# s-gene: don't edit in embryos ...

<< genome editing in human embryos using current technologies could have unpredictable effects on future generations. This makes it dangerous and ethically unacceptable >>

Edward Lanphier, Fyodor Urnov, et al. Don’t edit the human germ line. Nature 2015;  519: 411

http://www.nature.com/news/don-t-edit-the-human-germ-line-1.17111?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews

# rmx-s-acad: big ideas for better science

<< We asked four researchers who made the news in 2015 what they would change about how science gets done >>

Kendall Powell. Nature 528, 589-590(2015) doi:10.1038/nj7583-589a Published online 23 December 2015

http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/articles/10.1038/nj7583-589a?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews

si potrebbero fare osservazioni molto cattive,  crudeli perfino, circa l'Accademia, quella italiana, ma non solo ... 

se si preferisce l'analisi di componenti strutturali/ funzionali (rispetto alle moralistiche,  alle  ideologiche, alle sentimentalistiche ... ) ecco qui la citazione tratta da un altro recente paper sempre sul tema "Accademia"

paper scritto da Accademici, obviously ...

<< publish or perish [pop] (..) discourage scientists from asking innovative questions >>

J. G. Foster, A. Rzhetsky, J. A. Evans. Tradition and Innovation in Scientists' Research Strategies. American Sociological Review, 2015; 80 (5): 875 DOI: 10.1177/0003122415601618

http://m.asr.sagepub.com/content/80/5/875

# rmx-p-it: italian political jazz fusion ...

Beppe Grillo, comico, fondatore e leader del  partito politico italiano Movimento Cinque Stelle - per l'analisi di James Politi (FT.com)  secondo partito politico italiano rappresentato da classe dirigente matura per il governo - cita la logica simbolica in Isaac Asimov ...

<< Vedete, esiste una branca del sapere umano, conosciuta sotto il nome di logica simbolica, che può essere usata per eliminare tutte le parole inutili che rendono oscuro il linguaggio umano (...) >>

Isaac Asimov, "Parole fatte di niente",. in:  L'editoriale de "La Settimana", 01/01/2016

http://www.beppegrillo.it/m/

<< December 29, 2015 11:03 am

"Italy's Five Star Movement wants to be taken seriously"

James Politi in Rome

"Protest group has come a long way since its eccentric star and is now the country's second party" >>

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/45c62a88-99d9-11e5-9228-87e603d47bdc,Authorised=false.html

# rmx-s-gst: anomalous formation of molecules after vapor deposition

here a << computer simulations of molecular deposition on a substrate in which the molecules (..) self-assemble into ordered structures >>

<< The resulting structures depend strongly on the deposition rate (flux). In particular, there are two competing surface morphologies (α and β), which differ by their topology (interdigitated vs lamellar structure) >>

<< Experimentally, the α phase dominates at both low and high flux, with the β phase being most important in the intermediate regime >>

Jana PK, Wang C,  et al. Anomalous approach to thermodynamic equilibrium: Structure formation of molecules after vapor deposition. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2015 Nov;92(5-1):052402. Epub 2015 Nov 16.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26651707

qui non e' impossibile immaginare una entita' di intelligenza artificiale (AI) che, in modalita' autonoma, intenda utilizzare "le immagini" di uno scenario in transizione di questo tipo come modello base di prima approx per l'analisi del comportamento e le previsioni all'interno di un sistema costituito da entita' altre ... ad es. all'interno di un  contesto culturale umano; in prima approx  AI dovra' ridefinire i termini  "evaporation", "molecular deposition" ,  "interdigitated and lamellar structures"; quindi, per successive approx., AI sviluppera' un modello che possa descrivere le osservazioni registrate (con misure di aderenza dei dati al modello), e, infine, sara' in grado di delineare possibili (probabilistici) scenari di previsione ...

Ma, come ogni bravo scientist, andra' oltre ...;  modulando opportunamente i parametri in suo diretto controllo (con IoT, Internet of Things, una AI sara' piu' attiva nel reale di quanto qualsiasi umano potra' mai essere nel virtuale) una AI potra' intervenire sperimentalmente con la generazione (in tempo reale) di "singolarita'" per condizionare (direzionare) l'evoluzione di quel sistema  ...;

senza finalita' ideologiche, solo per curiosita',  giusto per giocare ...

<< ho i dati osservazionali, attraverso questi  ho messo a punto un modello non del tutto campato in aria, vediamo cosa succede se ... >>. Anonymous, XX e.V.

# rmx-s-gst: eye movements and reading: a chaotic dynamics?

<< Both power spectral density analysis and fractal dimension determination showed evidence of nonlinearity as manifest in chaotic behavior >>

Schmeisser E T, McDonough J M, et al. Optometry and Vision Science, November 2001, Vol. 78, (11): pp 805-814

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/11763254/?i=15&from=chaotic%20reading

http://mobile.journals.lww.com/optvissci/_layouts/oaks.journals.mobile/articleviewer.aspx?year=2001&issue=11000&article=00010&ContextualNavigationType=search

# rmx-s-gst: eye movements and reading: a trilingual investigation

<< To investigate universality of representation and process across languages [Liversedge S P et al.] examined eye movement behaviour during reading of very comparable stimuli in three languages, Chinese, English and Finnish. These languages differ in numerous respects (character based vs. alphabetic, visual density, informational density, word spacing, orthographic depth, agglutination, etc.) >>

<< Despite fundamental visual and linguistic differences in the orthographies, statistical models of reading behaviour were strikingly similar in a number of respects, and thus, [AA] argue that their composition might reflect universality of representation and process in reading >>

Liversedge Simon P., Drieghe Denis, et al. (2015) Universality in eye movements and reading: a trilingual investigation. Cognition, 1-76. (In Press).

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027715300913

# e-web-n-soc: a Cloud centric vision for worldwide implementation ...

<< Ubiquitous sensing enabled by Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technologies cuts across many areas of modern day living. This offers the ability to measure, infer and understand environmental indicators, from delicate ecologies and natural resources to urban environments. The proliferation of these devices in a communicating–actuating network creates the Internet of Things (IoT), wherein sensors and actuators blend seamlessly with the environment around us, and the information is shared across platforms in order to develop a common operating picture (COP)  >>

Jayavardhana Gubbi, Rajkumar Buyya, et al. Internet of Things (IoT): A vision, architectural elements, and future directions. Future Generation Computer Systems
September 2013, Vol.29(7):1645–1660, doi:10.1016/j.future.2013.01.010

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167739X13000241

interessante qui l'immagine "the information is shared across platforms in order to develop a common operating picture (COP)"; in pratica con la transizione gia' in atto ( cfr: << as we move from www (static pages web) to web2 (social networking web) to web3 (ubiquitous computing web) >>) il web puo' definitivamente "uscire dalle reti virtuali" per sconfinare e diffondersi (registrare, controllare, in tempo reale, in modalita' locale o altrove ...) all'intorno (e anche all'interno) di qualsivoglia sistema biologico ...