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NEW YORK, Oct. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Though New York and London lead cumulative scoring, emerging cities, including Beijing and Shanghai, are narrowing the gap within key economic indicators, according to the fifth edition of Cities of Opportunity released today by PwC and the Partnership for New York City.
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While New York officially edges out London by one point across 10 economic indicators, the city wins in no individual category. Toronto, which finishes third, also shows great balance yet wins no category. London, however, takes the lead in "city gateway," an indicator introduced this year that measures global interconnectedness and international attraction. Rounding out the leaders are Paris, which advances four spots from 2011 to number four, and Stockholm at number five.
In addition to looking at the current performance of 27 cities that are global capitals of finance, commerce and culture, the study for the first time analyzes city employment in the most significant and telling job sectors and projects the trajectory of the cities in jobs, economic output, and population to 2025.
"Cities succeed when they invest in core needs important to both people and businesses," said Bob Moritz, PwC's US Chairman and Senior Partner. "When a city invests continuously and aggressively in critical areas, including education, healthcare, safety and infrastructure, it creates a healthy urban environment. Entrepreneurs and businesses thrive, the city economy grows, and long-term resiliency follows."
"The Cities of Opportunity report is a detailed and insightful analysis of how leading global cities stack up against one another," said Partnership for New York City President and CEO Kathryn Wylde. "New York City and London, along with other established cities, maintain their top status because of a depth and diversity of strength across all measures. But the true value of this report is not just the rankings; it is that every city can learn from one another about what works when building a 21st century city."
The Cities of Opportunity key indicators and top three cities within are:
The full report, along with in-depth video interviews with leaders who offer their analysis of its findings, including E.O. Wilson, emeritus professor of entomology at Harvard, and Bill Bratton, former New York and Los Angeles chief of police, is available at http://www.pwc.com/cities.
Emerging Cities Advance
Beijing advanced to the top spot in "economic clout" while Shanghai placed fifth behind Paris, London, and New York. This is the first time two emerging cities appeared in the top five of this indicator category.
Beijing and Shanghai are also in the top five in a new category, "city gateway," along with London, Paris, and New York. Balanced progress across a range of social and economic indicators represents the next step for these cities in transforming exceptional growth into sustainable performance for these emerging cities.
Where the Jobs Are
For the first time, the 2012 report provides an in-depth look at some of the most significant and telling job sectors, now and looking ahead to 2025. The financial and business services, manufacturing, and wholesale and retail sectors anchor many city economies in 2012. Financial and business services when grouped together account for more than a third of the jobs in Milan, Paris, London, Beijing, San Francisco and Stockholm. One in three Shanghai jobs today is in manufacturing, although the study projects the city shifting to a more diversified economy by 2025. Wholesale and retail make up more than 20 percent of the workforce in Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Moscow, Mumbai, Mexico City and Istanbul. New York leads the world in healthcare employment with nearly 16 percent of its workforce in the field, while Abu Dhabi takes the lead in hospitality and tourism.
Our Cities Tomorrow
Future employment and economic risks for the 27 cities are pinpointed in a new section that projects a 2025 baseline scenario and several "what if" models, including:
The study's baseline scenario projects that by 2025 an additional 19 million individuals will live and 13.7 million will work in the cities. They will generate an additional US $3.3 trillion in gross domestic product—all predicated on a world of modest growth. At the same time, the wealth divide will remain much the same in 2025 as it does today. Population and employment will surge in cities like Beijing, Mumbai, Istanbul and Sao Paulo. Mature cities will maintain greater spending power and the consumer and corporate demand that drives emerging economies. Mutual self-interest would logically unite emerging and mature cities as one side continues to need the other.
Despite the rise of emerging cities in key indicators, Cities of Opportunity details some of the long-term challenges facing developing cities due to rapid growth. For example, both Beijing and Shanghai will need to devote roughly 42 percent of GDP to infrastructure between now and 2025 to accommodate growth while cities like London and New York only need to invest 17 percent and 20 percent, respectively.
Cities of Opportunity is a continually evolving project created for cities, their leaders, businesses, and citizens seeking to improve their economies and quality of life. The report is based on publicly available information supported by extensive research. Three main sources are used: Global multilateral development organizations such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, national statistics organizations, such as UK National Statistics and the US Census Bureau, and commercial data providers. The data were collected during the latter half of 2011 and first quarter of 2012. In the majority of cases, the figures used in the study refer to 2010 and 2011 data. In some cases, national data are used as a proxy for city data. Care has been taken to ensure that, where used, national data closely reflects city data. The scoring methodology was developed to ensure transparency and simplicity, as well as comparability across cities.
Taking the data for each individual variable, the 27 cities are sorted from the best performing to the lowest performing. The cities are then assigned a score from 27 (best performing) to 1 (lowest performing). Once all 60 variables are ranked and scored, they are placed into their 10 indicators. Within each group, the variable scores are then summed to produce an overall indicator score for that topic. This produces 10 indicator league tables that display the relative performance of our 27 cities.
Methodology presented for The City Tomorrow section can be found on page 20 of the report.
About the PwC Network
PwC firms help organizations and individuals create the value they're looking for. We're a network of firms in 158 countries with close to 169,000 people who are committed to delivering quality in assurance, tax and advisory services. Tell us what matters to you and find out more by visiting us at www.pwc.com.
© 2012 PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, a Delaware limited liability partnership. All rights reserved. PwC refers to the US member firm, and may sometimes refer to the PwC network. Each member firm is a separate legal entity. Please see www.pwc.com/structure for further details.
About The Partnership for New York City
The Partnership for New York City's (www.pfnyc.org) mission is to engage the business community in efforts to advance the economy of New York City and maintain the city's position as the center of world commerce, finance and innovation. Through the Partnership for New York City Fund, the Partnership contributes directly to projects that create jobs, improve economically distressed communities and stimulate new business creation. Partnership companies account for nearly seven million American jobs and contribute over $740 billion to the national GDP.
