the reflexive
withdrawal of the gill and other mantle organs is anything but simple.
First, the behaviour itself
is complex (...) becomes even more complicated when hundreds of additional
peripheral neurones
(...). While daunting, the complexity of the total circuitry mediating the
gill withdrawal reflex
may provide yet another important lesson: even in simple systems, memory
may not be localized to
specific loci, but rather may be an emergent property of physiological
mechanisms (...).

* Complexities Of A Simple System: New Lessons, Old Challenges And
Peripheral Questions For The
Gill Withdrawal Reflex Of Aplysia, R. P. Croll ROGER.CROLL@DAL.CA , online
2003/11/14, DOI:
10.1016/j.brainresrev.2003.09.003, Brain Research Reviews
* Contributed by Atin Das


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11. Transitions to Synchrony in Coupled Bursting Neurons , PRL

Excerpts: Certain cells in the brain, for example, thalamic neurons during
sleep, show spike-burst
activity. We study such spike-burst neural activity and the transitions to
a synchronized state
using a model of coupled bursting neurons. In an electrically coupled
network, we show that the
increase of coupling strength increases incoherence first and then induces
two different
transitions to synchronized states, one associated with bursts and the
other with spikes. These
sequential transitions to synchronized states are determined by the zero
crossings of the maximum
transverse Lyapunov exponents. These results suggest that synchronization
of spike-burst activity
is a multi-time-scale phenomenon and burst synchrony is a precursor to
spike synchrony. ?004 The
American Physical Society

* Transitions to Synchrony in Coupled Bursting Neurons, Mukeshwar Dhamala ,
Viktor K. Jirsa ,
Mingzhou Ding , 04/01/15, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.028101, PRL


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11.01. Developmental Biology: Asymmetric Fixation , Nature

Excerpts:
* Developmental Biology: Asymmetric Fixation, Nick Monk  , DOI:
10.1038/427111a, Nature 427, 111 -
112 (08 January 2004)


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12. Computation In Gene Networks , Chaos

Abstract: Genetic regulatory networks have the complex task of controlling
all aspects of life.
Using a model of gene expression by piecewise linear differential equations
we show that this
process can be considered as a process of computation. This is demonstrated
by showing that this
model can simulate memory bounded Turing machines. The simulation is robust
with respect to
perturbations of the system, an important property for both analog
computers and biological
systems. Robustness is achieved using a condition that ensures that the
model equations, that are
generally chaotic, follow a predictable dynamics.

* Computation In Gene Networks, A. B.-Hur  , H. T. Siegelmann , 2003/12/31,
DOI: 10.1063/1.1633371,
Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science
* Contributed by Atin Das


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13. Multimedia PC With Instant Start-Up Launches , NewScientist

Excerpts: "Why can't a PC simply turn on like a TV?" (...) When they want
to watch TV, play a DVD,
listen to internet radio or play CDs and MP3s, they have to spend fruitless
minutes watching the
Windows egg timer while the PC boots up.


Not any more. In a direct challenge to PCs running Microsoft's Windows XP
Media Center, InterVideo
of California last week launched the InstantOn PC.


Instead of having to wait for Windows to boot, the technology allows all a
PC's entertainment
functions - TV, DVD, CD, MP3, radio - to be run on a pared-down version of
the open-source Linux
operating system, called LinDVD. Rather than sitting on a hard drive,
LinDVD is small enough to be
held in a read-only memory chip and boots in 10 seconds flat.

"For consumer electronics activities, the InstantOn PC is strictly Linux.
It simply uses Windows
for the slower drudge work like word processing," said InterVideo spokesman
Andy Marken, speaking
at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week.

Editor's Note: Time-scales are often critical parameters in complex
systems. Here they can
dramatically influence if an application is used or not and therefore can
lead to the emergence of
new collective modes of behavior.

