A new role for science - I

Science and technology are in desperate need of change, just because they have been extraordinarily successful

CompendexWeb Review

Review of interface changes in CompendexWeb

Editorial

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Content enrichment through dynamic annotation

This paper describes a technique for interceding between users and the information that they browse. This facility, that we term 'dynamic annotation', affords a means of editing Web page content 'on-the-fly' between the source Web server and the requesting client. Thereby, we have a generic way of modifying the content displayed to local users by addition, removal or reorganising any information sourced from the World-Wide Web, whether this derives from local or remote pages. For some time, we have been exploring the scope for this device and we believe that it affords many potential worthwhile applications. Here, we describe two varieties of use. The first variety focuses on support for individual users in two contexts (second-language support and second language learning). The second variety of use focuses on support for groups of users. These differing applications have a common goal which is content enrichment of the materials placed before the user. Dynamic annotation provides a potent and flexible means to this end

A brief (p)review on a possible fourth generation world to come

We pick up the thread of $B\to K\pi$ direct CPV (DCPV) difference, linking to the 4th generation prediction (and current quest) of $t$-dependent CPV (TCPV) in $B_s \to J/\psi\,\phi$. We then soar up to the heavens with possible source of CPV for the Universe (CPV-4-U); for the "cauldron" that stirs strong phase transitions, we raise the possible link between electroweak symmetry breaking and large Yukawa couplings (4-EWSB). With the prognosis for 2011, 2012 and beyond, we stress these as preview for the possible 4th generation to come: CPV-4-U and the \emph{raison d'\^etre} for our Universe (and ourselves); 4-EWSB and the \emph{raison d'\^etre} for the LHC itself.Comment: Talk given at 35th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP2010), Paris, France, July 22-28, 201

Indications for Large Rescattering in Rare B Decays

The sign of $A_{\rm CP}(K^-\pi^+) < 0$, the evidence for $\bar B^0 \to \pi^0\pi^0$, and the possibly sizable $A_{\pi\pi}$ and $S_{\pi\pi}$ in $\bar B^0 \to \pi^+\pi^-$ all suggest that final state rescattering may be needed in $\bar B\to PP$ decay, which is echoed by large color suppressed $\bar B^0\to D^0h^0$ modes. An SU(3) formalism of ${\bf 8}\otimes {\bf 8} \to {\bf 8}\otimes {\bf 8}$ rescattering in $PP$ final states leads to interesting predictions, in particular allowing for small $\bar B^0 \to K^-K^+$.Comment: 3 pages, 3 figures. Talk presented at EPS2003 Conference, Aachen, Germany, July 200