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Ken Maynard
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The Story Of Hollywood's First Singing Cowboy
From humble beginnings in the Ohio River town of Vevay in southern Indiana, Kenneth Olin Maynard became a Twentieth Century Renaissance Man -- a horseman of the highest order who parlayed his riding and roping skills into rodeo championships, circus and Wild West showmanship and, ultimately, to the highest reaches of Hollywood fame and fortune. As the Twenties roared to a close and America fell into the depths of the Depression, Maynard's star continued to rise, and in 1929 he used another of his latent talents, music, to become the country's first celluloid 'Singing Cowboy,' warbling the Western classic, The Lone Star Trail in Universal's 'The Wagon Master.'
The following spring, on April 14, 1930, Maynard accompanied himself on guitar during his only professional recording session, producing eight sides in Columbia's Hollywood studios. Only one record was released – Columbia 2310-D – billing Maynard as 'The American Boy's Favorite Cowboy,' and featuring, along with The Lone Star Trail, another Western staple from the John Lomax songbook, The Cowboy's Lament. The record was not a commercial success, but over time these two modest sides made their mark, with Trail finding its way onto the iconic collection, the 'Anthology Of American Folk Music' in 1952, where editor Harry Smith deemed "this passionate description of life" to be "one of the very few recordings of authentic 'cowboy' singing."
A half century later, rock critic Greil Marcus used an extended discussion of the 'Anthology' as the backdrop for his book-length exploration of Bob Dylan's 'Basement Tapes' in The Old, Weird America. Equating Maynard's recording of The Lone Star Trail with "the truest, highest, most abandoned moments in American speech," Marcus says of the recording: "With a passion words and melody can elicit but not account for, movie star Ken Maynard…ambles out the soundtrack of 'The Wagon Master' to chant and moan, yodel and wail, stare and tremble, more alone, more stoic and more restless between heaven and nature, than anyone has before. The shape of the land, its vast expanse, its indifference to who you are or what you want, looms up as this solitary figure says his piece: I am the first cowboy and I am the last. Here no one sees me, myself least of all, I am happy, I am free."
Trail, Lament and a third track, Home On The Range, made their way onto obscure collections of Western recordings over the years,[i] but the remaining five sides from the Columbia session are seeing their first commercial release here, more than seventy-five years later.
Although he was born and raised in the small-town Midwest (not Mission, Texas, as he and his studio biographers claimed), Maynard's professional experience as a circus and Wild West showman qualified him as an 'authentic' cowboy, who used his skills (and those of his beautiful palomino, Tarzan) to set new standards for horsemanship in Western film. Maynard followed up on the musical experiment of 'The Wagon Master' by incorporating music in a series of films culminating with 'The Strawberry Roan' in 1933, a film that brought music into a dramatic storyline strategically and effectively, giving rise to techniques still used today from film musicals to music videos. In many ways, 'The Strawberry Roan' was Maynard's crowning achievement, and a film he remembered fondly even in his last days in 1973.
Ken Maynard's restless and creative mind also had its dark and dependent side. Increasingly torn by the dichotomy between his on-screen image and off-screen realities, his affection for alcohol became an addiction, fueling a hot temper that alienated him from the Hollywood machine that had made him a wealthy man. Into this breach stepped a young Gene Autry, who had moved to Los Angeles from the WLS Barn Dance radio show in Chicago in 1934. Autry's breakthrough performance in 'In Old Santa Fe' put him in a position to build the singing cowboy experiment into a bona fide genre he then commanded for decades. Before any of that could happen however, Ken Maynard laid the groundwork with a vision, guitar, fiddle and a high lonesome nasal twang that has echoed through the years.
In the life of Ken Maynard we encounter an early Twentieth Century America, brimming with possibility and fortune, especially for those able to translate the developing frontier myth into the 'West' of our popular imagination. Maynard caught that wave and fell to earth, but, like a true cowboy hero, dusted himself off, got back in the saddle, and rode a slow fade into the sunset until the ripe old age of 78, leaving a lasting impact on the worlds of film, music and Western showmanship.
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Home On The Ohio
Our story begins in the tiny town of Vevay, just blocks from the banks of the mighty Ohio River, in southern-most Indiana, on July 21, 1895. The stately B. F. Schenk Mansion stood on a bluff above the town, boasting a commanding view of the river as it bent west and then south toward its confluence with the Mississippi and on to New Orleans. Schenk's father, known as the 'Hay King' for his hold on the market for processing the commodity into bundles for shipping down river, had built his own manse, a brick, white-pillared home on the riverbank. In between these stately homes lay the flats of Vevay, where Emma Mae Maynard (nee Stewart),a carpenter's wife, labored at home with the birth of her first child, Kenneth Olin Maynard.
By this time Vevay was a bustling river town, lying in Switzerland County, named for the primary settlers of the area, who had come from the Jura Mountains of Switzerland in the early 1800s, establishing farms and vineyards, and harvesting the fertile woodlands of southern Indiana. As local commerce developed, merchant entrepreneurs like the Schenks became established, trading with local farmers, and servicing the area with groceries, dry goods, hardware and lumber, as well as finished goods brought in from markets to the east.
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Pickles the giant rescue cat has finally found a home with a loving family.
Pickles the giant rescue cat has finally found a home with a loving family.
Poor Pickles didn't get the easiest start in life. He was abandoned by the side of the road by his original owners when he was just a little kitten.
Since then he's proved to be quite the handful for other owners. So much so that he's had to be re-homed twice because they couldn't cope with him.
His luck finally changed when graphic designer Andrew Milicia and his girlfriend Emily Zervos arrived at the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Boston. The couple fell in love with the Catasaurus Rex, and were astounded by his size, even though Pickles himself was totally unaware of it!
'He really doesn't know his size at all,' laughs Emily, 'He thinks he's just like a little kitten still!'
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So the 3-year-old feline finally found a happy home, as Andrew and Emily were chosen out of 50 applicants to adopt him.
Pickles is around 40in long, and weighs 21lb. 'He's probably bigger than a lot of small dogs,' says Andrew, while Emily adds that picking him up is a real workout. Whereas most cats perch comfortably on the arm of a sofa, Pickles will happily stretch out and take up a whole section to himself.
His personality is no smaller than his body, as Emily explains that he's quite the ladies man. Pickles loves to dance and cuddle with her on the sofa, but he's still quite grumpy around other cats, and certainly doesn't play well.
But Pickles has made himself right at home with his loving new family. Andrew and Emily can't imagine life without him.