* Multimedia PC With Instant Start-Up Launches, Barry Fox  , 04/01/16, New
Scientist


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13.01. Wireless Lamp Posts Take Over World! , Newswireless.net

Excerpts: "Take a lamp post, put electronics in it, send messages to other
wireless devices,
including other lamp posts." You can link the lamp post to the Internet
directly, if there's an
internet connection available - any sort of connection at all will do. High
speed fibre is best,
but if that's not available, then a satellite, or maybe a phone line nearby
can be used. And if
there's nothing at all, then ask the next lamp post if it has any Internet
connection. It may do.
If it doesn't, the next one may do; and so you go along the road until you
find one that does. It
takes fractions of a second to complete the chain; and once the chain is
complete, any data you
like can be sent down it.

* Wireless Lamp Posts Take Over World!, By Guy Kewney  , 04/01/15,
Newswireless.net


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14. Puzzled Monkeys Reveal Key Language Step , NewScientist

Excerpts: The key cognitive step that allowed humans to become the only
animals using language may
have been
identified, scientists say. A new study on monkeys found that while they
are able to understand
basic
rules about word patterns, they are not able to follow more complex rules
that underpin the...

* Puzzled Monkeys Reveal Key Language Step, 04/01/15, KurzweilAI.net/New
Scientists.com News
Service


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15. Closing a Window on the Universe , Washington Post

Excerpts:
* Closing a Window on the Universe, Timothy Dwyer
, Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, January 18, 2004; Page C01



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15.01. NASA Cancels Trip to Supply Hubble, Sealing Early Doom , NYTimes

Excerpts:
* NASA Cancels Trip to Supply Hubble, Sealing Early Doom, Dennis Overbye  ,
04/01/17, NYTimes


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15.02. Why Hubble Is Being Dropped , BBC News Online

Excerpts:



  Hubble has been a spectacular success




Without doubt the Hubble Space Telescope is one of the most important
telescopes ever built. Its
clear view of the Cosmos, above the turbulent and distorting atmosphere,
has changed our
understanding of the Universe in which we live.

Its science is remarkable, its images iconic and it had much more to give.
So why is it being
abandoned?

Few were expecting such an announcement about the demise of Hubble.

Just a few weeks ago Steven Beckwith, the director of Hubble's home
institution, the Space
Telescope Science Institute in Maryland, told BBC News Online that he was
looking forward to the
next servicing mission and the upgrade Hubble would receive.

* Why Hubble Is Being Dropped, David Whitehouse  , 04/01/17, BBC News Online


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16. Reflectins: The Unusual Proteins of Squid Reflective Tissues , Science

Excerpts:
* Reflectins: The Unusual Proteins of Squid Reflective Tissues, Wendy J.
Crookes , Lin-Lin Ding ,
Qing Ling Huang, Jennifer R. Kimbell , Joseph Horwitz , Margaret J. McFall-Ngai
, Science Jan 9 2004: 235-238.



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17. A Short-Order Revolutionary , NYTimes

Excerpts: The next phase that Murphy and his backers envision is a ''pod,''
consisting of four
diners and a central food-processing plant where animals from area farms
would be slaughtered and
local organic tomatoes would be turned into vats of salsa or pasta sauce.
The greater Boston area
seems the most likely location, since it has some continuing tradition of
small-scale farming and a
population that might appreciate what the diners would offer. Then the pod
would be duplicated in
other areas. Branding is part of the strategy. The processing plants would
turn out sausage, smoked
cheese and tomato sauce with the Farmers Diner label. You'd have a Farmers
Diner on the local strip
alongside Wendy's and Taco Bell. This is Murphy's fully realized dream: ''I
want to blend my
great-grandmother's business model with a multiunit one that relies on
economies of scale.''

* A Short-Order Revolutionary, Russell Shorto  , 04/01/11, NYTimes Magazine


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18. Greeting Big Brother With Open Arms , NY Times

Excerpts: To a post-cold-war generation of Americans, the prospect of
living under surveillance is
no longer scary but cool.

* Greeting Big Brother With Open Arms, NY Times


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18.01. A Classic Tale Updated: Cleric vs. President , Toronto Star

Excerpts: So, we have the irony of an ayatollah calling for real democracy
and an American
president dodging it. Or, at the very least, wanting an Iowa-like caucus to
serve as a substitute
for a national vote. (...)

Americans say there isn't enough time to organize a voters' list by June.
True. But Sistani is not
so much insisting on a timetable as a process free of American rigging and
the dictates of Bush's
re-election campaign. The ayatollah is calling the president's bluff.
Democracy for Iraq? Sure. But
make it real, not a phony one (...).

