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Issue 1 (March 1999) pages 1-8

Shu-Kun Lin
Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI), Saengergasse 25, CH-4054 Basel, Switzerland. Tel. +41 79 322 3379; Fax +41 61 302 8918 (lin@mdpi.org) and Post Office Box 71, MDPI-USA, Storrs, CT 06268, USA
Editorial: Diversity and Entropy
Entropy 1999, 1, 1-3 (Full text in PDF form, 10K; HTML format)
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István Kolossváry^1,2
1 Department of Chemical Information Technology, Technical University of Budapest, Szt. Gellért tér 4, Budapest, H-1111, Hungary. E-mail: Kolos@dumbo.inc.bme.hu
² Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research, 556 Morris Ave, Summit, NJ 07901, USA. Tel. +1-908-277-7129, Fax +1-908-277-4910, E-mail: Istvan.Kolossvary@Pharma.Novartis.com
Communication: On the Sign of Local Temperature in Molecules
Entropy 1999, 1, 4-8 (Full text in PDF form, 30K)

Georgi P. Gladyshev
Academy of Creative Endeavors, 36, Novy Arbat, Moscow, 121205, Russia E-mail: academy@endeav.org
On Thermodynamics, Entropy and Evolution of Biological Systems: What Is Life from a Physical Chemist's Viewpoint
Entropy 1999, 1, 9-20 (Full text in PDF form, 55K)
Publication cost donated

D. V. Gokhale
Department of Statistics, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA. Tel. (909) 787-3775, Fax (909)787-3286 (Attn. Prof. Gokhale), E-mail: dvgres@ucrac1.ucr.edu
On Joint and Conditional Entropies
Entropy 1999, 1, 21-24 (Full text in PDF form, 14K)

Vasili Tatarin¹* and Oleg Borodiouk^2
1 38 Vitovskogo str., apt.30, Lviv, 290012, Ukraine. Phone (+380) 322 724954, Fax (+380) 322 631565, E-mail: vasya@link.lviv.ua, URL http://www.lviv.ua/~vasya/personal.html,
² 43 Volodimira Velikogo str., apt. 75, Lviv, 290053, Ukraine. Phone (+380) 322 337815, E-mail: oleg@mak.lviv.ua
Entropy Calculation of Reversible Mixing of Ideal Gases Shows Absence of Gibbs Paradox
Entropy 1999, 1, 25-36 (Full text in PDF form, 41K)

Rajendra G. Kulkarni¹, Roger R. Stough²  and Kingsley E. Haynes^3
1Corresponding Author, Research Instructor, Mason Enterprise Center, The Institute of Public Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA, Tel.: 703-993-3177, Fax: 703-993-2284, E-mail: rkulkarn@gmu.edu
² NOVA Endowed Chair, Eminent Scholar and Professor of Public Policy, Director, Mason Enterprise Center, The Institute of Public Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA
³ Director, The Institute of Public Policy, University Professor/Eminent Scholar, Professor of Decision Sciences, Geography and Public Affairs, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA
Towards an Information Entropy Model of Job Approval Rating: The Clinton Presidency
Entropy 1999, 1, 37-49 (Full text in PDF form, 77K)

Yu. S. Lipatov
Book Review: Molecular, Quantum and Evolution Thermodynamics: Development and Specialization of the Gibbs Method. By E. S. Rudakov. Donetsk State University Press, Donetsk (Ukraine). 1998, 139 pp, in Russian. ISBN 966-02-0708-5.
Entropy 1999, 1, 50-52 (Full text in PDF form, 10K; HTML format)

Shu-Kun Lin
Book Review: Symmetry in Science: An Introduction to the General Theory. By Joseph Rosen (E-mail rosen@mail.uca.edu, University of Central Arkansas). Springer Verlag: New York. 1996. 234pp. $29.95. ISBN 0-387-94836-8.
Entropy 1999, 1, 53-54 (Full text in PDF form, 6K; HTML format)
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Georgi P. Gladyshev
Academy of Creative Endeavors, 36, Novy Arbat, Moscow, 121205, Russia E-mail: academy@endeav.org
Thermodynamic Theory of Biological Evolution and Aging. Experimental Confirmation of Theory
Entropy 1999, 1, 55-68 (Full text in PDF form, 201K)
Publication cost donated

David R. Wolf
PO Box 8308, Austin, TX 78713-8308, USA. E-mail: drwolf@realtime.net
A Bayesian Reflection on Surfaces
Entropy 1999, 1, 69-98 (Full text in PDF form, 269K)

Carlos Alberto de Bragança Pereira* and Julio Michael Stern
Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, Universidade de São Paulo, 05315-970, Brasil
E-mail: cpereira@ime.usp.br; jstern@ime.usp.br
Evidence and Credibility: Full Bayesian Significance Test for Precise Hypotheses
Entropy 1999, 1, 99-110 (Full text in PDF form, 82K)

José C. Iñiguez
Centro de Investigación en Termodinámica y Fenómenos Auto-Organizativos, CITER, Av. Panameri-cana 357, Agua Prieta Sonora, México 84200, Mexico. E-mail: iniguez@c2i2.com
A Revision of Clausius Work on the Second Law. 1. On the Lack of Inner Consistency of Clausius Analysis Leading to the Law of Increasing Entropy
Entropy 1999, 1, 111-117 (Full text in PDF form, 27K)

José C. Iñiguez
Centro de Investigación en Termodinámica y Fenómenos Auto-Organizativos, CITER, Av. Panameri-cana 357, Agua Prieta Sonora, México 84200, Mexico. E-mail: iniguez@c2i2.com
A Revision of Clausius Work On the Second Law. 2. On the Values of Clausius Transformations
Entropy 1999, 1, 118-125 (Full text in PDF form, 38K)

José C. Iñiguez
Centro de Investigación en Termodinámica y Fenómenos Auto-Organizativos, CITER, Av. Panameri-cana 357, Agua Prieta Sonora, México 84200, Mexico. E-mail: iniguez@c2i2.com
A Revision of Clausius Work on the Second Law. 3. On the Non-Zero Net Value of Carnot’s Reversible Cycle
Entropy 1999, 1, 126-137 (Full text in PDF form, 55K)

José C. Iñiguez
Centro de Investigación en Termodinámica y Fenómenos Auto-Organizativos, CITER, Av. Panameri-cana 357, Agua Prieta Sonora, México 84200, Mexico. E-mail: iniguez@c2i2.com
A Revision of Clausius Work on the Second Law. 4. On the Refutal of Clausius Proof
Entropy 1999, 1, 138-147 (Full text in PDF form, 40K)

Shu-Kun Lin
Book Review: Modern Thermodynamics: From Heat Engines to Dissipative Structures. By Dilip Kondepudi (Wake Forest University) and Ilya Prigogine (University of Texas at Austin). Wiley: Chichester, UK. 1998. 486pp. $47.95. ISBN 0-471-97394-7.
Entropy 1999, 1,148-149 (Full text in PDF form, 24K; HTML format)
Publication cost donated