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April 25, 2006

New Institution formed by the IEE and IIE

The IEE (Institution of Electrical Engineers) and the IIE (The Institution of Incorporated Engineers) have formed a new institution called the Institution of Engineering and Technology.

As a result, the IEE Review has now ceased publication, the last issue is Volume 52, Number 3, March 2006. IEE Review has been replaced by a new monthly magazine, Engineering & Technology which will be available through IEEE Xplore and the IET Digital Library (formerly known as the IEE Digital Library).

All Conference Publications/Seminar Digests published after March 31, 2006, will be known as IET Conference Publications and IET Seminar Digests.

Posted to ELDNET-L by Michael McCabe, Marketing Manager - Publishing
The Institution of Engineering and Technology

Posted by amcmanus at 01:07 PM

April 24, 2006

San Francisco Bay Region Geology and Geologic Hazards

The USGS and California Geological Survey teamed up to report on the San Francisco Bay region geology and geologic hazards online. http://sfgeo.wr.usgs.gov/

Posted by ajbrown at 09:24 AM

April 19, 2006

New Open Access Journals from BioMed Central

BioMed Central, the independent publishing house that provides free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research, has recently launched the following new Open Access journal:

Biomedical Digital Libraries
From BioMed Central: Biomedical Digital Libraries is an Open Access, peer-reviewed, online journal that considers manuscripts on all aspects of digital library content and usage in biomedical settings, including academic medical centers, research and development institutes, and health care institutions.

Posted by erushton at 08:49 PM

April 12, 2006

Two new IEEE journals online

"The first issues of "IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine" and "IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security" have been published and are now available online through the IEEE Xplore digital library.

Computational intelligence is defined as a multi-faceted discipline dedicated to the shared knowledge of design, theory, development, and application of biologically and linguistically motivated computational models. The first issue of "IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine"
includes features on Evolutionary Computation and Evolvable Hardware.

"IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security" will cover related fields such as digital rights management, content identification, transaction tracking, surveillance, networking, law enforcement, and legal and ethical issues. The first issue includes papers on human identification based on facial animation and signature verification, among others."

The full text of articles is available at:

"IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security"
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=33588

"IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine"
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=33585

Posted to STS-L by
John R. Platt
IEEE Business Communications Manager

Posted by amcmanus at 04:15 PM

New Computer Science & Engineering Publications by BU Researchers

Special issue on the international symposium on physical design 2005
Scheffer, L; Madden, PH
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS 25 (4): 609-610 APR 2006

Challenges of education in engineering
Skormin, VA
IEEE AEROSPACE AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS MAGAZINE 21 (3): CF2-CF3 MAR 2006

Visualizing evolutionary dynamics of self-replicators: A graph-based approach
Salzberg, C; Antony, A; Sayama, H
ARTIFICIAL LIFE 12 (2): 275-287 SPR 2006

Dynamic resource discovery for sensor networks
Tilak, S; Chiu, K; Abu-Chazaleh, NB; Fountain, T
EMBEDDED AND UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING - EUC 2005 WORKSHOPS, PROCEEDINGS 3823: 785-796 2005

Reducing delay and power consumption of the wakeup logic through instruction packing and tag memoization
Sharkey, J; Ponomarev, D; Ghose, K; Ergin, O
POWER-AWARE COMPUTER SYSTEMS LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 3471: 15-29 2005

Efficient wet paper codes
Fridrich, J; Goijan, M; Soukal, D
INFORMATION HIDING 3727: 204-218 2005
LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 3727

Active view optimization for viewing objects in motion
Berger, M; Yin, L; Moore, J
ADVANCES IN VISUAL COMPUTING, PROCEEDINGS 3804: 9-16 2005
LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 3804

Posted by amcmanus at 03:20 PM

Special issue of Proceedings of the IEEE

"Physics, chemistry, advanced mathematics and engineering science are all needed to design relevant biological and physiological models," write the editors of this month's issue of "Proceedings of the IEEE" (v. 94, no. 4).
The papers in this special issue are intended to survey the major perspectives on integrative physiology, and to show that "tissue, organ and system functions are as important as molecular and cell functions in defining a more global picture of living systems and, eventually, of patients." The issue is now available through the IEEE Xplore digital library.

Posted to the ELDNET-L and STS-L listservs by
John R. Platt
IEEE Business Communications Manager

Posted by amcmanus at 03:07 PM

April 11, 2006

Science Library renovations update

Soon, work will start on renovating the Science Library so we can bring you an information commons similar to the one in Bartle Library. We will be re-carpeting areas of the first floor, installing new furniture, and eventually adding new computers. The first stage of this work is to dismantle the red shelving under the skylight and in the reference area. These shelves contained older reference materials that have been moved either to the Library Annex or to the circulating collection on the Ground Floor. For more information, please contact Alesia McManus, Head of the Science Library.

Posted by amcmanus at 02:39 PM

April 10, 2006

New Publications by BU Researchers

Title: Willing or able? The meanings of self-efficacy
Authors: Cahill, SP; Gallo, LA; Lisman, SA; Weinstein, A
Source: JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY 25 (2): 196-209 FEB 2006

Title: Some determinants of latent inhibition in human predictive learning
Authors: Pineno, O; de la Casa, LG; Lubow, RE; Miller, RR
Source: LEARNING AND MOTIVATION 37 (1): 42-65 FEB 2006

Title: Taste differentiation in the context of suckling and independent, adultlike ingestive behavior
Authors: Kozlov, AP; Petrov, ES; Varlinskaya, EI; Spear, NE
Source: DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY 48 (2): 133-145 MAR 2006

Title: Differences in the social consequences of ethanol emerge during the course of adolescence in rats: Social facilitation, social inhibition, and anxiolysis
Authors: Varlinskaya, EI; Spear, LP
Source: DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY 48 (2): 146-161 MAR 2006

Title: Alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone reduces putative stress-induced sickness behaviors in isolated guinea pig pups
Authors: Schiml-Webb, PA; Deak, T; Greenlee, TM; Maken, D; Hennessy, MB
Source: BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH 168 (2): 326-330 APR 3 2006

Title: Early ethanol's anxiolytic effects assessed through an unconditional stimulus revaluation procedure
Authors: Pautassi, RM; Sanders, S; Miller, S; Spear, N; Molina, JC
Source: ALCOHOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH 30 (3): 448-459 MAR 2006

Posted by ajbrown at 02:35 PM

New Publications by BU Researchers

Visualizing evolutionary dynamics of self-replicators: A graph-based approach
Salzberg C, Antony A, Sayama H
ARTIFICIAL LIFE 12 (2): 275-287 SPR 2006

Posted by erushton at 11:47 AM

April 05, 2006

100 or so Books that shaped a Century of Science

The magazine American Scientist has published their list of “100 or so Books that shaped a Century of Science.” Click here to view the list

Found via Confessions of a Science Librarian

Posted by erushton at 06:53 PM