'Pickles is part of our family,' says Emily, 'Hes our son and we love him.'
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SYDNEY – Finance chiefs from the 20 largest economies agreed Sunday to implement policies that will boost world GDP by more than $2 trillion over the coming five years.
Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey, who hosted the Group of 20 meeting in Sydney, said the commitment from the G-20 finance ministers and central bankers was "unprecedented."
The world economy has sputtered since the 2008 financial crisis and global recession that followed. Progress in returning economic growth to pre-crisis levels has been hampered by austerity policies in Europe, high unemployment in the U.S. and a cooling of China's torrid expansion.
The centerpiece of the $2 trillion commitment made at the Sydney meeting is to boost the combined gross domestic product of G-20 countries by 2 per cent above the levels expected for the next five years, possibly creating tens of millions of new jobs. World GDP was about $72 trillion in 2012.
The G-20 combines the world's major industrialized and developing countries from the United States to Saudi Arabia and China, representing about 85 per cent of the global economy.
The communique from the meeting said signs of improvement in the global economy are welcome but growth remains below the rates needed to get people back into work and to meet their aspirations.
The G-20 said it would "significantly raise global growth" without overtaxing national finance through measures to promote competition and increase investment, employment and trade.
As an initial step toward achieving the $2 trillion target, each country will present a comprehensive growth strategy to a summit of leaders scheduled for November in the Australian city of Brisbane.
The International Monetary Fund forecasts the world economy will grow 3.7 per cent this year. It said the G-20 plan could lift annual world economic growth by half a percentage point for the next five years.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said the agreement is significant and crucial to "turning the next page" in the global economic recovery.
"G-20 members have spoken clearly: boosting growth and demand tops the global economic agenda" Lew said in a statement.
Hockey, the Australian treasurer, said there was intensive discussion about the challenges each country faces in boosting investment, particularly in infrastructure. He said there is much that governments can do to boost private investment by having predictable policies and regulations.
On monetary policy, G-20 members said they recognized it needs to remain accommodative for growth in many industrialized countries but should return to normal settings "in due course" depending on the outlook for inflation and GDP.
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The Federal Reserve's recent decision to begin scaling back its monetary stimulus jolted global financial markets, particularly stocks which benefited in the past several years from record low interest rates and money created by bond buying policies.
The meeting didn't make any specific commitments to helping developing nations manage volatility in their financial markets stemming from the Fed's stance. It said G-20 nations should consistently communicate their actions and co-operate in "managing spillovers" to other countries.
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Jaffe: Here's Some Really Stupid Investments
In nearly ten years of writing an investment column, Chuck Jaffe has seen some bad investment idea. He joins Markets Hub with a look at the worst of the worst. Photo: Getty Images.
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Barcelona is a great place to live and a fantastic city for live music, as the two previous columns in this series hoped to demonstrate. Aside from the big summer festivals like Sónar and Primavera Sound, it is also home to a burgeoning music scene of its own. The idea behind this installment is to highlight some acts that might not receive much press outside Spain (or even Catalonia), but are very much part of the local firmament.
The focus is on Ornitorrincos, a website dreamt up by Adrià Ramírez and Víctor Fernández of local advertising agency Miss Alabama, which is fast becoming an essential stop-off point for bands and singers here – a kind of Spanish La Blogothèque, if you like. We spoke to Victor about the site, the city and local acts worth looking out for…
DiS: How did you come up with the idea for the website, and when did it launch?
Víctor Fernández: We wanted to develop some kind of tool for music promotion while also generating recognition of our agency, Miss Alabama (an advertising agency specialising in music). We had some experience; two years booking live music at Alfa en Viu, a club in the Gràcia neighbourhood, and we had also made some video clips.
But we wanted to create something different, something that would become like a kind of product itself. We thought about it for a long time, and really loved what websites like La Blogothèque or Black Cab Sessions were doing. So, we decided to make something in this style, but with its own aesthetic.
That's how we came up with the idea of Ornitorrincos. It's really simple: we arrange to get two different bands together in order to create a mashup of their songs, which we then shoot, obtaining a new and unique song in the process. Miss Alabama has been great in terms of getting to know people in the music business, and for the bands it's a great way to create something new and interesting for their fans and themselves. In December we'll be a year old – we're really happy with how it's gone so far.
The name 'Ornitorrincos' means 'platypus' in Spanish, and comes from the idea of a mix; two different components, as the platypus is of course a completely unique, semi-aquatic, egg-laying mammal.
DiS: Where do the majority of the acts who perform Ornitorrincos come from?
VF: In the beginning we did some research and asked a few local bands and labels if they would like get involved. It's a strange idea, so we had to explain it accurately. Now the site has become popular here in Catalonia it's much easier to arrange a new video.
DiS: Could you tell us about some of your favourite local bands or singers?
VF: My favourite local band is Standstill, an indie band who are brilliant live. Their lyrics and ideas are fantastic; they tell really powerful stories with their music, which I think should be a "must" for any singer or band.
We're really lucky: nowadays the local music scene in Catalonia is growing a lot. There are acts like Joan Colomo, Maria Rodés, Mujeres, El Petit de Cal Eril, Manos de Topo, Pau Vallvé, Inspira and Guillamino, who all represent new and interesting takes on Catalan music. Some of them have recorded an Ornitorrinco, too.
DiS: Which groups out of Catalonia have gone on to bigger success in recent years?
VF: There are lots of bands like Mishima, Manel, Love of Lesbian, The New Raemon, Antònia Font (from the Balearics), Sidonie and De La Fé who have all done really well.
DiS: Which have been your favourite sessions for the website?
VF: Our first session, with Arizona Baby and the Midnight Travellers, felt really special. Arizona Baby are a great Spanish band and the Midnight Travellers are a renowned local rock'n'roll act. They're all fantastic musicians, the session went really well, and of course, it was our first one, so…
We also recently shot a band called Hewel from Lleida collaborating with more than 40 people in order to make a "batucada" – that was one of the stranger ones, which will be featured on the website very soon.
DiS: Are there any artists or groups you would love to work with but haven't yet?
VF: We'd love to do an Ornitorrincos with some of the bands I mentioned before, like Standstill or Love of Lesbian – with luck it looks like it might happen within a few months.
