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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Scientists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
The Mad Scientists' Club is a series of three books plus a manuscript written by Bertrand R. Brinley (1917-?) and illustrated by Charles Geer.
The Scientists was an influential indie rock band from Perth, Australia, led by Kim Salmon.
The first version of the Scientists, as the Salmon/Baker/Sharples/Juniper lineup, reformed for a one-off show in Perth on 10 February 1995.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Scientists   (1237 words)

  
 Living Systems Theory
In addition, living systems models and methodology are useful in empirical research on the great variety of systems of interest to psychology and related fields and in study of individual systems at any of the eight levels of living systems.
Self-organizing systems are able to maintain a nonrandom and, therefore, improbable state because they are open systems that exchange inputs and outputs of matter and energy with their environment.
Expert systems are of two n s: (a) those t at model the way human beings behave or solve problems and (b) those that solve problems in the optimal way regardless of whether their logical processes are like human thinking.
www.newciv.org /ISSS_Primer/asem05jm.html   (7393 words)

  
 Miniaturization of Explosive Systems Technology
Since explosive systems have unique capabilities and generate extremely highpressure states, there is wide interest in the miniaturization of explosive systems for materials processing, aerospace, and defense applications.
Explosive system miniaturization is especially important for the design of new munitions for unmanned air vehicles and for the hardening of weapon fuzing systems.
Scientists are extending the theoretical analysis with multidimensional, multi-material simulations in the integrated framework of DSD analysis tools.
www.afrlhorizons.com /Briefs/Aug04/MN0313.html   (953 words)

  
 Computer scientists and database administrators
Systems can range from a connection between two offices in the same building to globally distributed networks, voice mail, and e-mail systems of a multinational organization.
For computer and information scientists, a doctoral degree generally is required because of the highly technical nature of their work.
Because not all of the analysts would be needed once the system is functioning, the company might contract for such employees with a temporary help agency or a consulting firm or with the network systems analysts themselves.
stats.bls.gov /oco/ocos042.htm   (2919 words)

  
 Environmental scientists and hydrologists
Environmental scientists and hydrologists use their knowledge of the physical makeup and history of the Earth to protect the environment, study the properties of underground and surface waters, locate water and energy resources, predict water-related geologic hazards, and offer environmental site assessments and advice on indoor air quality and hazardous-waste-site remediation.
Environmental scientists and hydrologists in research positions with the Federal Government or in colleges and universities frequently are required to design programs and write grant proposals in order to continue their data collection and research.
Environmental scientists and hydrologists have extensive training in physical sciences, and many apply their knowledge of chemistry, physics, biology, and mathematics to explain certain phenomena closely related to the work of geoscientists.
www.bls.gov /oco/ocos050.htm   (2651 words)

  
 Computer Scientists and Systems Analysts
Because computer scientists and systems analysts spend long periods of time in front of a computer terminal typing on a keyboard, they are susceptible to eye strain, back discomfort, and hand and wrist problems.
A growing number of computer scientists and systems analysts are employed on a temporary or contract basis, or as consultants.
Computer scientists and systems analysts will be among the faster than the average growing occupations through the year 2005.
www2.jobtrak.com /help_manuals/outlook/ocos042.html   (2761 words)

  
 Computer Scientists, Computer Engineers, and Systems Analysts
Computer scientists perform many of the same duties as other computer professionals throughout a normal workday, but their jobs are distinguished by the higher level of theoretical expertise and innovation they apply to complex problems and the creation or application of new technology.
Systems analysts may be promoted to senior or lead systems analysts with experience.
Computer scientists, computer engineers, and systems analysts will need to continually upgrade their technical expertise and improve their ability to interact with users as the sophistication and complexity of technology advances.
www.umsl.edu /services/govdocs/ooh9899/147.htm   (3581 words)

  
 Edwards - The World in a Machine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
A system's short-term responses to change tended to be of opposite sign from long-term responses, so that policies which produced desirable effects for a couple of years would end up creating negative effects in the long run (and vice versa).
Like the climate scientists, ecologists, and other systems scientists whose work also matured during the 1960s, Forrester believed that sorting out the structure and dynamics of a system using a computer model was the key to understanding.
Earth systems models based in the physical sciences are including human systems (such as agriculture and forestry) in climate modeling, while integrated assessment models are combine GCM outputs with models of energy and resources to analyze climate policy options.
www.si.umich.edu /~pne/modeling.world.htm   (12752 words)

  
 Self-Organizing Systems FAQ for Usenet newsgroup comp.theory.self-org-sys
These positions exist in the basins of attraction of the system and are inherently unstable, putting the system under stress of some sort, and causing it to move along a trajectory to a new attractor, which forms the self-organized state.
Systems that use energy flow to maintain their form are said to be dissipative systems, these would include atmospheric vortices, living systems and similar.
Systems that are able to change their number of connections (by mutation) are found to move from the chaotic (K high) or static (K low) regions spontaneously to that of the phase transition and stability - the self-organizing criticality.
www.calresco.org /sos/sosfaq.htm   (8398 words)

