Chambers biology dictionary

Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

specific organism. I found this text highly informative and uniquely comprehensive. In a fortuitous twist of fate, a copy of Stedman's Concise Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions arrived at my doorstep the very same day I began this review. This got me thinking about different approaches that I have used to find specific information during my education. In high school, all of the voca...

Aristotle to Zoos. A Philosophical Dictionary of Biology

The Medawars explain that their "philosophical dictionary of biology" is in spirit the biological companion to Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary. At times the wit, insight, and humanism in these brief essays meet the challenge. At other times, however, the dictionary format constrains the authors to writing long definitions. The Medawars preface this book by suggesting that it is intended for...

Dictionaries, Dictionary Grammars and Dictionary Entry Parsing

We identify two complementary p.ro.cesses in. the conversion of machine-readable dmUonanes into lexical databases: recovery of the dictionary structure from the typographical markings which persist on the dictionary distribution tapes and embody the publishers' notational conventions; followed by making explicit all of the codified and ellided information packed into individual entries. We disc...

Leak Checking Large Vacuum Chambers

Research Statement for Erin Chambers

Computational topology is an exciting new area which is emerging at the intersection of theoretical computer science and mathematics. Algorithmic techniques in topology are far from new, but the increasing use of computational geometry in many disciplines has led to an explosion of new results in both computer science and mathematics. There is currently great demand for algorithms which can mak...