Potentiality, Entanglement and Passion-at-a-Distance is a book for theoretical physicists and philosophers of modern physics. It treats a puzzling and provocative aspect of recent quantum physics: the apparent interaction of certain physical events that cannot share any causal connection. These are said to be entangled' in some way, but an explanation remains elusive. Abner Shimony - to whom the book is dedicated - and others suggest the need to revive the category of what may be seen as a metaphysical potentiality. Abner has described these events without actions to link them as...

Intended for scholars in the fields of philosophy, history of science and music, this book examines the legacy of the historical coincidence of the emergence of science and opera in the early modern period. But instead of regarding them as finished products or examining their genesis, or common ground', or parallel' ideas, opera and science are explored by a phenomenology of the formulations of consciousness (Gurwitsch) as compossible tasks to be accomplished in common (Schutz) which share an ideal possibility or essence' (Husserl). Although the ideas of Galileo and Monteverdi form the...

This volume contains the edited version of lectures and selected research contributions presented at the NATO ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE on ADVANCES IN FATIGUE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. held in Alvor. Portugal, 4th to 15th of April 1988. and organized by CEMUL - Center of Mechanics and Materials of The Technical University of Lisbon. The Institute was attended by 101 participants, including 15 lecturers. from 14 countries. The participants were leading scientists and engineers from universities, research institutions and industry. and also Ph.D students. Some participants presented papers during...

IAU Transactions XXIIB summarizes the work of the XXIInd General Assembly. The discourses given during the Inaugural and Closing Ceremonies are reproduced in Chapters I and III, respectively. The proceedings of the two sessions of the General Assembly will be found in Chapter II, which includes the Resolutions and the report of the Finance Committee. The Statutes, Bye-Laws and a few working rules of the Union are published in Chapter IV. The Accounts and other aspects of the administration of the Union are recorded in Chapter V, together with the report of the Executive Committee for...

The meeting encompassed all Euclidean quantum field theory descriptions that make direct reference to concepts from probability theory and statistical mechanics. Contributors examine the space-time discretized lattice field theories, and present optimized techniques that combine features of ordinary"

The Translator's Workbench Project was a European Community sponsored research and development project which dealt with issues in multi-lingual communication and docu mentation. This book presents an integrated toolset as a solution to problems in translation and docu mentation. Professional translators and teachers of translation were involved in the proc ess of software development, starting with a detailed study of the user requirements and ending with several evaluation-and-improvement cycles of the resulting toolset. English, German, Greek, and Spanish are addressed in the contributions,...

Part one comprises 12 lectures. A recurring theme in a number of the lectures is the Yang-Baxter relation which characterizes a very large class in integrable systems, including many state models, two-dimensional conformal field theory, quantum field theory, and quantum gravity in 2+1 dimensions. Pa

Researchers report their latest findings and theories on nitrated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and aromatic amines, focussing on their role as environmental carcinogens and mutagens. The 27 papers and conference summary cover epidemiology and carcinogenesis, chemistry, detection, and occurrence.

Nearly 50 papers discuss an array of topics related to microorganisms that can withstand, and even prefer, environments with very high salt concentrations. Bypassing the biophysics of the halobacterial retinal proteins, which has become its own large and specialized field, the sections cover taxonom

Reviews the current knowledge and theory about atherosclerosis, in which plaque builds up on the inner artery wall. The 19 papers focus on the cellular and molecular biology of interactions among vascular and blood cells, their products, serum constituents, blood flow, and vessel wall constituents.