  
 Institute for Systems Biology: Scientists and Research
Thus our approach at the Institute is to focus research on biological systems as a whole, rather than pursue the traditional approach of focusing on individual genes, proteins, or parts of an organism.
Scientists at the Institute conduct considerable research on model organisms (bacteria, yeast, sea urchins, fish, and mice), as well as on humans.
Scientists from multiple disciplines (biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics, etc.) work closely together to fully understand all aspects of the inherently complex systems intrinsic to living organisms.
www.systemsbiology.org /Scientists_and_Research   (205 words)

  
 Wired News: All Bio Systems Are Go
That's the ambition of scientists in systems biology, a burgeoning field which aims to understand the workings of the nuts and bolts of living organisms through the interactions of the thousands of pieces of DNA, RNA and proteins that network together in each cell of our body.
Systems biology devotees, like Alfred Gilman, winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in medicine, believe the field represents the most promising front in modern medical research.
If systems biology progresses in line with Hood's expectations, one consequence may be the elimination of so-called physics envy suffered by biologists, whose work has traditionally not centered on mathematical expertise.
www.wired.com /news/medtech/0,1286,65411,00.html   (987 words)

  
 Systems Biology: The Big Picture
But the functioning of even a simple system such as a single yeast cell or bacterium is much more complicated than the sum of its genes or proteins or metabolites; it’s the activity of all those components and their relationships to one another that add up to a living organism.
Another “omics” that promises to fill in gaps in systems biology models is metabolomics--theevaluation of tissues and biofluids such as urine, blood plasma, and saliva for metabolite changes that may result from environmental exposures or from disease.
That became apparent at a December 2003 retreat on systems biology that Suk organized for the NIEHS Division of Extramural Research and Training, where speakers included an engineer, a biochemist, a computer scientist, and a physician--each of whom approaches the field from his or her own perspective.
ehponline.org /txg/members/2004/112-16/focus/focus.html?...   (3356 words)

  
 The Origin of Information
In the last chapter we saw that the chemical reactions in living systems, such as the combining of amino acids and nucleotides, are reversible.
Secondly, each of the systems employs the use of specific rules and regulations which determine the meaning of the arrangement of the letters on a page, beads on a string or impressions on a tablet.
Since the net amount of information in a closed system decreases with the advance of time and since, according to materialists, our universe is a closed system, then at the beginning of time, the total amount of information in the universe was at a maximum.
www.direct.ca /trinity/origin2.html   (5662 words)

  
 Search Tuna Report for Astrobiology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
Scientists in all fields are working toward the common goal of discovering the role of life in the universe....
Description: NASA scientists and their colleagues are meeting in California to lay the groundwork for the next 20 years of research in Astrobiology.
Nature Insights: 2001 Although in its infancy, the study of complex systems has seen tremendous growth in recent years, and emerging concepts are now influencing disciplines as disparate as astronomy and biology, physics and finance....
www.searchtuna.com:8004 /ftlive/2666.html   (4076 words)

  
 Scientists Hunt For Light Flashes From Extraterrestrial Civilizations - UFO Evidence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
Scientists from the University of California's Lick Observatory, the SETI Institute, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Berkeley are coupling the Lick Observatory's 40-inch Nickel Telescope with a new pulse-detection system capable of finding laser beacons sent by alien civilizations.
This is not the first OSETI search -- scientists have been conducting OSETI experiments since the 1980s -- but we have only recently developed the technology to look for extremely quick flashes of light.
Each star system is observed for only 10 minutes, but that is all the time needed to detect the light beacons of an alien civilization.
www.ufoevidence.org /documents/doc1956.htm   (1204 words)

  
 Systems Theory Researchers
14, 2006 - Johns Hopkins scientists have found that a method they developed to screen body fluids for certain kinds of cells and some of their genetic blueprint is twice as accurate at spotting b...
Of Complex Systems is a collection of contributions from leading international researchers in the fields of dynamic systems, control theory...
Scientists, researchers, and students working in mathematical physics and...
www.systemstheoryresearchers.info   (292 words)

  
 Global Manpower Needs for Integrative Systems Physiologists
It is remarkable that despite the feeling of a need for IOSS scientists and recognition that these scientists contribute to their departmental research efforts, 31.8% (41) of the respondents did not anticipate hiring IOSS scientists in their department in the next five years, and 24% (31) anticipated hiring no more than one.
Regarding the state of training of scientists in the area of integrative and organs systems biology, 70.5% of the responding departments reported no change in IOSS courses since 1991, although it was unclear from the survey how often these courses were taught or how many students were involved in them.
In response to the question regarding the future needs for IOSS scientists (Figure 12), it was indicated that in general there is an increasing demand for scientists trained to carry out integrative organs and systems research and teaching within their countries and regions, with two exceptions (Chile and Russia).
www.the-aps.org /publications/tphys/2005html/FebTPhys/needs.htm   (3842 words)

