Published by the interdisciplinary design studio MODU, this reader explores the space between the interior and the exterior. How does the design of interior spaces align with an urban world and vice versa? Where can the boundaries between the interior and the urban be drawn? What role does the environment play in this? For their research and design projects, Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem look at three major cities on different continents: New York, Rome, and Tokyo. MODU leaves behind the binary idea of inside and outside and rather understands architecture as an extension of the environment. Thus, it imagines a hybrid of urban space, architecture, and interior space. The book explores the different geographic locations and presents their own design projects.

This proceedings volume gathers a selection of papers presented at the Fifth International Conference on High Performance Scientific Computing, which took place in Hanoi on March 5-9, 2012. The conference was organized by the Institute of Mathematics of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR) of Heidelberg University, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, and the Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics. The contributions cover the broad interdisciplinary spectrum of scientific computing and present recent advances in theory, development of methods, and practical applications. Subjects covered include mathematical modeling; numerical simulation; methods for optimization and control; parallel computing; software development; and applications of scientific computing in physics, mechanics and biomechanics, material science, hydrology, chemistry, biology, biotechnology, medicine, sports, psychology, transport, logistics, communication networks, scheduling, industry, business and finance.

This proceedings volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on High Performance Scientific Computing held at the Hanoi Institute of Mathematics, Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), March 2-6, 2009. The conference was organized by the Hanoi Institute of Mathematics, the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), Heidelberg, and its Heidelberg Graduate School of Mathematical and Computational Methods for the Sciences, and Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology. The contributions cover the broad interdisciplinary spectrum of scientific computing and present recent advances in theory, development of methods, and applications in practice. Subjects covered are mathematical modelling, numerical simulation, methods for optimization and control, parallel computing, software development, applications of scientific computing in physics, mechanics, biology and medicine, engineering, hydrology problems, transport, communication networks, production scheduling, industrial and commercial problems.

This proceedings volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on High Performance Scientific Computing held at the Hanoi Institute of Mathematics, Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), March 2-6, 2009. The conference was organized by the Hanoi Institute of Mathematics, the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), Heidelberg, and its Heidelberg Graduate School of Mathematical and Computational Methods for the Sciences, and Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology. The contributions cover the broad interdisciplinary spectrum of scientific computing and present recent advances in theory, development of methods, and applications in practice. Subjects covered are mathematical modelling, numerical simulation, methods for optimization and control, parallel computing, software development, applications of scientific computing in physics, mechanics, biology and medicine, engineering, hydrology problems, transport, communication networks, production scheduling, industrial and commercial problems.

High Performance Scienti?c Computing is an interdisciplinary area that combines many ?elds such as mathematics, computer science and scienti?c and engineering applications. It is a key high-technology for competitiveness in industrialized countries as well as for speeding up development in emerging countries. High performance scienti?c computing develops methods for c- puteraidedsimulationandoptimizationofsystemsandprocesses.Inpractical applications in industry and commerce, science and engineering, it helps to save resources, to avoid pollution, to reduce risks and costs, to improve pr- uctquality,toshortendevelopmenttimesorsimplytooperatesystemsbetter. Di?erent aspects of scienti?c computing have been the topics of the Third International Conference on High Performance Scienti?c Computing held at the Hanoi Institute of Mathematics, Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), March 6-10, 2006. The conference has been organized by the Hanoi Institute of Mathematics, Ho Chi Minh City University of Te- nology, Interdisciplinary Center for Scienti?c Computing (IWR), Heidelberg, and its International PhD Program "Complex Processes: Modeling, Simu- tion and Optimization". The conference had about 200 participants from countries all over the world.Thescienti?cprogramconsistedofmorethan130talks,10ofthemwere invited plenary talks given by John Ball (Oxford), Vincenzo Capasso (Milan), PaoloCarloni(Trieste),SebastianEngell(Dortmund),DonaldGoldfarb(New York), Wolfgang Hackbusch (Leipzig), Satoru Iwata (Tokyo), Hans Petter Langtangen (Oslo), Tao Tang (Hong Kong) and Philippe Toint (Namur).

This proceedings volume contains a selection of papers presented at the symposium "International Conference on High Performance Scientific Computing'' held at the Hanoi Institute of Mathematics of the Vietnam National Center for Natural Science and Technology (NCST), March 10-14, 2003. The conference has been organized by the Hanoi Institute of Mathematics, SFB 359 ''Reactive Flows, Transport and Diffusion'', Heidelberg, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), Heidelberg. The contributions cover the broad interdisciplinary spectrum of scientific computing and present recent advances in theory, development of methods, and applications in practice. Subjects covered are mathematical modelling, numerical simulation, methods for optimization and optimal control, parallel computing, symbolic computing, software development, applications of scientific computing in physics, chemistry, biology and mechanics, environmental and hydrology problems, transport, logistics and site location, communication networks, production scheduling, industrial and commercial problems.

Tellurite resistance (TeR) determinat from uropathogenic strain Escherichia coli KL53 is harbored on conjugative plasmid pTE53, which consists of two clusters of ter genes. The first cluster of genes is responsible for the TeR terZABCDEF and protective region consists of terXYW. Only four genes terBCDE are essential for TeR and these genes were object of our study. The expression, purification and evaluation ATPase activity of the tellurite resistance operon is a part of our work. We have identified that C-terminus of these proteins is crucial for maintain of their function due to loss of original function after modification by His-tag. We established that protein TerC is membrane situated with 9 transmembrane domains and TerBDE are soluble cytosolic proteins.We have identified the dimer formation of TerB, TerD and TerE and interactions between TerD and TerE. The interaction between TerB and TerD/TerE were also detected. In the last part of this study we examined the response to oxidativ stress of TeR strains and strains harboring different part of TeR operon. We have also measured the total anitioxidant capacity of selected strains.