Air conditioned suit

An environmentally controlled suit is described consisting of an airtight outergarment attached by an airtight bellows to the wall of a sterile chamber, an undergarment providing for circulation of air near the skin of the wearer, and a circulation system comprised of air supply and distribution to the extremities of the undegarment and central collection and exhaust of air from the midsection of the undergarment. A workman wearing the undergarment and attached circulation system enters the outer garment through a tunnel in the chamber wall and the attached bellows to work in the chamber without any danger of spreading bacteria

The Probably and the Provable. By Jonathan L. Cohen

  Sight: Långholmen, Stockhomen ”Långholmensmarinstad” består av tre delar. En båtuppställningslada ett bostadsområde och en restaurang. Båtuppställningsladan har även en dubbel funktion som teater under sommar halvåret då Stockholmstads Parkteater får en fast spelplats och båtarna ligger i vattnet. Restarangen ligger i anslutning till båt huset och har en stor glas vägg som öppnar sig in mot Båtarna/teatern som skapar ett tydligt marint tema.   Bostadsområdet består av nio stycken radhus som vilar mot den befintliga Q-märkta fängelsemuren likt små japanskavillor med ljusgård. Det centralt placerade bostadshuset med sina fem våningar är lika högt som de gamla fängelsebyggnaderna. En lugn lummig innergård skapas emellan radhus och bostadshuset. Den lokala segel skolan får även husera i den nedre våningen av bostadshuset.      Sight: Långholmen, Stockhomen ”Långholmensmarinstad” consists of three parts. These are a large boathouse housing complex and a restaurant. The boathouse also has a double function as theatre space during the summer months when the Stockholm Parkteatern needs its seasonal venue. The restaurant is in direct adjacent to the Boathouse/theatre with a large glass wall which gives the restaurant a natural marina vibe. The housing complex consists of nine townhouses adjacent to the old heritage labelled prison wall, with small Japanese courtyards and one housing block. The housing block rises five story’s and has the same metric height as the surrounding historical prison buildings.   This creates a green peaceful inner courtyard in-between the townhouses and the housing block. The locale yachting club is given a natural haven in the ground floor space in the housing block

Stationary and convergent strategies in Choquet games

If NONEMPTY has a winning strategy against EMPTY in the Choquet game on a space, the space is said to be a Choquet space. Such a winning strategy allows NONEMPTY to consider the entire finite history of previous moves before making each new move; a stationary strategy only permits NONEMPTY to consider the previous move by EMPTY. We show that NONEMPTY has a stationary winning strategy for every second countable T1 Choquet space. More generally, NONEMPTY has a stationary winning strategy for any T1 Choquet space with an open-finite basis. We also study convergent strategies for the Choquet game, proving the following results. (1) A T1 space X is the open image of a complete metric space if and only if NONEMPTY has a convergent winning strategy in the Choquet game on X. (2) A T1 space X is the compact open image of a metric space if and only if X is metacompact and NONEMPTY has a stationary convergent strategy in the Choquet game on X. (3) A T1 space X is the compact open image of a complete metric space if and only if X is metacompact and NONEMPTY has a stationary convergent winning strategy in the Choquet game on X.Comment: 24 page

A Process-Oriented Architecture for Complex System Modelling

A fine-grained massively-parallel process-oriented model of platelets (potentially artificial) within a blood vessel is presented. This is a CSP inspired design, expressed and implemented using the occam-pi language. It is part of the TUNA pilot study on nanite assemblers at the universities of York, Surrey and Kent. The aim for this model is to engineer emergent behaviour from the platelets, such that they respond to a wound in the blood vessel wall in a way similar to that found in the human body -- i.e. the formation of clots to stem blood flow from the wound and facilitate healing. An architecture for a three dimensional model (relying strongly on the dynamic and mobile capabilities of occam-pi) is given, along with mechanisms for visualisation and interaction. The biological accuracy of the current model is very approximate. However, its process-oriented nature enables simple refinement (through the addition of processes modelling different stimulants/inhibitors of the clotting reaction, different platelet types and other participating organelles) to greater and greater realism. Even with the current system, simple experiments are possible and have scientific interest (e.g. the effect of platelet density on the success of the clotting mechanism in stemming blood flow: too high or too low and the process fails). General principles for the design of large and complex system models are drawn. The described case study runs to millions of processes engaged in ever-changing communication topologies. It is free from deadlock, livelock, race hazards and starvation em by design, employing a small set of synchronisation patterns for which we have proven safety theorems

Cover pebbling numbers and bounds for certain families of graphs

Given a configuration of pebbles on the vertices of a graph, a pebbling move is defined by removing two pebbles from some vertex and placing one pebble on an adjacent vertex. The cover pebbling number of a graph, gamma(G), is the smallest number of pebbles such that through a sequence of pebbling moves, a pebble can eventually be placed on every vertex simultaneously, no matter how the pebbles are initially distributed. The cover pebbling number for complete multipartite graphs and wheel graphs is determined. We also prove a sharp bound for gamma(G) given the diameter and number of vertices of G.Comment: 10 pages, 1 figure, submitted to Discrete Mathematic