DiS: You also run a club night, right? Could you tell us a bit about it?
VF: We've been booking live music every Thursday night in a club called Alfa en Viu since July 2008, and have featured most of the emerging acts in the city. Alfa is a small, stylish club in Gràcia where bands like to play, often acoustically.
DiS: Let's talk about the city in general. Where are your favourite places to see live music in Barcelona?
VF: Barcelona is a big city, so you'll find live music every day. There are some big venues like Apolo or RazzMatazz which usually host international bands every weekend, alongside medium-sized venues like Sidecar, Bikini or Jamboree, where you can see a lot of different bands, local or foreign.
There are other places like Alfa en Viu (of course!), Fantástico or Heliogàbal, where local bands generally play smaller, more intimate shows.
DiS: Apart from the "big two" festivals, what else does Barcelona have to offer?
VF: Barcelona never really sleeps. Any week of the year there'll be some kind of interesting concert happening, you just have to check out a few of the venues' lineups. If you are here in the summer, there are smaller festivals like Faraday, Cruïlla, Pop Arb or Hipnotik which are all in or near the city, and all have excellent line-ups of local and international talent.
DiS: Lots of Brits head over here for Sónar or Primavera Sound and combine their stay with a holiday in the city. What non-music things would you recommend they try to do while they're here? What are your favourite places in the city?
VF: We recommend some sightseeing in the Barrio Gòtic area, ideally with a guide – the neighbourhood is old and there's a lot to take in! Another special place in the city is Montjuic, which is full of amazing buildings like Mies van der Rohe, beautiful gardens and an incredible panoramic view of the city.
DiS: What other things from Barcelona – websites, magazines or anything, really – would you recommend music fans investigate?
VF: If they are in town, we recommend visiting C/Tallers, a small street just off the top of La Rambla, where there are some great independent music shops.
Visit Ornitorrincos here or on YouTube.
And here, some of the artists mentioned above, from the lush orchestral sweep of local heroes Standstill –
– to the sweet acoustic pop of Maria Rodés –
– the warm horns and driving melodies of Manel (also: see them perform a Catalan take on Pulp's 'Common People' in Barcelona's famous La Boqueria market here) –
– the tricksy, distinctive melancholy of Joan Colomo –
– to the stirring indie-folk of Olivemoon, not actually mentioned in the interview, but lovely all the same:
And some pigeons in Plaça Catalunya. Because why not?
Thanks to Victor, Adri and all at Ornitorrincos


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Kentucky Tort Journal Signs Off
April 22, 2009
After several years, several changes, and more than several posts it is with a heavy heart that I advise my readers that the Kentucky Tort Journal is signing off. I will no longer be posting or updating original posts or decisions.
Kentucky Tort Journal was my first attempt at blogging. Starting in 2004, my goal was to find a platform where I could express my thoughts about events, articles, cases and decisions that dealt with my area of practice. I also wanted to explore the new medium and had great hopes for its use among lawyers. Many of my contemporaries have also faded into the blogosphere, leaving behind remnants in time of their thoughts about whatever topic they chose to write. Perhaps that is the fate of the KTJ. It is somewhat interesting to know that while the journal is no more, my thoughts and opinions will linger like graffiti on an old wall in an old town. Passed rarely, if ever, but there nonetheless, its true impact forever lost to its time and those who lived it, one day to be replaced by something else, something new.
While I am officially signing off, I will keep publishing the blog, at least for the time being, as a kind of archive. There is simply too much information, too many hours, to much hard work and thought to simply turn out the lights. Perhaps one day, but for now I'll just leave the light on and shut the door.
I still have great hopes for blogs and the bloggers who blog them. Whle I am wrapping up this chapter, I am readily involved in opening another. I encourage each of you to view my new blog; Kentucky Accident Information at http://kyaccidentinfo.com. Look around and check back. While something quite different than the KTJ, I think it's truly the next frontier for blogs in the legal field.
I want to end by thanking each of you who supported me throughout the past four years. I am always amazed at the number of attorneys who read my stuff and the good things they had to say. I can't begin to say enough about the good friends I met through this blog, so I won't. I'll just say thank you to them too.
So, thank you all. God Bless. Good night and good luck.


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In robotics, information is often regarded as a means to an end. The question of how to structure information and how to bridge the semantic gap between different levels of abstraction in a uniform way is still widely regarded as a technical issue. Ignoring these challenges appears to lead robotics into a similar stasis as experienced in the software industry of the late 1960s. From the beginning of the software crisis until today, numerous methods, techniques, and tools for managing the increasing complexity of software systems have evolved. The attempt to transfer several of these ideas towards applications in robotics yielded various control architectures, frameworks, and process models. These attempts mainly provide modularisation schemata which suggest how to decompose a complex system into less complex subsystems. The schematisation of representation and information flow however is mostly ignored. In this work, a set of design schemata is proposed which is embedded into an action/perception-oriented design methodology to promote thorough abstractions between distinct levels of control. Action-oriented design decomposes control systems top-down and sensor data is extracted from the environment as required. This comes with the problem that information is often condensed in a premature fashion. That way, sensor processing is dependent on the control system design resulting in a monolithical system structure with limited options for reusability. In contrast, perception-oriented design constructs control systems bottom-up starting with the extraction of environment information from sensor data. The extracted entities are placed into structures which evolve with the development of the sensor processing algorithms. In consequence, the control system is strictly dependent on the sensor processing algorithms which again results in a monolithic system. In their particular domain, both design approaches have great advantages but fail to create inherently modular systems. The design approach proposed in this work combines the strengths of action orientation and perception orientation into one coherent methodology without inheriting their weaknesses. More precisely, design schemata for representation, translation, and fusion of environmental information are developed which establish thorough abstraction mechanisms between components. The explicit introduction of abstractions particularly supports extensibility and scalability of robot control systems by design.
