Special issue: Ribosome-inactivating proteins : commemorative issue in honor of Professor Fiorenzo Stirpe

The family of ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs) groups all enzymes (EC.3.2.2.22) with a so-called RIP domain which comprises N-glycosidase activity and enables these proteins to catalytically inactivate ribosomes.[...

Bivariate Hermite subdivision

A subdivision scheme for constructing smooth surfaces interpolating scattered data in $\mathbb{R}^3$ is proposed. It is also possible to impose derivative constraints in these points. In the case of functional data, i.e., data are given in a properly triangulated set of points $\{(x_i, y_i)\}_{i=1}^N$ from which none of the pairs $(x_i,y_i)$ and $(x_j,y_j)$ with $i\neq j$ coincide, it is proved that the resulting surface (function) is $C^1$. The method is based on the construction of a sequence of continuous splines of degree 3. Another subdivision method, based on constructing a sequence of splines of degree 5 which are once differentiable, yields a function which is $C^2$ if the data are not 'too irregular'. Finally the approximation properties of the methods are investigated

The world is too large : philosophical mobility and urban space in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Paris

Too often associated with the tropes of exile, wandering, or nomadism in postmodern thought, philosophical mobility has been little studied in itself, except in connection with the singular travel practices of a Voltaire, a Denis Diderot, or a Jean-Jacques Rousseau (...)

Introduction to Frans Olbrechts, 'The integration of art in the culture of primitive peoples'

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Liberalising Gambling Markets: Lessons from Network Industries?

This paper, based on my concluding remarks at the “Colloquium on the Economic Aspects of Gambling Regulation: EU and US Perspectives” held at Tilburg in November 2006, discusses the question why, in Europe, some service sectors (such as network industries) are liberalised, while others (like the gambling sector) are not. In both, the discussion appears to be one-sided. In the former, the focus is on consumer benefits, where in the latter, only the possible consumer harm associated with liberalisation is discussed. A proper balancing of costs and benefits can, and should, be subsumed under the ECJ’s proportionality test, as formulated in Gambelli. If this more economic approach is taken, the result might very well be less restrictive policy towards gambling and games of chance.Gambling;market liberalisation;EU internal market

Oskar Morgenstern

game theory;cooperative games;Nash equilibrium;noncooperative games;utility theory