1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996466035103316

Titolo

DNA Computing and Molecular Programming [[electronic resource] ] : 19th International Conference, DNA 2013, Tempe, AZ, USA, September 22-27, 2013, Proceedings / / edited by David Soloveichik, Bernard Yurke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013

ISBN

3-319-01928-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 205 p. 73 illus.)

Collana

Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues, , 2512-2029 ; ; 8141

Disciplina

621.391

Soggetti

Computer science

Algorithms

Bioinformatics

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence—Data processing

Computer science—Mathematics

Discrete mathematics

Theory of Computation

Computational and Systems Biology

Artificial Intelligence

Data Science

Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Extending DNA-Sticker Arithmetic to Arbitrary Size Using Staples -- Parallel Computation Using Active Self-assembly -- DNA Walker Circuits: Computational Potential, Design, and Verification -- Leaderless Deterministic Chemical Reaction Networks -- DNA Sticky End Design and Assignment for Robust Algorithmic Self-assembly -- DNA Reservoir Computing: A Novel Molecular Computing Approach -- Signal Transmission across Tile Assemblies: 3D Static Tiles Simulate Active Self-assembly by 2D Signal-Passing Tiles -- 3-Color Bounded



Patterned Self-assembly (Extended Abstract) -- Exponential Replication of Patterns in the Signal Tile Assembly Model -- Modular Verification of DNA Strand Displacement Networks via Serializability Analysis -- Iterative Self-assembly with Dynamic Strength Transformation and Temperature Control -- Probabilistic Reasoning with an Enzyme-Driven DNA Device -- Staged Self-assembly and Polyomino Context-Free Grammars -- Functional Analysis of Large-Scale DNA Strand Displacement Circuits.

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming, DNA 19, held in Tempe, AZ, USA, in September 2013. The 14 full papers presented were carefully selected from 29 submissions. The papers are organized in many disciplines (including mathematics, computer science, physics, chemistry, material science and biology) to address the analysis, design, and synthesis of information-based molecular systems.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779676903321

Autore

Kennedy Dane Keith

Titolo

The last blank spaces [[electronic resource] ] : exploring Africa and Australia / / Dane Kennedy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-674-07501-3

0-674-07497-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 353 pages ) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

916.0089/21

Soggetti

Explorers - Great Britain - History

British - Africa - History

British - Australia - History

Africa Discovery and exploration British

Australia Discovery and exploration British

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Formerly CIP.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps and Illustrations -- Chapter 1. Continents -- Chapter 2. Sciences -- Chapter 3. Professionals -- Chapter 4. Gateways -- Chapter 5. Logistics -- Chapter 6. Intermediaries -- Chapter 7. Encounters -- Chapter 8. Celebrities -- Epilogue -- Comparative Timeline of African and Australian Expeditions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

For a British Empire that stretched across much of the globe at the start of the nineteenth century, the interiors of Africa and Australia remained intriguing mysteries. The challenge of opening these continents to imperial influence fell to a proto-professional coterie of determined explorers. They sought knowledge, adventure, and fame, but often experienced confusion, fear, and failure. The Last Blank Spaces follows the arc of these explorations, from idea to practice, from intention to outcome, from myth to reality. Those who conducted the hundreds of expeditions that probed Africa and Australia in the nineteenth century adopted a mode of scientific investigation that had been developed by previous generations of seaborne explorers. They likened the two continents to oceans, empty spaces that could be made truly knowable only by mapping, measuring, observing, and preserving. They found, however, that their survival and success depended less on this system of universal knowledge than it did on the local knowledge possessed by native peoples. While explorers sought to advance the interests of Britain and its emigrant communities, Dane Kennedy discovers a more complex outcome: expeditions that failed ignominiously, explorers whose loyalties proved ambivalent or divided, and, above all, local states and peoples who diverted expeditions to serve their own purposes. The collisions, and occasional convergences, between British and indigenous values, interests, and modes of knowing the world are brought to the fore in this fresh and engaging study.