  
 ARS Integrated Farming Systems National Program (207)
Every farm or ranch is a complex system of interacting components residing in a natural and socioeconomic environment.
The primary products of the Integrated Agricultural Systems National Program are information and tools for use by farmers and by consultants in farm planning and decision-making within the complex socioeconomic-physical-technical environment of the farm or farms for which they are responsible.
The goal is to help farmers retrieve, understand, and apply this information to the development and effective management of whole farm systems within the context of their ecosystems and communities.
www.ars.usda.gov /research/programs/programs.htm?np_code=207&docid=1400   (283 words)

  
 DSTO > News > Defence honours radar and weapons systems scientists
Two Australian defence scientists have won the prestigious Secretary of Defence's Achievement Award for their outstanding work in surveillance and weapons systems technologies.
Radar scientist Mr Paul Amey received the award for "exceptional contribution in the transitioning of the Jindalee radar capability into the broader Jindalee Operational Radar Network (JORN) system".
Dr Williams, an applied physicist, was recognised for outstanding performance in developing tools and techniques for the design and testing of infrared systems and missiles.
www.dsto.defence.gov.au /news/3509?print=true   (372 words)

  
 IOT Systems, LLC - Experience - From The Ground Up!
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www.iot-systems.com   (121 words)

  
 Basics - Black Hole Encyclopedia
In the realm of science, truth often is stranger than fiction, and the imaginations of scientists often are as expansive as those of authors and screenwriters.
Space and time are squeezed out of existence, and the structure of the universe turns into a "foam" that's ruled by physical laws that scientists do not yet fully comprehend.
Roving fl holes threaten quiet star systems, scientists watch as fl holes collide, foolhardy space jocks wrestle to climb out of the gravitational well when they venture too close to a fl hole's event horizon.
blackholes.stardate.org /basics   (461 words)

  
 Info:Concept of ESCO - ESCO
The initiator and primary sponsor of ESCO is the International Federation of Systems Research (IFSR).
Concerning the scientific rigorosity and interdisciplinarity in the scope of systems sciences ESCO is dedicated to the high standards of founding editor Charles Francois.
The articles in ESCO are provided by an exclusive group of contributors, which should be experts in different fields of Systems Science.
esco.uni-klu.ac.at /index.php/Info:Concept_of_ESCO   (495 words)

  
 Career Information - Computer Systems Analysts, Database Administrators, and Computer Scientists
Computer Systems Analysts, Database Administrators, and Computer Scientists
Courses in computer science or systems design offer good preparation for a job in these computer occupations.
Starting offers averaged $50,664 for graduates with a bachelor’s degree in computer science; $46,822 for those with a degree in computer systems analysis; $43,653 for those with a degree in management information systems; and $43,902 for those with a degree in information sciences and systems.
www.collegegrad.com /careers/proft49.shtml   (2999 words)

  
 Legal Memo Concerning Daubert Test
Fourth, we scientists show that under the Daubert Test one may expect to restore success to civil rights law by showing that its accelerating failure starting with the Bakke decision and continuing through recent rulings on Proposition 209 is traced to what is now the unlawful Frye Test.
Discoveries by systems scientists during 1904-12 were relied upon to design cybernetic controls for the use of economic laws to engineer remedies to past economic injustice suffered by either economic classes (such as the middle class and poor) or non-economic classes (such as African Americans, Latinos, women and others).
History is replete with cases where the survival of nations was threatened because the justice system was a prisoner of erroneous teachings of social scientists.
happybob.com /econjustice/articles/lawcmemo_snt.htm   (4225 words)

  
 Computer scientists identify future IT challenges | InfoWorld | News | 2005-01-25 | By Peter Sayer, IDG News Service
A group of British computer scientists have proposed a number of "grand challenges" for IT that they hope will drive forward research, similar to the way the human genome project drove life sciences research through the 1990s.
Some of the challenges identified by the academics are of commercial interest to the computer industry, most notably the development of dependable systems, and of systems that model or behave like living organisms.
To achieve the goal of building dependable computer systems, the scientists suggest building a verifying compiler, a tool that proves automatically that a program is correct before allowing it to run -- something first written about in the 1950s.
www.infoworld.com /article/05/01/25/HNfuturechallenges_1.html   (1395 words)

  
 IIASA - Laxenburg, Austria
For a trial period, IIASA is offering podcasts of lectures by leading scientists that have taken place at the institute.The two lectures offered so far are part of this summer's Young Scientist Summer Program, which attracts up to 50 young scientists each year to do research at IIASA.
Arkady Kryashimskiy, leader of IIASA's Dynamic Systems Program, has been elected member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and given the prestigious title of Academician.
Thomas B. Johansson (Professor of energy systems analysis and Director of the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at the University of Lund, Sweden, and Senior Advisor on Energy and Climate Change to the United Nations Development Programme / UNDP).
www.iiasa.ac.at   (488 words)

  
 Find in a Library: Game theory : lectures for economists and systems scientists
Game theory : lectures for economists and systems scientists
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