Zewail lab studies transformations of aqua cobalt (II) complexes

Hairong Ma, Chaozhi Wan, and Ahmed H. Zewail (2008) Dynamics of ligand substitution in labile cobalt complexes resolved by ultrafast T-jump. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105(35):12754-12757, 2 September 2008. CaltechAUTHORS.

Freely available online through the PNAS open access option.

Blogosphere comments on McAfee and open access textbooks

Recent newspaper articles have drawn attention to R. Preston McAfee's free online textbook and started conversations on many blogs. Follow some of the discussions at Techdirt ("If You're Looking To Learn Basic Economics, Here's A Free Textbook") and Consumerist ("Economics Professor Self-Publishes Textbook To Subvert Overpriced Publishing Industry").

Find the book at:
McAfee, R. Preston (2005) Introduction to Economic Analysis. ISBN 160049000X. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechBOOK:2005.002

Preston McAfee on textbook publishing

R. Preston McAfee, J. Stanley Johnson Professor of Business Economics and Management, comments on the similarities between textbook publishers and drug makers in "Don't Buy That Textbook, Download It Free," an article in the September 14th issue of The New York Times.

McAfee, R. Preston (2005) Introduction to Economic Analysis. ISBN 160049000X. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechBOOK:2005.002

Jiji Zhang applies do-calculus to ancestral graphs

Jiji Zhang (2008) Causal Reasoning with Ancestral Graphs. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 9:1437-1474. CaltechAUTHORS

Torres examines inherent learning on multiple space-time length scales

Kanuresh Ganguly, Elizabeth B Torres, Jorge V José, and Jose M Carmena (2008) From multiple neural cortical networks to motor mechanical behavior: the importance of inherent learning over separable space-time length scales. BMC Neuroscience, 9(Supplement 1):P70, 11 July 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

Locke finds design principles of circadian clock

James CW Locke, Pål O Westermark, Achim Kramer, and Hanspeter Herzel (2008) Global parameter search reveals design principles of the mammalian circadian clock. BMC Systems Biology, 2(22), 29 February 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

© 2008 Locke et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Deshaies and Verma expore ubiquitin-proteosome pathway

Amanda M Goh, Kylie J Walters, Suzanne Elsasser, Rati Verma, Raymond J Deshaies, Daniel Finley, and Peter M Howley (2008) Components of the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway compete for surfaces on Rad23 family proteins. BMC Biochemistry, 9(4), 30 January 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

© 2008 Goh et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Finoa Cowie -- Innateness and Language, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Fiona Cowie contributed a chapter, Innateness and Language, to Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Wilhelm and Bruck issue new PARADISE report on stochastic switching circuits

Daniel Wilhelm and Jehoshua Bruck (2008) Stochastic Switching Circuit Synthesis. Technical Report. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. [CaltechPARADISE:2008.ETR089]

Xiquan Cui et al. develop high-res optofluidic microscope-on-a-chip

Xiquan Cui, Lap Man Lee, Xin Heng, Weiwei Zhong, Paul W. Sternberg, Demetri Psaltis, and Changhuei Yang. (2008) Lensless high-resolution on-chip optofluidic microscopes for Caenorhabditis elegans and cell imaging. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105(31):10670-10675, 5 August 2008. CaltechAUTHORS.

Freely available online through the PNAS open access option.

Brett Barwick describes ponderomotive Aharanov-Bohm effect

B. Barwick and H. Batelaan (2008) Aharonov–Bohm phase shifts induced by laser pulses. New Journal of Physics, 10(8):083036. 26 August 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

PARADISE group releases new technical report

Yuval Cassuto, Moshe Schwartz, Vasken Bohossian, and Jehoshua Bruck (2008) Codes for Asymmetric Limited-Magnitude Errors with Application to Multi-Level Flash Memories. Technical Report. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. [CaltechPARADISE:2008.ETR088]