* A Classic Tale Updated: Cleric vs. President, Haroon Siddiqui  ,
04/01/18, Toronto Star


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19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks





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19.01. Mad Cow As Bioterrorism? , The Scientist

Excerpts: As public interest in bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)
grows in the United States,
strict controls on who is allowed to study could needlessly slow US
research on the disease,
contend some prion scientists. That's because as part of the Bioterrorism
Preparedness and Response
Act that recently took effect, BSE prions are considered "select
agents?that require special
security arrangements, including background checks on anyone who may have
access to this material
in the lab.

* Mad Cow As Bioterrorism?, Eric Sabo  , 04/01/15, The Scientist


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19.02. Deep Repositories: Out of Sight, Out of Terrorists' Reach , Science

Excerpts: Russia, on the other hand, is only too keen to open its planned
repository to the world.
"There are lots of places to put waste in Russia," says Taylor. The
problem, he says, is inadequate
legislation and regulation governing the nuclear industry. Moreover, Russia
has its own problems
with securing spent fuel, especially leftovers from its decommissioned
nuclear submarines. "If they
can't manage that properly, why send them more?" asks Taylor.

One fear of antinuclear campaigners is that some countries will use
repositories to help resurrect
their nuclear programs. Closing the fuel cycle would deprive critics of a
potent argument: that it
is irresponsible to build new nuclear plants until there is a solution to
the problem of high-level
waste. "Nuclear waste has been seen as the Achilles' heel of the industry,"
Taylor says.

* Deep Repositories: Out of Sight, Out of Terrorists' Reach, Richard Stone
, Science Jan 9 2004:
161-164


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19.03. Bush's Power to Plan Trial of Detainees Is Challenged , NY Times

Excerpts: In a 30-page brief filed with the Supreme Court, five military
lawyers assigned to defend
detainees assert that President Bush worked to "create a legal black hole."
(...)
"Under this monarchical regime, those who fall into the black hole may not
contest the
jurisdiction, competency or even the constitutionality of the military
tribunals," the defense
lawyers wrote. They said they were not taking a position on whether the
president may deny habeas
corpus to people simply detained at Guantánamo, (...).

* Bush's Power to Plan Trial of Detainees Is Challenged, Neil A. Lewis , NY
Times


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19.04. The Justices Take On the President , NYTimes

Excerpts: (...) separation of the government into legislative, executive
and judicial branches. If
one of the three overreached, he wrote in the Federalist Papers, another
would stop the abuse of
power.

Madison's theory is about to be profoundly tested. The Supreme Court has
agreed to hear challenges
to two of the Bush administration's most sweeping claims of power ?the
power to declare any
American citizen an "enemy combatant" and detain him or her indefinitely
without trial, and the
power to hold the alien captives at the American military base at
Guantánamo Bay (...)