It has been observed that for understanding the biological function of certain RNA molecules, one has to study joint secondary structures of interacting pairs of RNA. In this thesis, a new approach for predicting the joint structure is proposed and implemented. For this, we introduce the class of m-dimensional context-free grammars --- an extension of stochastic context-free grammars to multiple dimensions --- and present an Earley-style semiring parser for this class. Additionally, we develop and thoroughly discuss an implementation variant of Earley parsers tailored to efficiently handle dense grammars, which embraces the grammars used for structure prediction. A currently proposed partitioning scheme for joint secondary structures is transferred into a two-dimensional context-free grammar, which in turn is used as a stochastic model for RNA-RNA interaction. This model is trained on actual data and then used for predicting most likely joint structures for given RNA molecules. While this technique has been widely used for secondary structure prediction of single molecules, RNA-RNA interaction was hardly approached this way in the past. Although our parser has O(n^3 m^3) time complexity and O(n^2 m^2) space complexity for two RNA molecules of sizes n and m, it remains practically applicable for typical sizes if enough memory is available. Experiments show that our parser is much more efficient for this application than classical Earley parsers. Moreover the predictions of joint structures are comparable in quality to current energy minimization approaches.
Ever since Mark Weiser's vision of Ubiquitous Computing the importance of context has increased in the computer science domain. Future Ambient Intelligent Environments will assist humans in their everyday activities, even without them being constantly aware of it. Objects in such environments will have small computers embedded into them which have the ability to predict human needs from the current context and adapt their behavior accordingly. This vision equally applies to future production environments. In modern factories workers and technical staff members are confronted with a multitude of devices from various manufacturers, all with different user interfaces, interaction concepts and degrees of complexity. Production processes are highly dynamic, whole modules can be exchanged or restructured. Both factors force users to continuously change their mental model of the environment. This complicates their workflows and leads to avoidable user errors or slips in judgement. In an Ambient Intelligent Production Environment these challenges have to be approached. The SmartMote is a universal control device for ambient intelligent production environments like the SmartFactoryKL. It copes with the problems mentioned above by integrating all the user interfaces into a single, holistic and mobile device. Following an automated Model-Based User Interface Development (MBUID) process it generates a fully functional graphical user interface from an abstract task-based description of the environment during run-time. This work introduces an approach to integrating context, namely the user's location, as an adaptation basis into the MBUID process. A Context Model is specified, which stores location information in a formal and precise way. Connected sensors continuously update the model with new values. The model is complemented by a reasoning component which uses an extensible set of rules. These rules are used to derive more abstract context information from basic sensor data and for providing this information to the MBUID process. The feasibility of the approach is shown by using the example of Interaction Zones, which let developers describe different task models depending on the user's location. Using the context model to determine when a user enters or leaves a zone, the generator can adapt the graphical user interface accordingly. Context-awareness and the potential to adapt to the current context of use are key requirements of applications in ambient intelligent environments. The approach presented here provides a clear procedure and extension scheme for the consideration of additional context types. As context has significant influence on the overall User Experience, this results not only in a better usefulness, but also in an improved usability of the SmartMote.
A prime motivation for using XML to directly represent pieces of information is the ability of supporting ad-hoc or 'schema-later' settings. In such scenarios, modeling data under loose data constraints is essential. Of course, the flexibility of XML comes at a price: the absence of a rigid, regular, and homogeneous structure makes many aspects of data management more challenging. Such malleable data formats can also lead to severe information quality problems, because the risk of storing inconsistent and incorrect data is greatly increased. A prominent example of such problems is the appearance of the so-called fuzzy duplicates, i.e., multiple and non-identical representations of a real-world entity. Similarity joins correlating XML document fragments that are similar can be used as core operators to support the identification of fuzzy duplicates. However, similarity assessment is especially difficult on XML datasets because structure, besides textual information, may exhibit variations in document fragments representing the same real-world entity. Moreover, similarity computation is substantially more expensive for tree-structured objects and, thus, is a serious performance concern. This thesis describes the design and implementation of an effective, flexible, and high-performance XML-based similarity join framework. As main contributions, we present novel structure-conscious similarity functions for XML trees - either considering XML structure in isolation or combined with textual information -, mechanisms to support the selection of relevant information from XML trees and organization of this information into a suitable format for similarity calculation, and efficient algorithms for large-scale identification of similar, set-represented objects. Finally, we validate the applicability of our techniques by integrating our framework into a native XML database management system; in this context we address several issues around the integration of similarity operations into traditional database architectures.
In this article we present a method to generate random objects from a large variety of combinatorial classes according to a given distribution. Given a description of the combinatorial class and a set of sample data our method will provide an algorithm that generates objects of size n in worst-case runtime O(n^2) (O(n log(n)) can be achieved at the cost of a higher average-case runtime), with the generated objects following a distribution that closely matches the distribution of the sample data.
We tackle the problem of obtaining statistics on content and structure of XML documents by using summaries which may provide cardinality estimations for XML query expressions. Our focus is a data-centric processing scenario in which we use a query engine to process such query expressions. We provide three new summary structures called LESS (Leaf-Element-in-Subtree), LWES (Level-Wide Element Summarization), and EXsum (Element-centered XML Summarization) which are targeted to base an estimation process in an XML query optimizer. Each of these collects structural statistical information of XML documents, and the latter (EXsum) gathers, in addition, statistics on document content. Estimation procedures and/or heuristics for specic types of query expressions of each proposed approach are developed. We have incorporated and implemented our proposals in XTC, a native XML database management system (XDBMS). With this common implementation base, we present an empirical and comparative study in which our proposals are stressed against others published in the literature, which are also incorporated into the XTC. Furthermore, an analysis is made based on criteria pertinent to a query optimizer process.


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Asian-Americans outraged over racist Google app
Asian-American groups in the US are demanding from Google to remove an application (app) from its Google Play store called "Make Me Asian" which allows users to alter their photos to resemble Asian stereotypes.
A similar app called "Make Me Indian" has also received criticism.
"These apps perpetuate hateful and offensive stereotypes that are used to this very day to marginalise and humiliate Asians and Native Americans," wrote Washington pastor Peter Chin on the website change.org, where he has started a petition for the apps to be taken down.
"They are not funny, and their use highlights a vicious double standard, where people are allowed to characterise" both groups "in a way that they never would do to other races," Chin wrote about the series of Android phone apps created by designer Kimbery Deiss.
