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Volume 21, Issue 9
September 2016, pages 767-863
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pp 767-768 September 2016 Editorial
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pp 769-772 September 2016 Article in a Box
The Creative Genius: John Nash
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pp 773-773 September 2016 Article in a Box
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pp 776-776 September 2016 Science Smiles
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pp 777-801 September 2016 General Article
Beautiful Results from a Beautiful Mind
The modern era is marked by magnificent advances in information and communication technologies and has created opportunities for powerful new applications. In many of these applications, the research challenges can be effectively addressed using game theory and mechanism design. In this article, we highlight the key role that the brilliant discoveries of John Nash continueto play in these fascinating applications of game theory and mechanism design.
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pp 803-814 September 2016 General Article
Evolutionary Stable Strategy: Application of Nash Equilibrium in Biology
Every behaviourally responsive animal (including us) make decisions. These can be simple behavioural decisions such aswhere to feed, what to feed, how long to feed, decisions related to finding, choosing and competing for mates, or simply maintaining ones territory. All these are conflict situations between competing individuals, hence can be best understood using a game theory approach. Using some examples of classical games, we show how evolutionary game theory can help understand behavioural decisions of animals. Game theory (along with its cousin, optimality theory) continues to providea strong conceptual and theoretical framework to ecologists for understanding the mechanisms by which species coexist.
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pp 815-826 September 2016 General Article
The Embedding Theorems of Whitney and Nash
We begin by briefly motivating the idea of amanifold and then discuss the embedding theorems of Whitney and Nash that allow us toview these objects inside appropriately large Euclidean spaces.
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pp 827-842 September 2016 General Article
Fertilization in Flowering Plants: 1. Bringing the Male and Female Partners Together is Outsourced
Fertilization in flowering plants appears simple when compared to that in higher animals. In reality all pre-fertilization events involved in screening and selection of the partners, so familiar in animals, take place in a subtle way in floweringplants also. As plants lack mobility, they cannot perform, ontheir own, the most important and primary requirement ofbringing the male (pollen grain) and the female (pistil) partnerstogether. This process, termed pollination, is effectivelyoutsourced largely to animal agents. Both plants and animalshave evolved fascinating adaptations to do this, which is vitalnot only for their sustenance but also for crop productivity.
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pp 843-856 September 2016 General Article
The Design of a Nuclear Reactor
The aim of this largely pedagogical article is toemploy pre-college physics to arrive at an understanding of a system as complex as a nuclear reactor. We focus on three key issues: the fuelpin, the moderator, and lastly the dimensions ofthe nuclear reactor.
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pp 857-857 September 2016 Information and Announcements
Science Academies' Refresher Course in Experimental Physics
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pp 858-858 September 2016 Information and Announcements
Science Academies' Refresher Course on Experimental Biology: Orthodox to Modern
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pp 859-859 September 2016 Information and Announcements
Science Academies' 82nd Refresher Course on Experimental Physics
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pp 860-860 September 2016 Information and Announcements
Science Academies' 83rd Refresher Course on Experimental Physics
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pp 861-861 September 2016 Information and Announcements
Science Academies' Summer Research Fellowship Programme for Students and Teachers - 2017
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pp 863-863 September 2016 Flowering Trees
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