* The Justices Take On the President, Anthony Lewis , NY Times


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20. Links & Snippets





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20.01. Other Publications



- Emotional Tagging Of Memory Formation-In The Search For Neural
Mechanisms, G. R.-Levin
gal.r-l@psy.haifa.ac.il , I. Akirav , online 2003/11/14, Brain Research
Reviews, DOI:
10.1016/j.brainresrev.2003.08.005
- A Computational Model Of A Class Of Gene Networks With Positive And
Negative Controls, P. C. Y.
Chen engchenp@nus.edu.sg , online 2003/12/25, Biosystems, DOI:
10.1016/j.biosystems.2003.07.002
- Neural Substrates Mediating Human Delay And Trace Fear Conditioning, D.
C. Knight  , D. T. Cheng
, C. N. Smith  , E. A. Stein  , F. J. Helmstetter , 2004/01/07, The Journal
of Neuroscience, DOI:
10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0433-03.2004
- Thinking About Actions: The Neural Substrates Of Person Knowledge, M. F.
Mason  , J. F. Banfield
, C. Neil Macrae , Feb. 2004, Cerebral Cortex
- Age-related Changes In Neural Activity During Visual Target Detection
Measured By fMRI, D. J.
Madden  , W. L. Whiting  , J. M. Provenzale  , S. A. Huette , Feb. 2004,
Cerebral Cortex
- Relations Between Emotions, Display Rules, Social Motives, And Facial
Behaviour, Zaalberg R.  ,
Manstead A.  , Fischer A. , Feb. 2004, Cognition and Emotion, DOI:
10.1080/02699930341000040
- The Face Of Wrath: The Role Of Features And Configurations In Conveying
Social Threat, Lundqvist
D.  , Esteves F.  , Öhman A. , Feb. 2004, Cognition and Emotion, DOI:
10.1080/02699930244000453
- The Selfish Nature Of Generosity: Harassment And Food Sharing In
Primates, J. R. Stevens ,
2004/01/12, Alphagalileo & Proceedings Biological Sciences
- Pollinator Attractiveness Increases With Distance From Flowering Orchids,
B. B. M. Wong  , C.
Salzmann  , F. P. Schiestl , 2004/01/12, Alphagalileo & Biology Letters
- Evidence That Disgust Evolved To Protect From Risk Of Disease, V.
Curtis  , R. Aunger  , T. Rabie
, 2004/01/12, Alphagalileo & Biology Letters
- New Device Can Help Defend Against Novel Biological Agents, 2004/01/12,
ScienceDaily & Vanderbilt
University
- Gene May Be Key To Evolution Of Larger Human Brain, 2004/01/13,
ScienceDaily & Howard Hughes
Medical Institute
- Why Did Sabertooth Tigers Need Such Big Teeth?, 2004/01/13, ScienceDaily
& University At Buffalo
- MedBlast: Searching Articles Related To A Biological Sequence, Q. Tu  ,
H. Tang  , D. Ding ,
2004/01/01, Bioinformatics
- Essentiality And Damage In Metabolic Networks, N. Lemke
lemke@exatas.unisonos.br , F. Herédia  ,
C. K. Barcellos  , A. N. dos Reis  , J. C. M. Mombach , 2004/01/01,
Bioinformatics
- Assessing Conservation Trade-Offs: Identifying The Effects Of Flooding
Rice Fields For Waterbirds
On Non-Target Bird Species, C. S. Elphick elphick@uconnvm.uconn.edu ,
2003/09/02, Biological
Conservation, DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(03)00264-7
- Development, Crime And Punishment: Accounting For The International
Differences In Crime Rates,
R. R. Soares soares@econ.umd.edu , 2003/10/14, Journal of Development
Economics, DOI:
10.1016/j.jdeveco.2002.12.001
- How to Find Decision Makers in Neural Circuits?, Alexei A. Koulakov ,
Dmitry Rinberg , Dmitry N.
Tsigankov , 2004-01-05, arXiv, DOI: q-bio.NC/0401005
- Long Chaotic Transients in Complex Networks, Alexander Zumdieck , Marc
Timme , Theo Geisel , Fred
Wolf , 2003-01-05, arXiv, DOI: cond-mat/0401038
- Cyborg Systems as Platforms for Computer-Vision Algorithm-Development for
Astrobiology, Patrick
C. McGuire , et al. , 2003-01-02, arXiv, DOI: cs.CV/0401004
- Chinese Turn to Web for Justice, In China, a car accident last October
between a peasant and a
wealthy woman left the peasant's wife dead. The wealthy woman, married to a
politician, got off
with a minor fine. The incident incensed ordinary people. Tens of thousands
protested on the
Internet last week, prompting the local government to reopen the case.
NPR's Rob Gifford reports.
- Abiotic Forcing of Plankton Evolution in the Cenozoic, Daniela N. Schmidt
, Hans R. Thierstein ,
Jörg Bollmann , Ralf Schiebel
, Science Jan 9 2004: 207-210.
- Periodic Pulsing of Characteristic Microearthquakes on the San Andreas
Fault, Robert M. Nadeau  ,
Thomas V. McEvilly
, Science Jan 9 2004: 220-222
- Neural Systems Underlying the Suppression of Unwanted Memories, Michael
C. Anderson , Kevin N.
Ochsner , Brice Kuhl , Jeffrey Cooper , Elaine Robertson , Susan W.
Gabrieli , Gary H. Glover ,
John D. E. Gabrieli