"You can for a few seconds to make himself a Chinese, Japanese, Korean," Kimbery Deiss wrote on Google Play about the app that allows users with the click of a button to be transformed into an Asian with a Fu Manchu mustache and a rice paddy hat.
Deiss also said that by altering your photo to look like an Indian with brown skin, war paint and a feather headband that will now allow you to "not get bored!"
On the change.org website, Chin is asking that individuals sign a petition stating the apps "are racist and perpetuate false and offensive stereotypes that are hurtful to both Asian and Native American communities."
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As their greatest and most heroic project is about to bite the dust after decades of slow demolition by neglect, Alison and Peter Smithson's remaining body of work increasingly looks like the Cheshire cat's grin – exactly at the point when they seem to be vanishing they are also achieving a prominence they haven't enjoyed in decades.
Irony just isn't a strong enough word to describe the situation where two highly influential architects who devoted most of their lives to developing models for social housing will end up being represented by a school, a number of delightful but unrepresentative middle class houses, an office building and finally a shed.
But it's a great shed, and it's for sale. The whole project is near to, and reminiscent of, their own weekender, the refreshingly ascetic Upper Lawn Pavilion. It's hard to imagine a more exciting prospect for adaptive reuse – beautiful (in a rustic brutalist way), spectacular pedigree, fashionably tiny – it's got it all.
It's in the garden of the Levitt house, pretty spectacular in its own right. We found it through one of our favourite (architectural) porn sites, materialicious.
And meanwhile Owen Hatherley of sit down man you're a bloody tragedy has taken a holiday to visit the Smithson's Hunstanton Secondary Modern School, an enlightening but bleak experience by all accounts.


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The developer of Dragon Shout, a neat little iPhone app for Skyrim that we've previously covered, has been asked by Bethesda's lawyers to remove the program from the App Store "due to copyright infringement".
Blalock, the creator of the app, says that the request did not come with a cease & desist notice, nor did it explain specifically how it was violating Bethesda's copyright.
"I did my best to ensure the app was not violating anything," he tells TouchArcade. "I looked up US trademarks and copyrights for 'Dragon Shout' and at the time there wasn't any. I had the map hand drawn. I intentionally didn't use any graphics or wording that would possibly be owned by Bethesda. So, I'm still not sure what they say the app violates."
Before you ask, yes, Dragon Shout is free.
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Sen. John McCain, fans battle NFL over blackout rule
Tim Stroth grew up one town over from Ralph Wilson Stadium outside Buffalo. He bought Bills season tickets in 1989 as a Father's Day gift and estimates he has invested $30,000 watching the ups and downs of his favorite team -- four Super Bowl appearances followed by a 13-year playoff drought.
Limited mobility has prevented Norman Stroth, 86, from attending games with his son the past three seasons, during which the NFL has blacked out eight Buffalo home games because the Bills could not sell out a stadium that state and local taxpayers are subsidizing over the next 10 years to the tune of $226 million.
"Woe is me, but I don't see the logic or justification for punishing fans like my dad who can't afford the high cost of attending games or who simply want to watch their home team on TV, considering my local tax dollars are paying to operate it," Tim Stroth said in a recent interview.
"At the very least, the federal government should not be in the business of propping up blackouts."
Stroth is among 328 fans who petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to stop the NFL from blacking out games in home markets when they do not sell out within 72 hours of kickoff. That vocal minority suddenly has a powerful ally in Congress, which is targeting the NFL's television monopoly in a broader dispute over who should control cable programming pricing.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., claims the NFL's blackout rule, instituted in 1973 and regulated
by the FCC, is extreme, archaic and poor public policy. In May, the 2008 presidential nominee introduced a bill that would prohibit the league from blacking out games in markets in which teams have used public financing for stadium construction.
"I think that's outrageous," McCain testified May 14 during a Senate subcommittee hearing. "Now, if that stadium is not taxpayer-financed, then that owner can do anything they want to. But if the taxpayers paid for them then, by God, I think the taxpayers ought to be able to see the game whether they sell out the stadium or not."
Populism permeates McCain's eight-page Television Consumer Freedom Act, proposed legislation that would curb cable operators' ability to bundle channels and allow viewers to purchase them from an "a la carte" menu.
The blackout ban is the final sentence of the bill. Its language does not define public stadium financing or even mention the 1961 antitrust law that has allowed the NFL to exclusively negotiate, on behalf of its teams, billions of dollars worth of television contracts.
McCain's proposed law has not attracted any co-sponsors, nor have any hearings been scheduled on Capitol Hill. What is more, the bill faces fierce opposition from the NFL and TV executives.
The National Association of Broadcasters, which represents local stations, grudgingly accepts the blackout rule as leverage for keeping games on free television. Without it, the NAB argues, telecommunications giants like DirecTV, Time Warner Cable and Dish Network could circumvent contracts between the NFL and its broadcast partners by showing supposedly blacked-out games to their customers.
Still, McCain already is farther downfield than previous blackout challengers. He is leading a chorus calling for the end of a practice that has angered NFL fans for more than 60 years.
"In three or four years, there will not be blackouts in the NFL," predicted U.S. Rep. Brian Higgins, a lifelong Bills fan who represents Buffalo and western New York.
"I think the league will come around to recognizing that the blackout rule is obsolete when you consider the economic realities of today. What the league fears is the unknown. They're playing defense as opposed to offense. They don't want Congress telling them what to do, but the owners and the commissioner will figure it out."
The NFL maintains its policy, which requires home teams to sell out stadiums 72 hours prior to kickoff to ensure games will be televised locally, is a powerful sales tool that already is federally regulated. Owners claim it has helped sustain attendance growth over the past decade and allowed more fans to watch games by reducing the blackout rate to 6 percent last season from a high of 56 percent in 1977.
Of 256 regular-season games in 2012, all but 15 were televised in their local markets. Blackouts last season affected five franchises: Tampa Bay (6 games), San Diego (4), Cincinnati (2), Buffalo (2) and Oakland (1).
"We're aware of the challenges specific clubs have tried to address, but we have a system that works, one that has been consistently upheld by the FCC," said Adolpho Birch, senior vice president of labor policy and the NFL's chief lobbyist.
