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JBCB Goes Beyond the Bioinformatics Community
Progress in the life sciences in the 21st Century requires an effective dialogue among researchers
in computing and in biology. The Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (JBCB)
was launched in March 2003 with the objective of sustaining such an effort.
Just a year in existence, JBCB is already one of the top-class journals in terms of quality. It has
published many high-quality contributions to sustain a healthy, rapid expansion of the new field.
These contributions include original research papers, expository tutorials, reviews, as well as
short critical comments on technical issues associated with the analysis of cellular information
and the use of such information for biomedicine.
We ensure efficiency in handling submitted papers. In the past year, the acceptance rate was
about 40%, and the review cycle was about two months. Currently we have about 40 submissions
in the review queue. Although the next two issues of JBCB are already full, we expect to be able
to publish all accepted papers within a year of acceptance.
However, we are not resting on our laurels. JBCB will continue to seek to publish the best work
in the field, include a range of research around bioinformatics and computational biology, (ranging
from computing science applied to biology), and work with a biological focus that utilises
computational tools. It will also strive to be a journal that is attractive and accessible to all who
live on the frontier between computing and biology, beyond simply the bioinformatics community
and include researchers extending from the quantitative science domain to that of experimental
biology.
Besides delivering the best papers in bioinformatics and computational biology in a timely way,
JBCB provides convenient and prompt access to such information electronically.
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CLASSICAL MECHANICS
by Tom W B Kibble & Frank H Berkshire (Imperial College London, UK)
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About the Authors
Tom W B Kibble
A senior research fellow and Emeritus Professor in the
Theoretical Physics Group within the Imperial College’s
Physics Department (the Blackett Laboratory), Prof.
Kibble’s research interests are in quantum field theory,
especially the interface between high-energy particle
physics and cosmology. He has worked on mechanisms
of symmetry breaking, phase transitions and the
topological defects (monopoles, cosmic strings or domain
walls) that can be formed.
Frank H Berkshire
The Director of Undergraduate Studies at Imperial
College, Dr. Berkshire’s research interests are in classical
mechanics and theoretical fluid mechanics and their applications to sport and gambling.
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 This is the fifth edition of a well-established textbook. It is intended to provide a
thorough coverage of the fundamental principles and techniques of classical
mechanics, an old subject that is at the base of all of physics, but has witnessed
rapid development in recent years.
The new edition retains all the main features of the fourth edition, including the
two chapters on geometry of dynamical systems and on order and chaos, and the
new appendices on conics and on dynamical systems near a critical point. The
materials have been somewhat expanded, in particular
to contrast continuous and discrete behaviours. A
further appendix has been added on routes to chaos
(period-doubling) and related discrete maps. The book
has also been revised to include detailed examples.
Aimed at undergraduate students of physics and
applied mathematics, the book emphasises the basic
principles, but progresses rapidly to handle interesting
problems, without getting bogged down in excessive
formalism. For example, Lagrangian methods are
introduced at a relatively early stage to get students
to appreciate their use in simple contexts. Lagrangian
and Hamiltonian methods are then used extensively
subsequently, but in a way that is accessible to
undergraduates, without sacrificing appropriate details
on modern developments.
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