, Science Jan 9 2004: 232-235.
- Neuroscience: Calcium and CREST for Healthy Dendrites, Gregory S. X. E.
Jefferis , Takaki
Komiyama , Liqun Luo
, Science Jan 9 2004: 179-181
- Toxicology: Survey Stokes Debate About Farmed Fish, Erik Stokstad
, Science Jan 9 2004: 154-155.
- High-Energy Physics: Once Again, Muons Defy Reigning Theory, Charles Seife
, Science Jan 9 2004: 154
- Synthetic Biology: Time for a Synthetic Biology Asilomar?, Dan Ferber
, Science Jan 9 2004: 159
- U.S. Officials Try to Trace Illegal Sale of Nuclear Technology, Eric
Lichtblau
, American officials are investigating whether Pakistan took part in a
scheme to export devices
that could be used to trigger nuclear weapons.
- Farmed Salmon, Pro and Con, The real message of a study in the journal
Science is that the fish
farming industry n Emily Eakin
eeds to clean up its feeding materials to reduce the level of contaminants.
- ERBB Receptors: Directing Key Signaling Networks Throughout Life , Thomas
Holbro, Nancy E. Hynes


, Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology; Volume 44, Page 195 - 217
- Mind Over Machine, Duke University research suggests we'll soon be able
to move
artificial limbs, control robotic soldiers, and communicate across
thousands of miles -- using nothing but our...
- Nanotubes Grown On Plastic, University of Cambridge researchers have
devised a way to grow
vertical
forests of carbon nanotubes on flexible plastic. The combination of
nanoscale electronic components and a plastic substrate could enable
applications ranging from flexible electronics like wearable computer
displays to new...
- Chemists Build Curved Structures With Nanoscale Building Blocks,
Northwestern University
chemists
report they have discovered ways to
construct nanoscale building blocks
that assemble into flat or curved structures with a high level of
predictability. Using hybrid
nanorods consisting of segments of gold and conducting polymers as their
building blocks, the...
- Hints of a New Harmony on Iraq, The Bush administration and the United
Nations are speaking of
each other in far more constructive tones than those used in the past year.
- Getting Sociable With Gaming, 04/01/18, Titles like EyeToy have made
gaming more sociable, argues
Daniel Etherington of BBCi Collective.
BBC News
- Language Tools For Fight On Terror, 04/01/15, Hi-tech tools are helping
intelligence agencies
track and trace terrorists.
BBC News,
- Apple Storms Market With XGrid, Grid Today, DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID
COMMUNITY / JANUARY 12, 2004: VOL. 3 NO. 2. (...) Grid-enabled "virtual" IT
environment that takes
advantage of unused computing capacity to run batch and workload processing.
- Strategy+Business: When Art Meets Science: The Challenge of ROI
Marketing, These days, there's
more pressure than ever to make marketing more of a quantifiable science
than an ephemeral art. In
response, a new management discipline called ROI marketing is emerging to
help businesses attain
the highest possible return on their marketing investments.
- Cells' Ability To Open Blood's Floodgates Hinges On Unexpected Factors, A
mystery of basic cell
metabolism that has persisted for a century has come a major step closer to
giving up its secrets.
Teams of scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St.
Louis have identified a
mechanism that triggers increased blood flow to brain cells actively
engaged in work
- Visual Mechanisms Of Motion Analysis And Motion Perception , Andrew M.
Derrington , Harriet A.
Allen , Louise S. Delicato
, Annual Review of Psychology; Volume 55, Page 181 - 205
- Cumulative Progress In Formal Theories Of Attention , Gordon D. Logan
, Annual Review of Psychology; Volume 55, Page 207 - 234
- The Internet And Social Life , John A. Bargh , Katelyn Y. A. McKenna

, Annual Review of Psychology; Volume 55, Page 573 - 590
- Disgust is good for you, shows study , Gaia Vince  , 04/01/14, New
Scientist, The purpose of
disgust has been quantitatively demonstrated for the first time - it is an
evolved response that
protects people from disease or harm. (...)

