REPORT ON THE 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MONITORING, SIMULATION, PREVENTION AND REMEDIATION OF DENSE AND DEBRIS FLOWS - DEBRIS FLOW 2012

Report on the 4th International Conference on monitoring, simulation, prevention and remediation of dense and debris flows - Debris Flow 2012

Debris and hyper-concentrated flows are amongst the most destructive of all water-related disasters.These hazards are likely to become more frequent and more important in the future due to the effects of the increase in population, urbanization, land subsidence and the impact of climate change.They affect both rural and urban environments, particul

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Autocatalytic sets and chemical organizations: modeling self-sustaining reaction networks at the origin of life

Two related but somewhat different approaches have been proposed to formalize the notion of a self-sustaining chemical reaction network.One is the notion of collectively autocatalytic sets, formalized as RAF theory, and the other is chemical organization theory.Both formalisms have been argued to be relevant to the origin of life.RAF sets and chemi

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