"But there is a bigger picture here. The legitimate goal of the policy is to ensure fan attendance and that games will be available on free TV. We think the broader goals are served much beyond the negative impact of having 6 percent of games blacked out."
The Vikings have not had a game blacked out since Dec. 14, 1997, even though their 144-game sellout streak ended in 2012. They were among four teams last year that accepted the NFL's offer to reduce capacity for sellouts, the first time the league modified its television policy in 40 years.
Sports Fans Coalition, a Washington-based interest group, takes credit for softening the rule and has not relented in its crusade to eradicate blackouts.
It petitioned the FCC in 2011 to rescind the NFL's blackout policy. The regulatory agency has solicited legal briefs and public comment but has not issued a ruling.
The coalition is chaired by former Dish Network executive David Goodfriend, who is leading the charge in Congress. Goodfriend said the NFL and its rights holders have consolidated too much power and are penalizing fans who subsidize their industry.
"A product aimed at sports fans is withheld from fans for profit. That's how monopolists work," Goodfriend said. "The blackout rule is a vestige of a bygone era in which they can afford to not even sell you their product."
At issue for the NFL and its broadcasters is control over contracts they have negotiated to show games on free TV.
About 54 million people, or 17 percent of the U.S. television population, do not subscribe to cable or satellite television and rely on over-the-air channels for programming. Blackout opponents hammering the NFL miss the bigger picture, argues NAB spokesman Dennis Wharton.
If the Vikings fail to sell out their 2013 home opener on Sept. 23 against the Cleveland Browns 72 hours prior to kickoff, the FOX or CBS affiliate in the Twin Cities would be barred from broadcasting the game.
However, DirecTV could "import" the telecast from a Cleveland station and show it in the Twin Cities -- but only to its subscribers.
"That situation would be bad for local broadcasters, bad for local advertisers," Wharton said. "After all, why would people in Minneapolis want to see advertisements from businesses based in Cleveland?
"Most important, it would be especially bad for the people in Minneapolis who don't subscribe to DirecTV. Those 'free, over-the-air TV' viewers would be disenfranchised from access to NFL games as a result of eliminating the sports blackout rule."
McCain's support of the Sports Fans Coalition is seriously outgunned when it comes to wielding influence in the U.S. Senate.
The NFL and NAB have spent more than $20 million on lobbyists since 2012, according to federal disclosures. Sports Fans Coalition? A mere $75,000.
"It's nothing short of a Washington miracle that we've gotten this far," Goodfriend said. "They've thrown a lot of soldiers at it. If you're right long enough, we'll break through."
Coming off a 3-13 season in 2011, the Vikings lowered their sellout threshold by 10 percent -- or about 6,000 seats at the Metrodome -- at the start of last season.
The move allowed Minnesota's first three home games -- against Jacksonville, San Francisco and Tennessee -- to be televised when they would have been blacked out under the previous policy.
The Vikings' improved play on the field produced a 10-6 record and wild-card playoff berth. Fans packed the Metrodome for the final five games, as they had every season since 1998.
By opting to lower the threshold, however, the Vikings were bound to split revenue earned above the 90-percent threshold with the league instead of retaining the standard 66 percent.
"It was absolutely the right decision," said Steve LaCroix, the club's vice president of sales and chief marketing officer. "We knew if we had success on the field, things would go better in the ticket office. We had a good year, and we had to leave some money on the table. But it was worth it."
LaCroix said the Vikings have not decided whether to utilize the lower standard in 2013.
"We are encouraged by our season tickets to date," he said in May. "Our goal to have as many Vikings fans as possible view our games has not changed."
The gamble did not pay off last year for the Buccaneers, who had six of eight regular-season games blacked out in 2012 despite lowering their sellout threshold to the minimum 85 percent at 66,000-seat Raymond James Stadium.
The Tampa-St. Petersburg region, economically ravaged by the housing market crash, has averaged 10.5 percent unemployment since 2008 -- 1.5 percent higher than the national average, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Over that span, the Buccaneers were a woeful 33-47 with only one playoff appearance. Despite lowering ticket prices four straight seasons and offering fans flexible payment plans, free in-stadium wireless connections and half-priced concessions, only four of the Bucs' past 29 home games have been televised locally.
The team said it would use the 85-percent sellout threshold again in 2013.
"We have gone to great lengths to make our home games among the most affordable in the league, while continuing to make our game-day experience the best it can be for our fans," Bucs spokesman Michael Pehanich said.
Unwilling to attend home games and unable to watch them on television, Bucs fans like Scott Myers criticize owner Malcolm Glazer for not doing more to entice businesses to purchase remaining tickets or even buy them himself and lift the blackouts.
Myers, a 66-year-old IT worker, has blogged about the Buccaneers' plight on the Sports Fans Coalition website, noting that Tampa-St. Petersburg taxpayers footed the bill to construct Raymond James Stadium for $168 million in 1998.
"It is a total obscenity that people who don't have the means to get to these games cannot see the games played in our town when we've paid 100 percent of the cost for the stadium," Myers said. "You're penalizing hundreds of thousands (of fans) who can never go to games (by) trying to draw another 4,000 into the stadium."
Consider that 200 million viewers representing 80 percent of U.S. television households tuned in during the 2012 regular season. NFL games accounted for 31 of the 32 most-watched television broadcasts last fall, more than double the amount of viewers for other prime-time programming on Fox, ABC, CBS and NBC.
The home-viewing experience has become so attractive that the NFL in many ways is competing with itself, encouraging fans to invest in the tribal experience of live football while banking on the couch potatoes to drive up ratings and keep the gravy train rolling.
Television revenue is exponentially more valuable than ticket sales.
In December 2011, the NFL extended its contracts with CBS, Fox and NBC through 2022, another record-shattering deal projected to increase revenue from $1.93 billion per year to more than $3 billion by the end of the deal.
Satellite and cable packages beaming high-definition pictures and remote-accessed statistics to viewers also feed fantasy leaguers' appetites. Why brave the crowds when you simply can plop down and have a cooler of beer within arm's reach, a bathroom 10 feet away and a neighbor bringing over chips and guacamole?
"We're always serving two audiences," NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said before the Vikings-Tennessee Titans game Oct. 7 at the Metrodome. "We're the only league to stay on free television, and that experience is getting better and better. And that's great for our fans who are watching on television. But we want to make this experience terrific.