Significantly more people found the disease-related images more disgusting
than their pairs. Women
and younger people showed the greatest sensitivity to images of disease or
body fluids.
- Moonlighting: Reflective Protein Causes Squid To Shimmer, Science News,
Vol. 165, No. 2,
04/01/10, Also available in  Audible  format. Squid can manipulate light in
amazing ways to
camouflage themselves at night, and researchers have unveiled a bizarre set
of reflective proteins
in the animals' tissues that underlie this trait.
- Neural Road To Repression: Brain May Block Out Undesired Memories,
Science News, Vol. 165, No. 2,
04/01/10, Also available in  Audible  format.
Specific brain structures work together to allow people to repress certain
memories intentionally.
- Flashy Transistors: Electronic Workhorses Also Shed Light, Science News,
Vol. 165, No. 2,
04/01/10, Also available in  Audible  format.
Researchers have discovered that the transistor can emit light, a
yet-untapped talent.



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20.02. Webcast Announcements



Cancer Biology , NPR Talk of the Nation, 04/01/16, How the spread of cancer
is like wound healing
gone awry.      Tracking Ebola , NPR Talk of the Nation, 04/01/16, A new
study might help
scientists predict where Ebola may strike next.      Animal Thought and
Communication, NPR Talk of
the Nation, 04/01/16, How do animals think and communicate with each other?
And what can studying
animals tell us about the evolution of language in humans? In this hour,
NPR's Ira Flatow and
guests look at thought and communication in apes, gorillas and monkeys.
What can non-human primates
tell us about communication in humans?

  CODIS 2004, International Conference On Communications, Devices And
Intelligent Systems, 2004
Calcutta, India, 04/01/09-10
   EVOLVABILITY & INTERACTION: Evolutionary Substrates of
   Communication, Signaling, and Perception in the Dynamics of Social
   Complexity, London, UK, 03/10/08-10
   The Semantic Web
   and Language Technology - Its Potential and Practicalities,
   Bucharest, Romania, 03/07/28-08/08
   ECAL 2003, 7th
   European Conference on Artificial Life, Dortmund, Germany,
   03/09/14-17
   IMA International
   Conference Bifurcation 2003, Univ. Southampton, UK, 27-30 July,
   2003
   New Santa
   Fe Institute President About His Vision for SFI's Future Role,
   (Video, Santa Fe, NM, 03/06/04)
   SPIE's 1st Intl Symp
   on Fluctuations and Noise, Santa Fe, NM, 2003/06/01-04
   NAS Sackler
   Colloquium on Mapping Knowledge Domains, Video/Audio Report,
   03/05/11
   Uncertainty and
   Surprise: Questions on Working with the Unexpected and Unknowable,
   The University of Texas Austin, Texas USA, 2003/04/10-12
   13th Ann Intl Conf,
   Soc f Chaos Theory in Psych & Life Sciences, Boston, MA, USA,
   2003/08/08-10
   CERN
   Webcast Service, Streamed videos of Archived Lectures and
   Live Events
   Dean
   LeBaron's Archive of Daily Video Commentary, Ongoing Since
   February 1998
   Edge Videos




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20.03. Conference & Call for Papers Announcements


2004
  Western Simulation MultiConference (WMC'04), San Diego,
  CA., USA, 04/01/18-24

  The
  Mathematica Gulf Conference, Muscat, Oman, 04/01/26

  1st
  International Workshop on Biologically Inspired Approaches to
  Advanced Information Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland,
  04/01/29-30

  Physics
  of Socio-Economic Systems, 1st Intl Winter School
  2004, Konstanz, Germany, 04/02/16-20


The O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, San Diego, CA, 04/02/09-12

  Advances
  in Molecular Electronics: From molecular materials to single
  molecule devices, Dresden, Germany, 04/02/23

  Leadership in
  Rapidly Changing Business Environments -Learning and Adapting in
  Time, Cambridge, MA, 04/02/26-27

  4th
  Intl ICSC Symposium Engineering Of Intelligent Systems (EIS
  2004), Island of Madeira, Portugal, 04/02/29-03/02

  Conference
  on Longevity , Sydney, Australia, 04/03/05-07

  Arbeitskreis
  Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme Jahrestagung
  (AKSOE), Regensburg, Germany, 04/03/08-12

