Playing with the “Playing God”

Some philosophers and theologians have argued against the idea of Human Enhancement, saying that human beings should not play God. A closer look, however, might reveal that the question of who is playing Whom is far from being so clear-cut. This chapter will address the idea of human enhancement from the standpoint of theistic theology, arguing that human enhancement and theistic theology may not be so very incompatible, after all

RefDB: The Reference Database for CMS Monte Carlo Production

RefDB is the CMS Monte Carlo Reference Database. It is used for recording and managing all details of physics simulation, reconstruction and analysis requests, for coordinating task assignments to world-wide distributed Regional Centers, Grid-enabled or not, and trace their progress rate. RefDB is also the central database that the workflow-planner contacts in order to get task instructions. It is automatically and asynchronously updated with book-keeping run summaries. Finally it is the end-user interface to data catalogues.Comment: CHEP03 conference, 4 page

Vortex structure in long Josephson junction with two inhomogeneities

A report of numerical experiment results on long Josephson junction with one and two rectangular inhomogeneities in the barrier layer is presented. In case of one inhomogeneity we demonstrate the existence of the asymmetric fluxon states. The disappearance of mixed fluxon-antifluxon states when the position of inhomogeneity shifted to the end of the junction is shown. In case with two inhomogeneities the change of the amplitude of Josephson current through the inhomogeneity at the end of junction makes strong effect on the stability of the fluxon states and smoothes the maximums on the dependence ``critical current - magnetic field''.Comment: Presented for M2S, Dresden, July 9-14, 200

Asset approach to IT cost management in industrial companies

The article introduces the authors’ estimation method for measuring the current level of information technologies in companies by four aspects (hardware, software, IT services, and telecommunication equipment) using the proposed original indicators. On the example of 50 sample Russian industrial companies the authors have built and tested an econometric model, which allows to measure how IT costs are affected by such factors as: the current level of IT development, net profit value, number of employees, general wages, salaries of IT specialists, percentage of qualified workers.IT management, IT development, IT cost management, industrial companies., Industrial Organization, Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies, M15,