"Obviously, getting a new stadium's going to be a big part of that (in Minneapolis) and then doing everything to make sure we're bringing new technology and making sure that is a great experience for people when they're here. Tailgating, that's a big part of the experience. They make it a day. They make sure it's fun. That's what we want to do to make sure we support that."
By continuing to enforce blackouts?
"Yeah, it helps, sure," Goodell said. "It's a balance between staying on free television and getting people in the stadium, which is what you want to do. Our teams are doing a great job of getting people in the stadiums, and that's what we want."
Blackouts, as a rule, do not promote live attendance but maximize stadium revenue, according to nine of the country's leading sports economists, who believe the FCC should abolish the NFL's policy.
"There is no evidence that the current blackout practices have a significant effect on attendance," the panel wrote in an 18-page report filed in support of Sports Fans Coalition. "The FCC's blackout rules are more symbolic than real."
One of the authors, Rodney Fort, professor of sports management at the University of Michigan, said owners collectively share television revenue but individually are driven to sell as many tickets as possible because teams retain stadium revenue.
"The individual owner is thinking, 'Why put the game on TV if I can get one more guy through the turnstile and put another 300 or 400 bucks in my pocket?' " Fort said.
Image matters, too.
The NFL acknowledges televised images of empty seats do not exactly compel viewers to jump off the couch and buy tickets, especially if the weather and the team -- or both -- are lousy.
"Players can't hear you unless you're at the game," added Birch, the NFL executive. "We cannot deny that home-field advantage."
Blackouts hark back to 1950, when the Los Angeles Rams prevented their home games from being televised and saw attendance soar at the Coliseum.
A year later, then-commissioner Bert Bell decided to black out all home games within a 75-mile radius of NFL markets. He also barred teams from selling broadcast rights to their games.
"I don't believe there is any honesty in selling a person a ticket and then, after you've taken his dollars, decide to put the game on television, where he could've seen it for nothing," Bell told reporters at the time, according to "America's Game," Michael MacCambridge's 2004 book chronicling the history of the NFL.
"As long as I have anything to do with this league, home games won't be televised, period."
The Justice Department sued the NFL, alleging restraint of trade. On Nov. 12, 1953, a federal judge in Philadelphia preserved the league's right to black out not only home telecasts but also all other league games while the home team was playing.
Ticket sales immediately spiked. Average league attendance increased 46 percent between 1950--59, according to the NFL Record and Fact Book.
Yet TV revenue remained an unlevel playing field as large-market teams leveraged more lucrative deals than their small-market competitors. In 1953, the L.A. Rams sold their broadcast rights for $100,000, while tiny Green Bay earned a paltry $5,000.
By 1961, the NFL had a new commissioner, Pete Rozelle, a public relations whiz whom owners allowed to negotiate national television contracts for all teams. That year, the league lobbied Congress and President Kennedy for an antitrust exemption to essentially monopolize TV rights, agreeing not to televise games on Saturday during college football season.
In January 1962, the NFL signed its first national television contract with CBS, a two-year, $9.2 million deal. The league continued to black out home games for another decade, until Congress intervened in 1973 by passing the 72-hour law.
The law expired two years later, but the league adopted the 72-hour rule and relied on the FCC to regulate it. Forty years later, blackouts remain universally loathed by and vexing to fans.
"I can watch a hockey game or a baseball home game any time (in) any city," said Stroth, the Bills' season-ticket holder. "I don't understand why it's different for football."


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Transferts de chaleur et dispersion -扩散传热
The book presents methods developed for engineering solutions of the multiple problems in heat and mass transfer and electrical discharge in heterogeneous and multiphase media of different structure and different conditions. The transport phenomena in chemical phase transitions are presented in a manner applicable to the chemical, mining, metallurgical, energy generation, and other widely used technological fields.
Table des matières:
I Heat Transfer Equations
I.1 Equations of the Two-Temperature Model
I.2 Heat Transfer in Systems with Perceptible Thermal Inertia of the Solid Phase
I.3 Configuration Ensembles of Particles of a Granular System
I.4 The Phase Means and Their Properties
I.5 Fluctuations of Functions about Their Mean Values
I.6 Derivation of Equations of the Two-Temperature Model
II Attaining Closure of the Equations of Heat Transfer
II.1 Steady-State Transfer of Heat in a Low-Concentration Disperse System
II.2 Hierarchy of Heat Transfer Equations and the Group-Expansions Technique
II.3 The Self-Consistent Model and the Multipole Expansions
II.4 The Problem of the Test Particle
II.5 The Conditional Concentration of the Dispersed Phase near the Test Particle
III The Effective Steady-State Thermal Conductivity
III.1 Adaptation of Elementary Models
III.2 Conductivity of Materials with Spherical Particles
III.3 Conductivity of Materials with Ellipsoidal Particles
III.4 Effect of Macroscopic Inhomogeneity
III.5 Thermal Conductivity of Gas Dispersions
IV Contact Conductivity
IV.1 Skeleton Conductivity of a Quiescent Granular Bed
IV.2 Contact Conductivity in a System of Fluctuating Particles
IV.3 Steady-State Thermal Conductivity of a Granular Bed of Contacting Particles
IV.4 Effect of Particle Roughness and of Surface Conductivity
IV.5 Certain Features of Contact Conductivity
V Transient Heat Conduction
V.1 Heating of a Granular Bed by a Solid Wall
V.2 The Method of Equivalent Equations
V.3 Reducing the Two-Temperature Model to an Equivalent Equation
V.4 Relaxation Effects Caused by Interphase Heat Transfer
V.5 Transient Transfer with Allowance for Relaxation and Dispersion
VI Potential for Extending the Theory
VI.1 Equation of Mass Transfer in a Dispersion with Heterogeneous Transformations
VI.2 Mass Transfer with Absorption on Particles
VI.3 Effect of Variation in Particle Dimensions
VI.4 Macrokinetics of Diffusion Transformation in a Metal with Foreign-Phase Inclusions
VI.5 Diffusion Transport in Materials with Traps
VI.6 High-Frequency Dispersion of Electromagnetic Waves in Heterogeneous Media