  11th Annual Winter Chaos Conference Dynamical Systems Thinking in Science
and Society, Stony
Creek, CT, USA, 04/03/12-14

  Capital
  Science 2004, Washington, 04/03/20-21

  Fractal 2004,
  "Complexity and Fractals in Nature", 8th Intl
  Multidisciplinary Conf, Vancouver, Canada, 04/04/04-07

  6th German Workshop on Artificial Life 2004 (GWAL-6), Bamberg, Germany,
04/04/14-16

  The
  9th IEEE Intl Conf on Engineering of Complex Computer
  Systems, Florence, Italy, 04/04/14-16

  2004
  Advanced Simulation Technologies Conference (ASTC'04),
  Arlington, VA., USA, 04/04/18-22

  NKS
  (New Kind of Science) 2004 Conference and Minicourse,
  Boston, Massachusetts, 04/04/22-25

  Urban
  Vulnerability and Network Failure: Constructions and Experiences
  of Emergencies, Crises and Collapse, Manchester, UK,
  04/04/29-30


What Really Matters ?The Global Forum 2004, Santa Fe, NM, 04/05/02-040

  5th
  International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS2004),
  Boston, MA, USA, 04/05/16-21

  3rd Intl Conf on
  Systems Thinking in Management (ICSTM 2004) "Transforming
  Organizations to Achieve Sustainable Success",
  Philadelphia, Pa, USA, 04/05/19-21

4th Intl Conf on
Fractals And Dynamic Systems In Geoscience, München, Germany, 04/05/19-22

  9th
  Annual Workshop on Economics and Heterogeneous Interaction Agents
  (WEHIA04), Kyoto, Japan, 2004/05/27-29

  13th
  International Symposium on HIV & Emerging Infectious
  Diseases, Toulon, France, 04/06/03-05

  ECC8
  Experimental Chaos Conference, Florence, Italy,
  04/06/14-17

  7th
Intl Conf on Linking Systems Thinking, Innovation,Quality, Entrepreneurship
and Environment
(STIQE),
MARIBOR, SLOVENIA, 04/06/24-26


NAACSOS 2004, North American Association for Computational Social and
Organizational Science,
Pittsburgh PA, 04/06/27-29


3rd Intl School Topics in Nonlinear Dynamics Discrete Dynamical Systems and
Applications , Urbino
(Italy), 04/07/07-09

  From Animals To Animats
  8, 8th Intl Conf On The Simulation Of Adaptive Behavior
  (SAB'04), Los Angeles, USA, 04/07/13-17

  3rd
Intl Conf Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems Conference (AAMAS 2004),
New York City,
04/07/19-23

7th
Intl Workshop on: Trust in Agent Societies , New York City, 04/07/19-20

  8th
  World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and
  Informatics, Orlando, Florida, USA, 04/07/18-21

  2004
  Summer Simulation MultiConference (SummerSim'04), San Jose
  Hyatt, San Jose, California, 04/07/25-29

  6th
  International Mathematica Symposium (IMS 2004), Banff,
  Canada, 04/08/02-06


Fractals and Natural Hazards at 32nd Intl Geological Congress (IGC),
Florence, Italy, 04/08/20-28

  ANTS
  2004, 4th International Workshop on Ant Colony
  Optimization and Swarm Intelligence, Brussels, Belgium,
  04/09/05-08

  Dynamic
  Ontology, An Inquiry into Systems, Emergence, Levels of Reality,
  and Forms of Causality, Trento, Italy,
  04/09/08-11

  9th
  Intl Conf on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems
  (ALIFE9), Boston, Massachusetts, 04/09/12-15

  The
Verhulst 200 on Chaos, Brussels, BELGIUM, 04/09/16-18

  The
  8th Intl Conf on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature
  (PPSN VIII), Birmingham, UK, 04/09/18-22

  XVII Brazilian
  Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Sao Luis, Maranhao -
  Brazil, 04/09/22-24

   TEDMED Conference ,
Charleston SC, 04/10/12-15

  Wolfram
  Technology Conference, Champaign, Illinois,
  04/10/21-23





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